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CFProposals: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

Aug

6

2013

The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science is accepting proposals for individual papers, entire panels or roundtable sessions. The conference will take place December 6-8, 2013, at DePaul University. Panels will consist of three papers and a commentator/moderator, although other formats are possible. Panel proposals should include a title and brief description of ...

RESOURCE: Four P’s of Digital Project Outreach

Aug

6

2013

Sheila Brennan, Associate Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, shares her cheat sheet from talks she gave on the four P’s of digital project outreach at the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ meeting and the recent One Week | One Tool summer institute. ...

RECOMMENDED: Serendip-o-matic, From the One Week | One Tool Team

Aug

6

2013

Twelve digital humanists gathered from Sunday July 28 – Saturday August 3, 2013, for One Week | One Tool, a summer institute sponsored by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities and held at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, to create a new digital humanities tool. The idea was to ...

POST: Bringing Hidden Collections to Light with Viewshare

Aug

6

2013

In an interview on The Signal conduced by Camille Salas, Julie Miller, historian at the Library of Congress, discusses her work creating a Viewshare “view,” a project that examines 18th and 19th century maritime documents. As a collection, these clearances, bills of health, receipts of payments of customs and lighthouse duties, bills of lading, and ship ...

JOB: Coordinator – Digital Scholarship Unit – University of Toronto, Scarborough

Jul

30

2013

From the Announcement: “The University of Toronto Scarborough Library invites applications for a dynamic, highly-motivated person for a full-time permanent status stream position of Coordinator, Digital Scholarship Unit. The successful candidate will bring creativity and enthusiasm to this role that will strengthen the integration of the library into the teaching, learning and research activities at ...

JOB: Digital Archivist – Harvard University Art Museums

Jul

30

2013

From the Announcement: Harvard Art Museums’ increased use of technology has generated a wealth of digital content. The Digital Archivist provides leadership, strategic planning, and management of this content. The Digital Archivist is responsible for the long term preservation, organization, and distribution of the museums’ digitized and born-digital material. The Digital Archivist works closely with ...

EVENT: SHARP 2013 Digital Projects and Tools Showcase

Jul

30

2013

In July, the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) held its twenty-first annual conference in Philadelphia. In addition to the conference program, SHARP also held a digital showcase to share updates from various projects from the United States Canada and Europe. Below are examples of some of the projects: The Book ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Specialist, NYU

Jul

30

2013

From the Announcement: “NYU Division of Libraries is developing a Digital Scholarship and Publishing Services to provide digital scholarship and publishing services for our faculty and graduate students. The Digital Scholarship Specialist will join that unit to provide client service, technical expertise, training, and support for tools and practices that are used by faculty and ...

POST: Librarians and Digital Humanities Services Conversation

Jul

30

2013

A recent post on the PhillyDH blog reports on a conversation among librarians at the University of Pennsylvania about digital humanities and service design. Post author Karrie Peterson posed these questions around library service design: How can we present a non-fragmented service interface to our constituents? How can we determine what levels of support we ...

POST: Library Acquisitions and ETDs

Jul

30

2013

There have been a range of responses to the The American Historical Society’s “Statement on Policies Regarding the Embargoing of Completed History PhD Dissertations.” In this post, Melanie Schlosser, the Digital Publishing Librarian at the Ohio State University Libraries, conducts a brief interview with Dracine Hodges, the Head of Acquisitions at Ohio State to “shed light ...

WORKSHOP: Now Accepting Application: Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute (Oct. 16-18 @ MITH)

Jul

29

2013

Applications are now open for the second Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH). Traditional or alternative professionals, librarians, archivists, cultural heritage specialists, other informational professionals and advanced graduate students are welcome to apply. The application deadline is August 7th.