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In October and November 2014, H-Soz-Kult publishes a series of essays on "The Status Quo of Digital Humanities in Europe". TABLE OF CONTENTS: Editorial: The Status Quo of Digital Humanities in Europe by Torsten Kahlert and Claudia Prinz, Humboldt-University of Berlin The Status Quo of Digital Humanities in Sweden: Past, Present and Future of Digital History by Thomas Nygren, HUMlab, Umeå University, Department of Education, Uppsala University and Department of History, Stanford University; Anna Foka, HUMlab, Umeå University; Philip I. Buckland, Department of Historical, Philosophical & Religious Studies, Umeå University From "Humanities and Computing" to "Digital Humanities": Digital Humanities in Portugal with a focus on Historical Research by Daniel Alves, Instituto de História Contemporânea, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa Digital Humanities in the Netherlands by Joris van Zundert, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Art; Karina van Dalen-Oskam, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands, Royal Netherlands Academy of Art and Sciences / University of Amsterdam The Status Quo of Digital Humanities in Greece by Helen Gardikas-Katsiadakis, Modern Greek History Research Centre, Academy of Athens The Past and Present of Digital Humanities: A View from Russia by Irina Garskova, Moscow Lomonosov State University Vernetzter Geist? Stand und Tendenzen der Digital Humanities in der Schweiz by Eliane Kurmann / Enrico Natale, infoclio.ch A historical perspective on the digital humanities in Spain by Paul Spence, Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London; Elena Gonzalez-Blanco, Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia The Slovenian Digital Humanities Landscape - A Brief Overview by Jurij Hadalin, Institute of Contemporary History, Ljubljana Some thoughts on Digital Humanities in Norway by Von Espen S. Ore, Dept. of Linguistics and Sca

Archive and collection presentations for scholars, museums and libraries from the Center for History and New Media - free, open source web-publishing platform. Can be used like a blog or to share collaborative work in digital scholarship. Used by Brown University's Center for Digital Scholarship

Drama in the Delta, Digitally Reenacting Civil Rights Performances at Arkansas' Wartime Camps for Japanese Americans 3D digital role-playing game reconstructing the 2 US concentration camps for Japanese Americans during World War II - players navigate two levels of racial segregation to experience rebellious performances from judo combat and blues music to kabuki plays and drag shows Project Directors: Dr. Emily Roxworthy (Theatre and Dance, University of California, San Diego) and Amit Chourasia (Head of Visualization Services Group, San Diego Supercomputer Center) Other universities involved: undergraduates from MIT and UC-SanDiego graduate students from UC-SanDiego historians from U Cincinnati, UVa, King's College (London), U Arkansas-LittleRock, UC-SanDiego

Kent State University's Research Center for Educational Technology site for K12 teachers, students and visitors to map out local history sites using wireless mobile devices and barcodes.

Mark Kornbluh and Douglas Oard interview - 81 mins

One of my earliest efforts at offering an open education resource - posted long before UK was offering electronic dissertations.

An interdisciplinary journal about regions, places, and cultures of the American South and their global connections Southern Spaces combines innovative scholarship about real and imagined spaces and places of the American South with the tools of digital media. Realizing that few scholars are experts in website design, we are eager to work with authors, photographers and videographers in the process of producing image, sound, and video files for submissions. We are committed to assisting scholars at varying levels of technological proficiency. If you are interested in submitting materials to Southern Spaces, please create a new account on the site and then follow the instructions for submitting. A submission will not be considered if it has have been previously published or is concurrently under consideration by another journal or press. Copyright for essays published in Southern Spaces is retained by the authors. All images, video, and sound files associated with published submissions are securely archived by Emory University's Woodruff Library. If you choose to submit by post, we accept flash drives, DV tapes, CDs, or DVDs containing your manuscript, images, sound files, etc.

Using textmining and mapping to visualize primary sources on the Civil War era in Richmond, VA via graphs, maps and models.