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JOB: Knowledge Transfer Manager, Royal Irish Academy

Apr

1

2014

From the position announcement: “The Academy is seeking applications to fill a 16 fixed term contract position as Knowledge Transfer Manager on the DAH programme. The successful candidate will join the DRI team and be responsible for developing and delivering outreach, educational and skills training events on behalf of the DRI/RIA for the DAH programme. The Knowledge Transfer manager will ...

Welcome, Josh Honn

Mar

26

2014

We are pleased to welcome Josh Honn to the dh+lib editorial team as Contributing Editor. Josh is the Digital Scholarship Librarian at the Center for Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation at Northwestern University. Josh has been an active participant in the digital humanities and libraries conversation that we’ve tried to foster here at dh+lib, and was ...

RECOMMENDED: Commit to DH people, not DH projects

Mar

25

2014

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has written a post calling for digital humanities centers and programs to focus on people rather than projects as a means of “investing in people’s long-term potential as scholars.” Posner outlines the benefits of investing in people and teams rather than projects, citing successful efforts at the Universities of Virginia and Maryland: ...

PROJECT: HubCab

Mar

25

2014

MIT’s SENSEable City Laboratory has shared HubCab, “an interactive map that captures the more than 170 million unique taxi trips that were made by around 13,500 taxi cabs within the City of New York in 2011.” More than a fascinating snapshot of a year in transit in New York City, the “analysis introduces the novel concept ...

JOB: Digital Repository Analyst at Center for Research Libraries

Mar

25

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Repository Analyst will assess and compare the capacity of various systems to provide long-term access to digitized news. Based on this assessment, he/she will play a key role in developing a rational methodology and process for libraries and publishers to collaborate on digitizing newspaper content to ensure broad access, interoperability, and ...

JOB: Digital Library Access Engineer, Stanford University

Mar

25

2014

From the announcement: “Stanford University Libraries is seeking an enthusiastic and talented software engineer to support infrastructure and services as part of its digital library, an internationally recognized technology program developing innovative solutions to advance teaching, learning and research at one of the world’s leading universities. We are a mission-driven organization that emphasizes open, collaborative ...

POST: The Walt Whitman Archive

Mar

24

2014

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) shared an update on a new project related to the Walt Whitman Archive, a longstanding DH project that “sets out to make Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.” Working in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin and the Center ...

POST: Literary Texts and the Library in the Digital Age, or, How Library DH is Made

Mar

18

2014

Glen Worthey (Stanford University) has posted a written version of his talk from last year’s ALA Annual conference in Chicago, “Literary texts and the library in the digital age, or, How library DH is made.” As part of a panel on new roles for European and American Studies librarians in digital literary scholarship, Worthey touches ...

RESOURCE: Critical Approaches to Digital Humanities at VCU

Mar

18

2014

Fiona Barnett (HASTAC) has created a Storify from the recent “Critical Approaches to Digital Humanities” (#cadh) symposium at Virginia Commonwealth University. Featuring a keynote address by Tara McPherson (USC), the event aimed to provide “an opportunity for scholars and students to focus specifically on DH’s impact, both positive and negative, on the humanities.” The Storify also includes discussion ...

POST: The Red Herring of Big Data

Mar

18

2014

Brian Croxall (Emory University) has shared text and slides from an August 2013 talk entitled, “The Red Herring of Big Data,” in which he offers an engaging overview of the ways that digital humanities scholars can use digital technologies to go beyond pattern recognition and into humanities interpretation. Croxall reviews recent projects concerned with both ...

CFP: Bridging GLAM and Humanities through DH (JADH 2014)

Mar

18

2014

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities has issued a call for papers for its annual conference, JADH 2014, to take place September 19-21, 2014 in Ibaraki, Japan. This year’s conference theme is “Bridging GLAM and Humanities through Digital Humanities”: At JADH2014 we will be especially interested in hearing presentations that focus on these [digital] methodologies ...