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JOB: Collections Data Archivist, UCLA Special Collections

Jul

21

2016

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head, Digital Initiatives for Special Collections/Co-head of Collection Management, the Collections Data Archivist (CDA) will oversee a project to enhance archives collection data management practices, workflows, and policies in LSC. The CDA will work in a highly collaborative manner with curatorial, professional, and technical staff in LSC to evaluate, ...

POSTS: “Seshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative” at Howard University

Jul

14

2016

Kenton Rambsy (University of Texas at Arlington) and Howard Rambsy II (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) have compiled a series of their blog entries “related to the intersections of black artistic culture, technology, DH, and African American literary studies” for the National Endowment for the Humanities project, “Seshat: A Howard University Digital Humanities Initiative” on Rambsy’s ...

POST: The Wartime Films Project: Taking a User-Centered Design Approach at NARA

Jul

14

2016

Jon Voss (Historypin) has written a post for NARAtions, the blog of the U.S. National Archives, the first in a series of blog posts aimed to go “behind the scenes to explore how the National Archives is taking a user-centered design approach toward engagement on a major digitization initiative of a unique collection of Wartime ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium

Jul

14

2016

Registration for the Digital Humanities + Data Journalism (DH+DJ) Symposium, sponsored by the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation, is now open. The symposium, which takes place September 29 through October 1 at the University of Miami, aims to bridge gaps between digital humanists and data journalists: Digital humanists and data journalists face common ...

JOB: Director of Digital Projects, MIT Libraries

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: The Director of Digital Projects will lead an MIT Libraries supported software development program and will develop partnerships with external academic and commercial collaborators to develop tools and platforms with a local and global impact on research, scholarly communications, education, and the preservation of information and ideas. Our goal is nothing short ...

JOB: Digital Projects & Metadata Librarian, American Philosophical Society

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: In this newly created position, the Library seeks a full-time member of the Technology Department to contribute to the planning, design, and development of digital projects using APS collections. As a member of a small team, the Digital Projects & Metadata Librarian will work closely with the Head of Technology to complete ...

JOB: Digital Technologies Librarian, Tulane University

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Technologies Librarian takes an innovative, service-centric approach to the oversight of several key information management and discovery systems (including Tulane’s implementations of Primo, Islandora, and ArchivesSpace). S/he will be responsible for ensuring the optimal performance of these systems, which will include: enabling data integration across distributed and heterogeneous local and ...

RECOMMENDED: Searching for a Blazing World

Jun

30

2016

In “Searching for a Blazing World,” Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) reflects on her recent plenary address at the Rare Books and Manuscript Section (RBMS) annual conference and revisits the issue of digital access to special collections. In the talk, Werner questioned how and why libraries decide what to digitize, and discussed the difficulties of locating and ...

POST: Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb

Jun

30

2016

Stephanie Kingsley (American Historical Association) has written a post recapping “Saving the Web: The Ethics and Challenges of Preserving What’s on the Internet,” the one-day symposium held at John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress earlier this month. “Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb” is a detailed and thoroughly referenced summary of ...

CFParticipation: Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries

Jun

30

2016

Library Juice Press has issued a call for participation for Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries, edited by Melissa Morrone (Brooklyn Public Library). Morrone is seeking participants willing to be interviewed for the book, which intends to “bring out specific critiques of technology as well as more inspiring aspects of what’s ...

POSTS: DH in China

Jun

30

2016

The China Policy Institute blog (University of Nottingham) featured six articles on digital humanities in China from June 3-13, 2016. As Lik Huang Tsui writes in his post: University libraries will likely become important focal points for developing digital scholarship in China. Researchers from various humanistic disciplines are aware as well that the digital humanities ...