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ANNOUNCEMENT: Digital Humanities Awards 2016

Mar

2

2017

The Nominations Committee for the Digital Humanities Awards has announced the results for 2016. Over 1700 ballots were submitted this year, for categories such as “Best Use of DH for Fun” and “Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools.” Among the winners were: The Programming Historian (Best DH Blog Post or Series of Posts) ToposText ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Kentucky

Mar

2

2017

From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of Digital Scholarship, the Digital Humanities Librarian will explore and promote new models for digital publishing, participate in research data management initiatives, and serve as a resource person for scholarly communication issues. Responsibilities will include working collaboratively with colleagues throughout UK Libraries and the campus to advance the ...

JOB: Digital Curator, Texas Women’s University

Mar

2

2017

From the announcement: The Digital Curator provides highly responsible data curation and management of digital resources to include preservation and curation research and development activities and initiatives. Creates digital collections, enables discovery and retrieval, and promotes and preserves. The Digital Curator is responsible for the oversight and management of the Libraries content management system. Writes ...

POST: Assembling the Whole: An Interview with Librarian|Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf

Feb

23

2017

Jamie Mears (Library of Congress) has posted an interview with Oliver Baez Bendorf on LOC blog, The Signal. The post, entitled “Assembling the Whole: An Interview with Librarian|Artist Oliver Baez Bendorf,” focuses on the poster series Bendorf created for the Library of Congress, inspired by LOC’s Collections as Data summit this past fall. I was ...

POST: what do digitized first folios do for us?

Feb

23

2017

Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) has written a post, “what do digitized first folios do for us?,” detailing her piece in The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s First Folio. Werner’s post and her piece in the Companion highlight why first folios are digitized, the complexities of the digitization process, and questions about access to the digitized material. We ...

RESOURCE: On a Collections as Data Imperative

Feb

23

2017

The Library of Congress has published “On a Collections as Data Imperative” by Thomas Padilla (UC Santa Barbara). The article focuses on rethinking and reframing collections as data, which then opens up “potential of a collections as data imperative”: To see collections as data begins with reframing all digital objects as data. Data are defined ...

RESOURCE: Scholarly journal publishing in transition– from restricted to open access

Feb

23

2017

Bo-Christer Björk (Hanken School of Economics) has self-archived his article, “Scholarly journal publishing in transition– from restricted to open access,” published in Electronic Markets, The International Journal on Networked Business. From the abstract: Electronic delivery has become the norm, but the same publishers as before are still dominating the market, selling content to subscribers. This ...

CFP: Women’s History in the Digital World

Feb

23

2017

The organizers for the Women’s History in the Digital World conference have released a call for papers. The conference, to be held at Maynooth University in Ireland July 6-7, “brings together historians, archivists, curators, digital humanists and more to present on their work, network and collaborate on current and future projects at the intersection of ...

OPPORTUNITY: Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship

Feb

23

2017

The Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) is accepting proposals from project teams for the 2017 institute, to be held July 30-August 4 at the College of Wooster. At ILiADS, ideas grow through collaborative, iterative processes. During this week of digital immersion, teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students are ...

JOB: Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, Boston College

Feb

23

2017

From the announcement: Boston College Libraries seek a Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian to guide digital preservation and digital archiving activities for an increasing amount of born-digital and digitized content. Working closely with the Head of the Digital Library Program and in concert with team members and professionals across the libraries, he or she will ...

JOB: Assistant Head and Digital Technologies Development Librarian, Harvard University

Feb

23

2017

From the announcement: The Assistant Head and Digital Technologies Development Librarian will report to the Head Librarian of the John G. Wolbach Library, located at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (CfA). Responsibilities will include: Digital Technologies Support S/he will provide technical leadership and hands-on programming expertise for digital library projects; identifying emerging technologies that have ...