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POST: Library/IT Partnerships with Campus Museums & Archives” Executive Roundtable Report

Feb

1

2017

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) released the report of the Fall 2016 Executive Roundtable: The discussion covered a wide range of topics related to the development of institution-wide strategies for describing, managing, curating, enhancing access, preserving, and disseminating surrogates or born-digital representations of objects housed in those institutions, and ways in which these collections can ...

Engaging Open Cultural Data

Feb

1

2017

Mia Ridge is a Digital Curator, working within the Digital Scholarship team at the British Library. Mia holds a PhD in Digital Humanities (Department of History, Open University). She has published and presented widely on user experience design, human-computer interaction, open cultural data, audience engagement and participation in the cultural heritage sector, and digital history. Her ...

POST: Feminist Data Visualization; Or, the Shape of History

Jan

26

2017

Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech) has shared the text of a paper she presented at MLA 2017, “Feminist Data Visualization; Or, the Shape of History.” In it, Klein examines the work of Elizabeth Palmer Peabody, a nineteenth century educator who designed visualizations to be used in educational settings. Peabody’s visual method replaces the hierarchical mode of ...

POST: Indigenous Literature and the Digital Humanities

Jan

26

2017

David Gaertner (University of British Columbia) has written a post for the Novel Alliances blog that explores the relationship between the digital humanities and new media studies in relation to Indigenous literature. In “Indigenous Literature and the Digital Humanities,” Gaertner argues that “the threat of exploitation” accounts for the disjuncture between the two areas: Indigenous ...

RESOURCE: 6 Ways to Save Pages in the Wayback Machine

Jan

26

2017

A new post on the Internet Archive blog details a variety of methods to ensure webpages are added to the Wayback Machine. “If You See Something, Save Something: 6 Ways to Save Pages in the Wayback Machine,” includes a one-click “Save Page Now” form on the wayback machine’s homepage, a new Chrome Extension and Wikipedia ...

CFP: Keystone DH 2017

Jan

26

2017

The call for proposals has been issued for the Keystone DH 2017 conference, to be held at the Chemical Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, from June 12 to 14. From the cfp: Keystone DH is currently inviting submissions on all aspects of using and studying digital computation within the interpretive context of the humanities–especially those considering ...

OPPORTUNITY: ARL Digital Scholarship Institute

Jan

26

2017

The Association of Research Libraries has announced a five-day institute “for professionals in ARL member libraries who are new to digital scholarship to develop their skills in an intensive, yet supportive, learner-centered environment.” The ARL Digital Scholarship Institute will take place June 5-9, 2017 at Boston College and will “foreground critical thinking about the content ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Technologist, Florida State University

Jan

26

2017

From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of Digital Scholarship, this position will support applications and tools for incoming and ongoing research projects and pedagogical initiatives. As part of the newly established Office of Digital Research and Scholarship (DRS), the candidate will integrate with a productive and innovative team of librarians, archivists, and developers to ...

JOB: Open Publishing Librarian, Syracuse University

Jan

26

2017

From the announcement: This position leads the Libraries’ open publishing services for the University community. The position develops, champions, and assesses business models for open publishing, broad technical requirements, partnerships, strategy, and necessary policies and procedures. The position helps the Libraries serve the University not only as its principal buyer and lessor of scholarship, but ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian, UC Berkeley

Jan

26

2017

From the announcement: The Data Services Librarian develops, leads, and assesses an innovative outreach and service program to increase data and statistical literacy within the Library and across the curriculum. Reporting to the Head of the Library’s Social Sciences Division, the incumbent provides leadership for campus and library initiatives supporting data and digital scholarship, and ...

dh+lib at MLA 2017

Jan

4

2017

Many of our readers may remember (and miss!) the annual list of digital humanities sessions at the Modern Language Association (MLA) conference created by Mark Sample (Davidson College). This year, we’re fortunate to have at our disposal a community-sourced spreadsheet, created by Carrie Johnston (Wake Forest University) and containing 52 sessions relevant to digital humanities. ...