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PROJECT: Food Mapping in Digital Historical Research

Oct

24

2019

Dani Willcutt, a second-year Ph.D. student in the History Department at Michigan State University and CHI (Cultural Heritage Informatics) Fellow for the 2019-2020 year, is working on a project to combine food mapping and digitizing culinary resources. This specific project will “bring Malinda Russell’s A Domestic Cook Book: Containing a Careful Selection of Useful Receipts for ...

CFP: 2020 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

Oct

24

2019

Texas Digital Library (TDL) and the conference planning committee are now accepting proposals for the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2020, which will be held May 18-21, 2020 at the Commons Conference Center on the J.J. Pickle Research Campus in Austin, Texas. From the call: As Texas Digital Library embarks on a new decade, TCDL’s ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (Boston College) – 2 positions

Oct

24

2019

From the announcement: Boston College Libraries are seeking two collaborative, creative, technically-savvy, and engaging individuals to support our digital scholarship initiatives. Reporting to the Head of Digital Scholarship, these two Digital Scholarship Librarians will join the Libraries’ Digital Scholarship Group, each specializing in either digital scholarship instruction or project planning and execution. Applicants should indicate ...

JOB: Digital Publishing Specialist (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

Oct

24

2019

From the announcement: The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks an innovative, proactive, collaborative, and motivated professional excited about advancing experimental and open forms of scholarly publication in the position of Digital Publishing Specialist. Reporting to the Head of Scholarly Communication and Publishing, the Digital Publishing Specialist will provide the Library’s Scholarly Communication and Publishing Unit ...

JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship Services Department (University of California, Irvine)

Oct

24

2019

From the announcement: Description The University of California, Irvine Libraries seeks an energetic, creative, knowledgeable, and user-oriented librarian for the position of Head of Digital Scholarship Services Department. The successful candidate will play a key role in leading innovation and collaboration in the Libraries’ digital scholarship program. Qualified candidates from diverse backgrounds and life experiences ...

POST: Intra-Campus Collaboration Around Research Support

Oct

17

2019

Brian Lavoie, a research scientist at OCLC has published a post about developing formal and informal intra-campus collaboration around research support. He shares several observations garnered from recent discussions by the OCLC Research Library Partnership (RLP) Research Support Interest Group: Collaborative relationships on campus are both formal and informal Who you know is important … build ...

RESOURCE: Digital Collections Management Compendium

Oct

17

2019

The Library of Congress has announced the launch of its Digital Collections Management Compendium (DCMC). The DCMC is a comprehensive set of guidelines and policies for LoC’s digital collection management. The DCMC is intended to promote “enduring access to the Library’s vast digital collections.” Senior Digital Collections Specialist Jesse Johnston writes, “This resource is primarily ...

CFParticipation: Digital Preservation Services in Digital Scholarship Centers Survey Participation

Oct

17

2019

Digital humanities/digital scholarship librarians and staff are invited to participate in a brief online survey about digital preservation practices at digital scholarship centers (including digital humanities centers) in the United States. This survey is primarily multiple-choice, and we anticipate it will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. This research is focused on digital scholarship centers, including digital humanities ...

CFP: DH Scholarship from the Viewpoint of Women and Gender Minorities

Oct

17

2019

As part of the proceedings for the “Women and Gender Minorities in DH” conference held at Stanford University in May 2019, the organizers invite “love letters” to DH projects and ideas. From the call: If you identify as a woman and gender minority working in DH anywhere in the world, you are invited to contribute ...

OPPORTUNITY: Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining

Oct

17

2019

UC Berkeley is hosting a four-day institute this summer: Building LLTDM: Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining (#BuildingLLTDM). To be held June 23-26, 2020, this NEH-funded event seeks to “empower digital humanities researchers and professionals to be able to confidently navigate law, policy, ethics, and risk within digital humanities text data mining projects — so ...

OPPORTUNITY: Archives Unleashed Datathon

Oct

17

2019

Archives Unleashed, an Andrew W. Mellon funded initiative which aims make petabytes of historical internet content accessible researchers, has announced its fourth datathon to take place 26-27 March 2020. From the call for participation: The World Wide Web has had a profound impact on how we research and understand the past. The sheer amount of ...