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CFP: ‘Lives of Data’ Workshop

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28

2016

From the call for the Lives of Data Workshop, to be held January 6-7, 2017, at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi : The key questions which the workshop will explore are: What is data? How is it imagined, collected, archived, developed, scraped, parsed, mined, cleaned, used, interpreted, re-produced, circulated and deleted? How ...

CFP: LITA @ ALA Annual 2017

Jul

28

2016

From the call: The LITA Program Planning Committee (PPC) is now accepting innovative and creative proposals for the 2017 Annual American Library Association Conference. We’re looking for full or half day pre-conference ideas as well as 60- and 90-minute conference presentations. The focus should be on technology in libraries, whether that’s use of, new ideas ...

JOB: Digital Production Editor, New York University Libraries

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: This position will work on a grant-funded project to create richly tagged online publications. Reporting to the project manager for the Enhanced Networked Monographs project, this position will have several components: work with a software developer and the project team to refine a set of terms from a large set of digital ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer – Boston College

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: This Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer advances digital humanities by providing research services, technical support, and project management assistance, focusing on applications in the humanities, as well as providing liaison services for the History Department. S/he maintains knowledge and practical expertise in an evolving interdisciplinary landscape of digital humanities tools and methods. S/he works with ...

JOB: Humanities Librarian for the Fine Arts – University of Texas Libraries, Austin

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: Purpose of position: Provide strategic approaches to selection, teaching, discovery, and delivery of digital and print information resources and research life cycle support for Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts’ various design centers, Bridging Disciplines Program in Digital Arts and Media, and other disciplines. Essential functions: Provide reference ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship and Repository Analyst – University of Connecticut

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: The University of Connecticut Digital Scholarship and Data Curation unit, along with Greenhouse Studios at the University of Connecticut seeks an experienced web developer to serve as Digital Scholarship and Repository Analyst in a full-time role at UConn’s Storrs campus. An innovative and fast-moving collaboration between the University Library, UConn’s School of ...

We’re Looking for dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Fall 2016

Jul

27

2016

The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for editors-at-large for Fall 2016. Sign up for a shift today! dh+lib Review posts appear on the dh+lib homepage, in a weekly newsletter sent to the ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group listserv, and in our Twitter ...

RECOMMENDED: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016

Jul

21

2016

Editors Matthew K. Gold (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Lauren F. Klein (Georgia Institute of Technology) have released the revised edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities. Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a ...

RECOMMENDED: Hacking heritage: power and participation in digital cultural collections

Jul

21

2016

Tim Sherratt (University of Canberra) published a post on his Discontents blog entitled “Hacking heritage: power and participation in digital cultural collections,” detailing a project he shared at the DigitalGLAM Symposium on July 15 2016 in Melbourne. In order to make the Pre-1980 materials in the Australian Government’s ParlInfo Database more readable and usable, Sherratt quickly developed a tool, Historic ...

RESOURCE: DLF Code of Conduct

Jul

21

2016

The Digital Library Foundation (DLF) has released a revised code of conduct in advance of the 2016 DLF Forum in Milwaukee. The code applies to the Forum as well as other DLF in-person events. Revisions to the code of conduct were undertaken with the goal of making the Digital Library Federation “a welcoming organization and the focal point for a digital ...

CFP: International Digital Humanities Symposium (Växjö, Sweden)

Jul

21

2016

From the call: Recent developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and interactive applications are creating new social tools and conditions for people to connect and interact; therefore changing the ways we communicate, socialize and collaborate. These new forms of digital enhanced communication and collaboration have been rapidly adopted and integrated into people’s everyday lives. ...