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JOB: Digital Resources Librarian, University of Mary Washington

Oct

6

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Resources Librarian works collaboratively with the Head of Special Collections and Archives to create, maintain, and promote UMW Libraries’ digital collections and services, including creating policies and usage guidelines, planning and implementing workflows, and overseeing quality control. Under the supervision of the Head of Special Collections and Archives, this librarian ...

JOB: Cuban Heritage Coordinator (Library Coordinator 2), University of Florida

Oct

6

2016

From the announcement: The Cuban Heritage Coordinator supports the collections and services of the George A. Smathers Libraries’ Latin American and Caribbean Collection and its national and international partnerships by documenting and digitizing Cuban heritage materials and contributing to other preeminent initiatives. The position is part of the Department of Special and Area Studies Collections ...

RECOMMENDED: “What is an edition anyway?”

Sep

29

2016

Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) has posted text and slides from her keynote at the Digital Scholarly Editions as Interfaces conference at the University of Graz. In her talk, “What is an edition anyway?” Porter offers a broader view of the conversation surrounding digital scholarly editions and their possibilities as interfaces. Electronic and digital editions ...

PROJECT: CWRC / CSÉC (Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory / Le Collaboratoire scientifique des écrits du Canada)

Sep

29

2016

Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) wrote about the launch of The Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) / Le Collaboratoire scientifique des écrits du Canada (CSÉC), describing CWRC / CSÉC’s support for various digital scholarly editing projects and acknowledging CWRC Project Leader Susan Brown’s role in conceptualizing and managing the effort: The Collaboratory is a distributed editing ...

CFP: DH2017- Access/Accès, Montreal

Sep

29

2016

The organizers of Digital Humanities 2017 (DH2017), the annual international conference hosted by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, have issued a call for papers (available in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish). The conference will be held August 8 – 11 in Montreal, Canada, with the theme of “Access/Accès”; the theme “underscores the conference organizers’ commitment to ...

CFParticipation: Digital Activities and Preservation Trends at Small and Mid-sized Institutions Survey

Sep

29

2016

The Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) has issued a call for participation in their survey, “Digital Activities and Preservation Trends at Small and Mid-sized Institutions.” The survey, aimed towards collecting information “about the digital activities, equipment, and training at organizations with historic collections and permanent records” is aimed towards “small or mid-sized public libraries, historical societies, municipal offices, academic ...

JOB: Head of Scholars’ Lab Graduate Programs, University of Virginia Library

Sep

29

2016

From the announcement: “We build up people and practices more than products.” That’s part of our charter, and the Head of Graduate Programs is essential to this mission. We in the Scholars’ Lab and University of Virginia Library are thrilled to alert you to the new job posting https://jobs.virginia.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=80148 As the description on the University ...

JOB: National Digital Stewardship Resident, Various Institutions (5 positions)

Sep

29

2016

From the announcement: The National Digital Stewardship Residency (NDSR) is a collaborative field experience program developed by The Library of Congress Office of Strategic Initiatives and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The program aims to develop a community of professionals in the dynamic fields of digital stewardship and (biodiversity) informatics. This resident ...

POST: Whither TEI? The Next Thirty Years

Sep

22

2016

Just in time for the Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Inititative (TEI) Consortium slated to begin next week in Vienna, Martin Mueller (Northwestern University) has written “Whither TEI? The Next Thirty Years,” in which he takes “a critical look at the TEI, focusing on shortcomings and on what should be done if the TEI ...

RESOURCE: Annotran, an Open-Source Translation Tool Based on Hypothesis

Sep

22

2016

The Open Library of the Humanities has announced Annotran, an open-source translation tool based on the Hypothes.is web annotation tool. Just as hypothes.is allows users to collaboratively annotate the web, Annotran will facilitate collaborative translation of webpages. Annotran was developed by Marija Katic and Martin Paul Eve in the Centre for Technology and Publishing at ...

RESOURCE: Software Citation Principles

Sep

22

2016

A new article by Arfon M. Smith (GitHub, Inc.), Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kyle E. Niemeyer (Oregon State University), and the FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group posted on PeerJ lays out six priciples of software citation, arguing that “software should be cited on the same basis as any other research product.” ...