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EVENT: #transformDH Conference 2015 (Roundup)

Oct

8

2015

The first conference convened by the #tranformDH collective took place at the University of Maryland last weekend, October 2-3, 2015. A day of panels and video showcases embracing the group’s tagline, “Transformative Digital Humanities: Doing Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality, Disability, and Class in DH,” culminated in a keynote address by Lisa Nakamura (University of Michigan) ...

PROJECT: RRCHNM to Build Software to Help Researchers Organize Digital Photographs

Oct

8

2015

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University has announced a new project to develop open source software to help researchers organize digital photographs, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The tool, which will be called Tropy, is a response to the challenges of managing large collections of images ...

RESOURCE: Digital Repository of Ireland’s Repository Specifications

Oct

8

2015

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) has published the repository’s requirements specifications, containing the functional, legal, and business requirements for the project—from ingest to APIs to user interface and copyright. The repository links together and preserves both historical and contemporary data held by Irish institutions, providing a central internet access point and interactive multimedia tools. ...

JOB: Senior Researcher Fellowship, Swedish School of Library and Information Science (DiXiT Project))

Oct

8

2015

From the announcement (“Digital Scholarly Editing and Memory Institutions”: The study of this Experienced Researcher project aims to critically explore the range of measures and methods for establishing trustworthiness, quality parameters and authenticity of digital reproductions in libraries and archives, particularly by looking at cases where levels and measures are negotiated between such memory institutions ...

A Digital History of Morningside Heights: Columbia’s Developing Librarian Project

Oct

1

2015

In July 2013, the Humanities and History team at Columbia University Libraries announced a new project to reskill librarians for digital scholarship in a post on dh+lib. Now, the Developing Librarian team has announced the launch of their collaborative project, Morningside Heights Digital History, an Omeka-based online exhibit. We’ve reproduced their announcement below as a ...

POST: #contextiseverything Whyte Memorial Lecture 2015

Oct

1

2015

Jaye Weatherburn (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) authored a post summing up the Whyte Memorial lecture delivered by Ross Harvey (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia), “Keeping, Forgetting, and Misreading Digital Material: Libraries Learning from Archives and Recordkeeping Practice.” Harvey “extolled the benefits of archival principles, and called for them to be used for managing digital materials.” ...

POST: No More Excuses

Oct

1

2015

In “No More Excuses,” Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University) calls for the end of all-male panels in the digital humanities and points to several crowdsourced resources for locating women in DH: Build a Better DH Syllabus, Build a Better List of Code Experts, and Build a Better Panel. Wernimont concludes: There are no more excuses. ...

PROJECT: Open Library of Humanities

Oct

1

2015

The Open Library of Humanities announced the launch of their platform with an editorial by directors Martin Paul Eve and Caroline Edwards. Launched after more than two years of planning, with supporting membership funding, OLH represents “the seed of a scalable model for journal transition to open access in the humanities that does not rely on payment from authors ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACRL Virtual Meeting, Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group

Oct

1

2015

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group is sponsoring a free webinar about the integration of faculty research into planning into the planning and management of library-based DH centers. Join the webinar on Wednesday, October 21 at 3pm EST with guests Peter Logan (Temple University) and Liz Rodrigues (University of Michigan). You can register for the webinar ...

JOB: Lead Developer, Princeton University Center for Digital Humanities

Oct

1

2015

From the position announcement: The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is an interdisciplinary research center in the Princeton University Library. While the global digital humanities community is constantly defining and redefining itself, the CDH embraces an inclusive understanding of DH that respects and investigates the myriad ways digital methods and technologies are opening new avenues ...

JOB: Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Grinnell College

Oct

1

2015

From the announcement: The Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian will serve as academic liaison for Chinese and Japanese, Classics, German, Music, Russian, and Theatre and Dance, providing faculty contact, reference consultation with students and faculty, research literacy teaching, and collection development. In addition, this librarian will be responsible for consulting with faculty, staff, and students ...