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POST: Crisscrossing Borders: GO::DH Regional Networks in Dialogue

Jan

21

2016

Élika Ortega (University of Kansas) has shared a version of her talk at MLA2016, “Crisscrossing Borders: GO::DH Regional Networks in Dialogue,” in which she reflects on recent discussions about diversity in the digital humanities. Ortega provides “an ecology of knowledges in DH,” drawing attention to the situatedness of DH work as she explores the way ...

RESOURCE: DIY online exhibitions

Jan

21

2016

Tim Sherratt (University of Canberra) has written a post about an app he developed for creating online exhibits of items in Trove, the digital collections aggregator from the National Library of Australia. In “DIY online exhibitions,” Sherratt explains why he chose to focus on an app for working with collections data that are accessible through ...

CFP: Texas Conference on Digital Libraries / Texas Digital Humanities Consortium

Jan

21

2016

The Texas Digital Library is collaborating with the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium to co-host their annual conferences in 2016: The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (May 24-26, 2016) will be followed by a Texas Digital Humanities Consortium Mini-Conference (Mary 27, 2016) in Austin, Texas. The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries will feature Trevor Owens (Institute ...

CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference 2016

Jan

21

2016

The organizers of the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference (Pittsburgh, PA, June 22-24, 2016) have issued a call for proposals, due February 1, 2016. We encourage submissions on all aspects of using and/or studying digital computation within the interpretive context of the humanities, but especially on the role of communities of collaboration and faceted teamwork across ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, DePaul University

Jan

21

2016

From the announcement: Reporting to the Coordinator of Reference, Instruction, and Academic Engagement, the Digital Scholarship Librarian will provide leadership for the integration of digital tools, resources and methodologies with traditional resources and approaches to research, teaching and learning. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will collaborate with members of the Library Administration and with Coordinators of ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Ohio State University

Jan

21

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Librarian will establish and grow a dynamic, multifaceted program that addresses the growing demand for digital arts and humanities support on campus. Working with arts and humanities scholars, faculty and students, the Digital Humanities Librarian will foster successful adoption and application of digital arts and humanities approaches to research, ...

LES/DHIG Meetup at ALA Midwinter 2016

Jan

9

2016

Braving the cold at ALA Midwinter 2016? Interested in literature, Digital Humanities, or libraries? Join the Digital Humanities Interest Group and the Literatures in English Section of ACRL on Saturday, January 9, 6:00-8:00 PM for an informal meetup at Tap Trailhouse, 19 Union Street, Boston. Amanda Rust, Laura Braunstein, and Thomas Padilla will be there as organizers of the ...

POST: Why GLAM Wiki: Wikipedia & Galleries, Libraries, Archives, & Museums

Dec

17

2015

In a guest post at ACRLog entitled “Why GLAM Wiki: Wikipedia and Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums,” Siân Evans (Senior Implementation Manager at Artstor) describes her work with Art+Feminism, an organization dedicated to increasing the representation of cis and trans women in the arts on Wikipedia. From the post: Wikipedia edit-a-thons also provide a space in which ...

POST: Twisty Little Passages: The Franklin D. Roosevelt Master Speech File

Dec

17

2015

In response to the release of The Franklin D. Roosevelt Master Speech File, Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University Libraries) has put together a bulk data gathering and transformation workflow tutorial with that dataset as an example. Padilla meticulously documents the phases of the process and provides tips about the tools and commands at work in the scenario. The steps are: ...

RESOURCE: Traces of the Old, Uses of the New

Dec

17

2015

The University of Michigan’s digitalculturebooks has announced the publication of the third title in their Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism Series, Amy Earhart’s Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies. This title “stakes a claim for discipline-specific history of digital study as a necessary prelude to true progress in defining Digital ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Strategy Paid Summer Internship, National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum (2 positions)

Dec

17

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Strategy interns will assist with the ongoing project to make the Museum and Library’s unique collections available and searchable online. The interns, under the guidance of the Digital Strategy department, will focus on enhancing previously created metadata using a controlled vocabulary and schema. They will gain familiarity with Islandora, the ...