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RESOURCE: Digital History & Argument White Paper

Nov

16

2017

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media published a white paper produced from the Arguing with Digital History Workshop earlier this fall. The paper was written collaboratively by workshop participants and edited by Stephen Robertson Lincoln Mullen (both at George Mason University). From the introduction: This white paper aims to help bridge the ...

CFP: Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives (NHPRC)

Nov

16

2017

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) seeks preliminary grant proposals to support projects that enable public discovery and use to major historical records. All types of historical records are eligible, including documents, photographs, born-digital records, and analog audio and moving images. Projects may: Digitize historical records collections, or related collections, held by a single ...

CFParticipation: NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grants

Nov

16

2017

The NEH Office of Digital Humanities has opened submissions for the 2018 Digital Humanities Advancement Grants. Digital Humanities Advancement Grants may involve: creating or enhancing experimental, computationally-based methods, techniques, or infrastructure that contribute to the humanities; pursuing scholarship that examines the history, criticism, and philosophy of digital culture and its impact on society, or explores the philosophical ...

JOB: Digital Archivist & Institutional Repository Librarian, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Nov

16

2017

From the posting, the person in this position: Manages, plans, and develops WPI library’s digital archives and institutional repository, including collections of faculty and student scholarship, digital cultural and data collections, digital exhibits, and digital publishing systems and services. Collaboratively determines user functions, interfaces, and services for digital archives and repositories, partnering closely with WPI’s Information Technology ...

JOB: Digital Archivist, Davidson College

Nov

16

2017

From the posting, this person will partner with the Special Collections Librarian, the Project Archivist for Justice, Equality, and Community, the College Archivist, and other members of the library staff to preserve and make accessible born-digital and digitized archival content. The Digital Archivist will lead the development and implementation of policies, standards, and procedures for ...

POST: Radical Speculation and Ursula K. Le Guin

Nov

9

2017

Issue 12 of Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology reimagines new media and technology in the works of science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin. The papers in the special issue were drawn from the December 2016 Tiptree Symposium at the University of Oregon, an event that celebrated Le Guin’s work. Editor ...

RESOURCE: Dissertation to Book? A Snapshot of Dissertations Published As Books in 2014 and 2015, Available in Open Access Institutional Repositories

Nov

9

2017

The Idealis has just featured “Dissertation to Book? A Snapshot of Dissertations Published As Books in 2014 and 2015, Available in Open Access Institutional Repositories” by Anna Marie Johnson, Tyler Goldberg, and Robert Detmering (all University of Louisville), published in the Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication. The authors found that: Only a small percentage ...

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium

Nov

9

2017

Michigan State University is hosting the third Global Digital Humanities Symposium on March 22–23, 2018. The organizers are currently accepting submissions, especially on the following topics: Critical cultural studies and analytics Cultural heritage in a range of contexts DH as socially engaged humanities and/or as a social movement Open data, open access, and data preservation ...

JOB: Open Access Specialist, Boston University

Nov

9

2017

From the posting, this position will: Assist in meeting the institutional repository (OpenBU) collection development and policy fulfillment needs of BU Libraries by selecting, gathering, and verifying BU-produced intellectual output and its corresponding metadata. Assist in maintaining the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the University’s master list of scholarly articles. Act as BU Libraries’ principal ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Archivist, MIT

Nov

9

2017

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Archivist will initiate new ways of engaging students, faculty and the community with digital archives, rare and special collections, and will promote and interpret archival, rare and unique collections through innovative and engaging digital exhibitions, educational programming, social media and other creative means. The Digital Scholarship Archivist will promote ...

RECOMMENDED: Experiencing the Bust

Nov

2

2017

Laura Mandell (Texas A&M) has posted “Experiencing the Bust,” a response to Timothy Brennan’s “Digital Humanities Bust,” the Chronicle of Higher Education article that caused a stir earlier this month. In it, Mandell asserts that “digital humanities is only busted if you expected it to be salvific,” noting that “it is the utopianists who deserve ...