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POST: Three-Dimensional Science Fiction: Visualizing IF Magazine Covers (1952-1974)

Mar

3

2016

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University Libraries) has written a post on visualizing two-dimensional images in three-dimensional space using cover images from the IF Magazine archive as a dataset. The tutorial walks users through gathering a dataset of images, preparing them for visualization, and using ImageJ to explore the images in three-dimensional space. Padilla details the various tools and commands necessary ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Research Coordinator, Penn State University Libraries

Mar

3

2016

From the announcement: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seeks creative, forward-thinking individuals to apply for the full-time, three-year appointment as Digital Scholarship Research Coordinator. This faculty librarian will play a critical role in project and service development to strengthen digital scholarship at Penn State. The successful candidate will be conversant with a variety of pertinent ...

JOB: Digital Asset Librarian, Philadelphia Museum of Art

Mar

3

2016

From the announcement: The Philadelphia Museum of Art is currently seeking a Digital Asset Librarian to activate and expand access to our world-class art collections and the digital media that is produced from them. Working under the general direction of the Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives and in close collaboration with the Information ...

JOB: Data Visualization Specialist, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mar

3

2016

From the announcement: The Georgia Tech Library is looking for a Data Visualization specialist to join our team! This individual should be knowledgeable, creative, and resourceful as they will have the exciting opportunity to take the lead role in defining, developing, implementing and managing data and visualization services on behalf of the Library. Applicants for ...

JOB: Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion, Pepperdine University

Mar

3

2016

From the announcement: The Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation and Conversion plays a leading role in the presentation of Pepperdine’s unique collections and scholarly output to the world. The Librarian works closely with special collections and university archives personnel to identify, research, and prioritize materials for ingest into digital collections, which are powered by CONTENTdm. ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Administrator, Indiana University-Purdue University

Mar

3

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Administrator is responsible for the planning, administrative management, implementation, creation and maintenance of access and discovery portals (Web sites), and monitoring of the library’s digital initiatives and university digital archives. Including the development and implementation of policies and procedures related to the acquisition, arrangement, description, and processing of materials ...

POST: Introducing Documenting the Now

Feb

25

2016

Ed Summers (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) wrote a post explaining the background and genesis of the Mellon-supported Documenting the Now project. Developed in partnership with Chris Freeland (Washington University in St. Louis) and Bergis Jules (University of California at Riverside), the project has two main goals: The first is to develop an ...

RESOURCE: New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations

Feb

25

2016

The February 2016 issue of The American Historian features an article by Frederick W. Gibbs (University of New Mexico), “New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations.” In it, Gibbs argues for a critical analysis of data visualizations that comes from beyond the boundaries of the digital humanities: Many of the visualizations briefly mentioned ...

RESOURCE: The Frontiers of DH: Humanities Systems Infrastructure

Feb

25

2016

Recordings from the University of Canterbury’s seminar, “The Frontiers of DH: Humanities Systems Infrastructure,” held November 12, 2015, are now available on YouTube. The seminar featured talks from Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara), Paul Arthur (Western Sydney University), and James Smithies (Kings College London), aimed to “start thinking about what humanities systems infrastructure is, what it ...

CFP: Building Capacity with Care: Graduate Students and DH Work in the Library

Feb

25

2016

The organizers of “Building Capacity with Care: Graduate Students and DH Work in Libraries,” a pre-conference workshop at the Digital Humanities 2016 conference (Kraków, 12-16 July 2016), have issued a call for participation. Led by workshop instructors Alan Pike (Emory University), Dawn Childress (University of California, Los Angeles), Smiljana Antonijevć (Pennsylvania State University), Jim McGrath (Brown ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Specialist, Bryn Mawr College

Feb

25

2016

From the announcement: The Library & Information Technology Services (LITS) department of Bryn Mawr College seeks a creative and innovative individual to serve in the new position of Digital Scholarship Specialist. The Digital Scholarship Specialist will work with faculty, students, and staff in the exploration, implementation, and assessment of multimodal digital scholarship. Key to the ...