JOB: Senior Project Manager, Digital Library Services and NYPL Labs

From the announcement: At NYPL, we’re building a new kind of library that opens our vast collections to the public via responsive applications, linked data and APIs, and adventurous user engagement and crowdsourcing initiatives. In concert with digital leadership, and with NYPL’s expert community of curators, librarians, and data specialists, the Senior Project Manager will ...

JOB: Digital Projects Lab Manager, University of North Texas

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Unit supports the UNT Libraries with guidance and digital services including imaging, archival storage of electronic files, metadata development, and other activities as needed. Within the Unit, four full-time Digital Projects Lab staff members manage a large number of concurrent projects and employ 25 part-time student assistants to prepare ...

JOB: Web Archiving & Emerging Formats Librarian, Cornell University

From the announcement: Cornell University Library’s (CUL) Acquisitions and E-Resources Licensing Services (AERLS) within Library Technical Services (LTS) is seeking a Web Archiving and Emerging Formats Librarian. Under the general direction of the Director of AERLS, the position performs daily operations, including management and development of workflows and services in emerging areas of acquisitions and ...

CFP: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has announced its second international digital scholarship conference: “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Public Scholarship,” which will take place on November 6-8, 2015. The theme for this year’s conference is “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Public Scholarship.” We encourage presentations that highlight forms of collaboration: between institutions of ...

RECOMMENDED: The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms

David Weinberger‘s Shorenstein Center fellowship paper, “The Rise, Fall, and Possible Rise of Open News Platforms: The Twisty Path towards a Net Ecosystem That Makes News More Discoverable, Reusable, and Relevant,” was released this week. The paper details the open APIs developed by The Guardian, The New York Times, and NPR, and how the usage and ...

POST: Down the Rabbit Hole

In “Down the Rabbit Hole,” Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) links his search for the source behind a map he’d seen in a tweet (and the resulting difficulties and dead-ends) to the work of the Viral Texts project. Weingart draws similarities between 19th century newspaper citations and (the failures of) modern-day citation practice online. A single snippet of ...

POST: Towards monocultural (digital) Humanities?

Domenico Fiormonte (University of Roma Tre) has published a blog post on InfoLet, “Towards monocultural (digital) Humanities?” Fiormonte, partially in response to Gregory Crane’s (Tufts University) recent article, “The Big Humanities, National Identity and the Digital Humanities in Germany,” analyzes linguistic diversity in digital humanities research. English native speakers get a free ride, but the ...

RESOURCE: Research Data Curation Bibliography, Version 5

Digital Scholarship (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) has released the fifth version of Research Data Curation Bibliography. The Research Data Curation Bibliography includes over 350 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. For broader coverage of the digital curation literature, see ...

CFP: Digital Blackness Conference

Rutgers University has issued a call for papers for a two-day conference to be held April 22 – 23, 2016, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Digital Blackness aims to: …bring together scholars, students, activists, and artists from a range of fields and disciplines to interrogate the many new modes, customs, and arrangements of racial identity ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Coordinator, University of Georgia Libraries

From the announcement: The University of Georgia Libraries invites applications for the position of Digital Humanities Coordinator. The successful candidate will be responsible to the Deputy University Librarian for helping to administer and coordinate the diverse activities and programs of the Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab (DigiLab) of the University of Georgia in support of ...

JOB: Digital Initiative Librarian/Assistant Professor, Idaho State University

From the announcement: Supports digital scholarship initiatives including: providing assistance in the digitization of special collections, managing existing digital library services, and informing the creation of new digital services. Reporting to the Head of Collection Management, the Digital Initiatives Librarian works with staff and faculty throughout the library to provide innovative digital library services.