RESOURCE: Developing Library GIS Services for Humanities and Social Science: An Action Research Approach

Ningning Kong, Michael Fosmire, and Benjamin Dewayne Branch (all Purdue University) have released a pre-print of their article, “Developing Library GIS Services for Humanities and Social Science: An Action Research Approach” through College & Research Libraries. Kong, Fosmire, and Branch’s article establishes a research framework for academic libraries to develop GIS services. In the academic ...

CFP: Special Issue of DHQ: French-language Digital Humanities

Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a call for proposals for a special issue of the journal, highlighting digital humanities work in French. According to this CFP, this issue “is the second of several planned for DHQ in different languages or regional traditions,” following DHQ‘s call for submissions for a Spanish-language special issue last fall. Submissions ...

CFP: The Caribbean Digital III

Small Axe Project (Columbia University) has issued a call for papers for The Caribbean Digital III, to be held 2 December 2016 at Barnard College / Columbia University. Suggestion submission topics include: the transatlantic, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary possibilities and limitations of digital technologies in the Caribbean metaphorical linkages between the digital and such Caribbean philosophical, ...

JOB: Senior Grant Program Specialist, Institute of Museum and Library Services

From the announcement: This is the position of Senior Grant Program Specialist with responsibility for priorities within the national digital platform portfolio development within the Office of Library Services and common applications across the agency.  Incumbent provides expert advice on significant aspects of digital infrastructure, services and policy matters, including issues relating to research, practice, and ...

JOB: Head, Digital Services Unit – Library Information Technology, Georgetown University

From the announcement: The Unit Head, Digital Services coordinates the planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, expansion and communication/outreach of the digital collections/projects, digital services, and institutional repository services, collections and content, including the design, deployment and maintenance of digital services and platforms which includes DigitalGeorgetown and related digital tool sets, representations of digital content, digital conversion, ...

CFParticipation: 2016 DLF Forum

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) issued calls for proposals for the 2016 DLF Forum, the DLF Liberal Arts Pre-Conference and the Digital Preservation 2016 and the annual conference of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) in this central site. The Forum traditionally has no set theme so that it may speak to matters of interest ...

JOB: Digital Collections Librarian, Swarthmore College

From the announcement: As a member of the Digital Initiatives and Scholarship Department, the Digital Collections Librarian will provide strategic and innovative leadership for the burgeoning digital asset management and preservation program of the Swarthmore College Libraries. The Digital Collections Librarian will be responsible for the planning, operations, and management of this program, and will ...

JOB: Digital Processing Archivist, Computer History Museum

From the announcement: The Digital Processing Archivist will have primary responsibility for processing and reading the Museum’s digital collection with an emphasis on historic software objects. Tasks include arranging, describing, and making accessible new and legacy digital objects, ingesting content into the digital repository, and monitoring internal digital workflows. The Archivist will work closely with ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Humanities is What You Can Do with It: Going Beyond Digitization in Special Collections

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) is offering a workshop as part of their annual preconference titled “Digital Humanities is What You Can Do with It: Going Beyond Digitization in Special Collections.” Led by Suzan Alteri, Chelsea Dinsmore, Richard Freeman, Jessica Marcetti, Daniel Reboussin, Laurie Taylor (University of Florida, Gainesville). By adding value to digital ...

POST: Building a Static Website with Jekyll and GitHub Pages

Amanda Visconti (Purdue University) published a lesson that outlines how to build a static webpage with Jekyll and GitHub Pages along with a robust explanation about the benefits of learning to construct static sites (and what they are in contrast to dynamic sites), understanding Jeykll, and engaging with GitHub. Visconti links to excellent documentation across the ...

POST: RightsStatements.org

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and Europeana announced the launch of RightsStatements.org, “a collaborative approach to rights statements that can be used to communicate the copyright status of cultural objects”: In this cooperative effort, we have built a flexible system of rights statements that allows our contributing cultural heritage partners, who hold the ...