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JOB: Digital Humanities Developer, Carnegie Mellon University

Nov

19

2015

From the announcement: The Developer would work alongside researchers from Dietrich and elsewhere to plan and implement digital humanities projects, from statistical analyses of millions of legal documents to websites that crowdsource grammars of endangered languages. Located in the the Office of The Dean under CMU’s Digital Humanities Specialist, the developer will help start up ...

JOB: Digital Library Applications Administrator, Smith College

Nov

19

2015

From the announcement: Administer digital library applications used by faculty, staff, and students, such as web content management, digital collection repositories, and archives information management and other tools used in support of teaching and learning with library content and services. Consult with content and technology specialists in the Libraries, Information Technology Services and other campus ...

RESOURCE: Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians

Nov

12

2015

Laura B. Palumbo, Ron Jantz, Yu-Hung Lin, Aletia Morgan, Minglu Wang, Krista White, Ryan Womack, Yingting Zhang, and Yini Zhu (Rutgers University) have published “Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians” in the Journal of eScience Librarianship. From the abstract: In order to provide a better defined workflow and mission for research data ...

POST: Word Embedding Models

Nov

12

2015

Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern University) has shared two posts about word embedding models–“Vector Space Models for the digital humanities” and “Rejecting the gender binary“–on his blog. Each post explores facets algorithms that can be used in digital humanities research. The first post provides an overview to word embedding models, contrasting them with topic models: DHers use topic models because it ...

POST: Maps (and other things) online

Nov

12

2015

Lise Summers (State Records Office of Western Australia) has shared a post about her institution’s migration of records from Aeon to AtoM. Summers describes the process of moving 6,600 digital objects and 7,200 images. Maps from the collection are now available online. AtoM has enabled new loading and viewing capabilities: In our old system, we were restricted ...

POST: When the Technology Changes on You

Nov

12

2015

Maha Bali (The American University in Cairo) authored a post on ProfHacker this week reflecting on how to handle changes to technology we use in teaching and teaching and learning from alterations to the user experience (Twitter’s shift from stars to hearts) to the loss of a tool (Zeega). She closes by extolling the benefits of hosting various ...

JOB: Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University

Nov

12

2015

From the announcement: The Columbia University Libraries seeks a motivated, collaborative, and forward-thinking professional to lead its Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS). CDRS works to increase the utility and impact of research produced at Columbia by creating, adapting, implementing, supporting, and sustaining innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, ...

CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities

Nov

12

2015

The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques has issued a call for proposals for their annual meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Calgary, May 30-June 1, 2016. The Society encourages “scholars, practitioners, and graduate students” to submit proposals “on all ...

POST: A Linked Data Journey: Proof of Concept

Nov

5

2015

The Library and Information Technology Association (LITA) Blog has published a post by Jacob Shelby (Iowa State University), “A Linked Data Journey: Proof of Concept.” In this second installment of his series aiming to clarify the concept of Linked Data, Shelby walks through the process of how he created a Linked Data catalog record, including hyperlinks to the completed ...

POST: Ghosts in the Machine

Nov

5

2015

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published a post on his blog reflecting on the “materiality and cost” of Holocaust remembrance, following a tour of the USC Shoah Foundation. Weingart ties his interest in acting as his family’s historian and genealogist into a larger reflection on the institutional workings of preservation, particularly in a digital ...

RESOURCE: Presentations from Designing Libraries IV Available Online

Nov

5

2015

CNI announced that the presentations from the Designing Libraries IV conference, held in September at North Carolina State University, are now available online through NCSU Libraries. As the news release states, “There is a wealth of information here on trends in library buildings, technologies, services, and organizational issues.” Sessions that might be of particular interest ...