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JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Miami

May

14

2015

From the announcement: The University of Miami Libraries seeks nominations and applications for a collaborative and innovative Digital Humanities Librarian. Reporting to the Associate Dean for Digital Strategies and working within a growing digital strategies team, the Digital Humanities Librarian will develop a set of services to support the evolving digital humanities research and pedagogy ...

POST: Lessons Learned from “Bridging the Gap: Women, Code, and the Digital Humanities”

May

7

2015

Celeste Sharpe and Jeri Wieringa (George Mason University) have written a post on the Association for Computers and the Humanities blog about their experience with DH Bridge, “an open curriculum and workshop framework for teaching computational thinking in the context of the humanities.” Taking a cue from Rails Bridge and Rails Girls, the project: set ...

RESOURCE: OPenn: Primary Digital Resources Available to Everyone

May

7

2015

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries have announced the release of OPenn: Primary Digital Resources Available to Everyone, a site dedicated to making high quality digitized cultural heritage material freely available: “OPenn is a major step in the Libraries’ strategic initiative to embrace open data, with all images and metadata on this site available as free cultural works ...

CFParticipation: Day of DH 2015

May

7

2015

The Day of DH 2015 website is now live, launching the community effort to answer the question ‘Just what do digital humanists really do?’ by blogging one day in the life of DH. Day of DH 2015 marks the first time the project, an initiative of centerNet, will be hosted outside of North America (by Laboratorio ...

CFP: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative

May

7

2015

The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is accepting submissions for a special issue on TEI and Materiality. Submissions are accepted in two categories: “research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words and shorter articles reflecting new research or new tools/services of 2000-4000 words.” jTEI is a peer-reviewed, open access publication. Potential topics include: Conceptual and ...

OPPORTUNITY: DLF Forum Fellowships and Travel Applications

May

7

2015

In an effort to bring new voices and perspectives to its annual conference, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) is offering several fellowships and travel awards. The DLF Forum will be held October 26-28, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The fellowships and awards include: ARL + DLF Forum Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups DLF Forum Fellowships for ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Kansas State University Libraries (2 openings)

May

7

2015

From the announcement: K-State Libraries invite applications and nominations for two Digital Scholarship Librarians. These positions will work collaboratively to grow the center’s publishing, copyright, and data services; support the institutional repository, K-State Research Exchange (K-REx), and online publishing imprint, New Prairie Press (NPP); engage campus content providers; and provide education and guidance on digital scholarship. Master ...

JOB: National Digital Stewardship Residencies, Boston (5 openings)

May

7

2015

From the announcement: NDSR Boston has selected the five host institutions for the 2015-2016 set of residency projects. The host institutions will be the Harvard Library, MIT Libraries, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the University Archives and Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the State Library of Massachusetts. Resident Applications to ...

Welcome, Patrick Williams and Caitlin Christian-Lamb!

May

5

2015

We are pleased to welcome Patrick Williams and Caitlin Christian-Lamb to the dh+lib editorial team. Patrick joins our project as Lead Editor for the dh+lib Review, a position previously held by founding Review editor Zach Coble, who remains an Editor-in-Chief of the site. Caitlin joins us as an additional Review Editor for the dh+lib Review. Caro Pinto and ...

POST: We’re Overdue on Altmetrics for the Digital Humanities

Apr

30

2015

Stacey Konkiel (Altmetric) has written a post reflecting on her recent efforts to understand how research in the humanities is evaluated, with an eye towards the digital humanities in particular. Observing that scholarly societies have begun to issue guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship projects, Konkiel notes that they: tend not to address newer types of ...

POST: Digital Texas Round-Up!

Apr

30

2015

Charlotte Nunes (Southwestern University) has written a round-up of two Texas digital scholarship conferences: the Texas Digital Humanities Conference and the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Chock full of links to projects and presentations, Nunes’s post covers presentations from Tanya Clement, Rebecca Frost Davis, Liz Grumbach, Adeline Koh, Alan Liu, Bess Sadler, George Siemens, and ...