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OPPORTUNITY: 2018 DLF + DHSI Tuition Awards

Feb

8

2018

DLF is now accepting applications for their DLF-DHSI Cross-Pollinator tuition fellowships to participate in the the 2018 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) in Victoria, British Columbia. Participants from DLF member institutions are eligible for the award. The application requests the following information: contact information brief, one-paragraph bio a one-paragraph statement about how attending DHSI might expand your professional horizons, what you ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Fellow at University of Cincinnati

Feb

8

2018

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Center of the University of Cincinnati invites applicants to apply for our Digital Scholarship Library Fellow. Successful candidates should have digital scholarship skills built on their training in librarianship, digital humanities, or informatics, and will contribute to the development and deepening of transdisciplinary digital scholarship work across the university. ...

JOB: Director for Teaching, Learning & Digital Scholarship

Feb

8

2018

From the announcement: Reporting to the Dean of BLAIS, the Director for Teaching, Learning & Digital Scholarship is a new position dedicated to leading and shaping the instruction and liaison program and agenda in the Barnard Library. The Director coordinates the Personal Librarian program, a liaison program designed to create unique, specialized services for students and ...

PROJECT: Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade

Feb

1

2018

Matrix: The Center for Digital Humanities & Social Sciences at Michigan State University has just announced Enslaved: People of the Historic Slave Trade, a “constellation of software and services built to address the challenges of connecting archives, databases, and collections that record the histories of slavery and enslaved peoples.” Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon ...

RESOURCE: Metrics Toolkit

Feb

1

2018

Robin Champieux (Oregon Health and Science University), Heather Coates (IUPUI), and Stacy Konkiel (Altmetric) have released a Metrics Toolkit for understanding “what a [scholarly] metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s a good match for your research question.” Champieux, Coates, and Konikel describe the purpose of the toolkit: We developed the Metrics Toolkit ...

RESOURCE: A Digital Humanities Reading List: Part 1

Feb

1

2018

LIBER’s Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group has just released its first installment of “must-read papers, articles and reports.” The first theme focuses on policies and portfolios and includes Stewart Varner (UPenn) and Patricia Hswe’s (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) article about DH in libraries and Bethany Nowviskie’s (DLF) “Skunks in the Library: A ...

RESOURCE: Digital Scholarship Resource Guide: Text Analysis

Feb

1

2018

Samantha Herron, a 2017 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress, has written a post on The Signal detailing common forms of textual analysis. Herron describes techniques such as stylometry, “the practice of using linguistic study to attribute authorship to an anonymous text,” and topic modeling. Her summary also includes examples of tools like Voyant, ...

RESOURCE: Format Aside: Applying Beall’s Criteria to Assess the Predatory Nature of both OA and Non-OA Library and Information Science Journals

Feb

1

2018

The Idealis recently featured a College and Research Libraries article by Texas A&M librarians Joseph D. Olivarez, Stephen Bales, Laura Sare, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, that examines Jeffrey Beall’s criteria in determining if a publication is predatory. From the abstract: Jeffrey Beall’s blog listing of potential predatory journals and publishers, as well as his Criteria for Determining ...

CFP: Project Briefing Proposals

Feb

1

2018

The CNI Spring 2018 Membership Meeting welcomes project briefing proposals for its April 2018 event. Project briefings address: the state-of-the-art developments and issues of interest to the membership, as outlined in each year’s Program Plan. Management of data, digital content, and institutional information resources, digital preservation, innovations in teaching and learning, and infrastructure to support ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Scholarship Summer Internship

Feb

1

2018

dSHARP, Carnegie Mellon University’s digital scholarship center, is offering an eight-week paid summer internship for those interested in working on pre-existing projects. From the announcement: The Summer Intern will be expected to work on two to four pre-existing projects during their tenure, with the projects determined based on how their skills and interests best match ...

JOB: Social Sciences and Data Librarian, San Diego State University

Feb

1

2018

From the announcement: San Diego State University Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Social Sciences and Data Librarian. The Social Sciences and Data Librarian will provide outreach, research consultation, and library instruction in social science disciplines. The incumbent will support research data services ...