JOB: Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Illinois State University

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Coordinator is responsible for facilitating and supporting faculty and student digital research projects, ranging from short and long-term consultations (e.g., helping to identify appropriate methods, tools, and training resources) to more intensive, hands-on assistance with technology, project design, and project management. For faculty, they offer a range of teaching ...

JOB: Natural Language Processing Specialist, University of Florida

From the posting: The University of Florida, in Gainesville, Florida is seeking a Natural Language Processing Specialist / Assistant University Librarian for the Department of Academic Research Consulting and Services (ARCS). Duties and responsibilities include: Providing instruction (teaching), consultation, and project work in Natural Language Processing (NLP), text mining, predictive text, and related areas; Collaborating ...

JOB: Librarian/Archivist for Digital Programs, Harvard Radcliffe Institute

From the posting:  Reporting to the Head of Digital Collection and Services, the Librarian/Archivist for Digital Programs has shared responsibility for technical program management, digitization and the enabling of data integration across local and external data sources in the Digital Collections and Services unit. The Schlesinger Library contributes to one of the largest shares of ...

JOB: Institutional Repository Librarian, Montclair State University

From the posting: Reporting to the Associate Dean for Research, Teaching and Engagement, the Institutional Repository Librarian is responsible for managing Montclair State University’s institutional repository (IR) and related technologies. The Institutional Repository Librarian has primary responsibility for guiding the development of a successful system of tools to support and showcase Montclair scholarship and unique ...

JOB: 3D Data Visualization Specialist, Washington University

From the posting: Reporting to the Head of Data Services, the 3D Data Visualization Specialist develops research services and consults with WU campus users related to 3D data visualization. The position will focus on the development of services, tools, and programs to support faculty, staff, and students’ efforts to model data and produce 3D data ...

RECOMMENDED: Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities

“Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities: An Analysis of DH Courses in LIS Education,” by Chris Alen Sula (Pratt Institute) and Claudia Berger (Sarah Lawrence College), provides a look at DH courses offered in LIS programs in light of the growth DH has seen since 2014 when it was identified as one of the ...

RECOMMENDED: DHQ Issue 17.2

The most current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), issue 17.2, focuses on Critical Code Studies and Tools Criticism, which the editors define as “the application of the hermeneutics of the humanities to the interpretation of the extra-functional significance of computer source code. ‘Extra’ here does not mean ‘outside of’ or ‘apart from’ but instead ...

PROJECT: Mapping Racist Covenants

The Mapping Racist Covenants project highlights neighborhoods and properties in the Tuscon, AZ area that contained racist language in their covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CCRs) during development, focusing on CCRs from 1912-1968. From the project’s website: The MRC project will deliver an interactive web-based map highlighting the geography of racist CCRs in Tucson that prevented African ...

POST: The Data Sitters Club #19: Shelley and the Bad Corpus

DCS#19 of The Data Sitters Club, a project that applies “digital humanities computational text analysis tools and methods” to a popular book series from the 1990s, looks at the corpus of works that make up the collection. The author of this chapter, “Shelley and the Bad Corpus,” Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University), worked with Prof. Shelley ...

RESOURCE: Text on Maps Help Guide

Text on Maps has collected pieces of text from 57,000 georeferenced maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection and made them searchable with mapKurator, allowing users to search within the contents of text on maps, rather than just the metadata. From the site: “While library patrons have become used to searching books via their content ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Virtual Podcasting Workshop Series

The Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University’s Libraries will host a free, virtual, 5-part workshop series on scholarly podcasting. All workshops will be hosted on Zoom, from 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Pacific Time. The workshop dates and descriptions for the semester are: September 29: Why Podcast? October 6: Recording your Podcast October ...