Digital History

Rich corpus of sources concerning the nobility accessible online

In May 2019, the Mapping Early American Elections team "is making their final release of maps, data, and essays for this project." The project offers interactive maps and visualizations of Congressional elections from 1787 to 1825.

To learn more: http://earlyamericanelections.org/blog/2019/05/13/final-release.html

The website http://e-chartae.ch has launched, offering free access to all early medieval charters of the Abbey Archive of St. Gall. "This means that the only originally preserved monastery archive of the Merovingian and Carolingian periods is now completely available online." (https://twitter.com/textandbytes/status/1116441186095517697)

Description from the e-chartae website (https://www.e-chartae.ch/en/about):

First Biennial Innovation Award

The Library Company of Philadelphia

Call for Proposals

Earlier this month, the National Endowment for the Humanities announced the latest round of grant awards, and among them is a Virginia Tech-based digital project, 

Hi all!

The CFP for Digitorium 2019 has been extended until April 19, 2019. The full CFP can be found here. 

October 10-12, 2019
International Conference and Workshop at the GHI
Organized in collaboration with the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH)
Conveners: Andreas Fickers (C²DH), Gerben Zaagsma (C²DH), Simone Lässig (GHI), Jens Pohlmann (GHI), Daniel Burckhardt (GHI)

To learn more about the Venice Time Machine:

Josh Jones, "The Venice Time Machine: 1,000 Years of Venice’s History Gets Digitally Preserved with Artificial Intelligence and Big Data," Open Culture, March 27, 2019, http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/the-venice-time-machine.html

Venice Time Machine

"Kateryna Barnes and Kendra Cowley (University of Alberta) have developed “Unsettling Colonial Mapping: Sonic-Spatial Representations of amiskwaciwâskahikan,” a digital project exploring sonic landscapes of the University of Alberta. You can listen on Soundcloud here. 

CALL FOR PAPERS

Issue 7.2 DIGITAL ASIAS

Edited by Jonathan E. Abel (Penn State University) and Joseph Jonghyun Jeon (UC-Irvine)