RESOURCE: Traces of the Old, Uses of the New

The University of Michigan’s digitalculturebooks has announced the publication of the third title in their Editorial Theory and Literary Criticism Series, Amy Earhart’s Traces of the Old, Uses of the New: The Emergence of Digital Literary Studies. This title “stakes a claim for discipline-specific history of digital study as a necessary prelude to true progress in defining Digital ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Strategy Paid Summer Internship, National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum (2 positions)

From the announcement: The Digital Strategy interns will assist with the ongoing project to make the Museum and Library’s unique collections available and searchable online. The interns, under the guidance of the Digital Strategy department, will focus on enhancing previously created metadata using a controlled vocabulary and schema. They will gain familiarity with Islandora, the ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, University of Toronto

From the announcement: The University of Toronto Library invites applications for a Digital Projects Librarian, Scholars Portal. Scholars Portal is the digital service arm of the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL), which manages infrastructure and services that support Ontario’s 21 university libraries. The Scholars Portal team, based at the University of Toronto, is made ...

JOB: Digital Archivist, State Historical Society of Missouri

From the announcement: Basic Function and Responsibility To create and coordinate digital projects, collections, and services Responsibilities Create and maintain websites, applications including ecommerce, and online databases. Develop and manage digital projects and services. Accession and manage electronic records including image, audio, and video formats. Provide assistance to researchers. Research, plan, and execute outreach efforts ...

JOB: Data & Visualization Librarian, Dartmouth College

From the announcement: The Dartmouth College Library seeks a innovative and collaborative individual to join its Research & Instruction Services department in a newly created position focused on data and visualization support within the curriculum.  Working as part of a team of subject liaisons in support of teaching and research in the Social Sciences and ...

JOB: Associate Director of Development for Digital Initiatives, New York Public Library

From the announcement: The New York Public Library, based in the world’s information capital, has made great strides growing our reach in the digital realm.  NYPL must continue to brand itself as an essential, unique contributor to New York City’s digital sector while raising significant new funds that will allow NYPL to scale quickly and ...

JOB: Web Archivist for ArchiveIt, Internet Archive

From the announcement: The Internet Archive is seeking a Web Archivist for ArchiveIt. Come help us help others save the web! Archive­It is a web archiving service first launched in 2006 that enables our 350+ library and archive partners to capture, manage, preserve, and provide access to the highest quality content from the web. As ...

Museum as Play: Iteration, Interactivity, and the Human Experience

Sebastian Chan is Chief Experience Officer at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Previously he held positions as Director of Digital & Emerging Media at the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and Head of Digital, Social and Emerging Technologies at the Powerhouse Museum. His work spans consideration of digital and physical spaces and has been recognized by organizations ...

RECOMMENDED: Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History (Draft)

This week, Trevor Owens (IMLS) posted a draft of an essay he is contributing to A Companion to Digital History, with an eye to receiving comments and discussion that could improve the essay draft. Owens’ draft of “Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History” interrogates how the digital shift within archives affects the work of historians. At this point, ...

PROJECT: Digitizing History: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Archive

Bernard C. Moore (Michigan State University) has published a post on MSU’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative blog, detailing the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Truth and Reconciliation Commission website. Moore opens by describing the impetus behind the project and its construction. Launched in coordination with the South African History Archive in 2013, in commemoration of ...

POST: Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published the first DH2016 post in his ongoing series analyzing submissions and acceptances to the annual Digital Humanities conference. Weingart scraped data from the conference submission tool (ConfTool), which allowed him to compare this year’s number of submissions, type (long paper, short paper, panel, or poster), number of authors ...