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CFP: Digital Blackness Conference, Rutgers University

Sep

24

2015

Rutgers University issued a call for papers for the Digital Blackness Conference to be held on April 22-23, 2016 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. What we might call the digital turn also has significant implications for how we study Blackness within and across fields and disciplines. What does Digital Black Studies mean? What are its ...

JOB: Digital Humanities and Web Services Librarian, University of Delaware

Sep

24

2015

From the announcement: The University of Delaware Library seeks a creative, enthusiastic professional for the position of Digital Humanities and Web Services Librarian. Reporting to the Head, Library Server and Data Management Department in the Library Technologies and Digital Initiatives Division, the position works closely with colleagues throughout the library in three areas of primary ...

JOB: Digital Projects Developer, Lewis & Clark College

Sep

24

2015

From the announcement: Reporting to the Digital Services Coordinator, the Digital Projects Developer performs advanced technical and creative work essential to Watzek Library’s services and digital initiatives. The Developer authors and modifies web software code and installs, configures and administers web content management software. The Developer manages technical projects and assures that deadlines are met ...

POST: Introducing Git-Lit

Sep

24

2015

Jonathan Reeve (Columbia University) has written a post, “Introducing Git-Lit,” inviting input on a project that turns digitized manuscripts from the British Library into GitHub repositories: Git-Lit aims to parse, version control, and post each work in the British Library’s corpus of digital texts. Parsing the texts will transform the machine-readable metadata into human-readable prefatory ...

OPPORTUNITY: Personal Digital Archiving—a new LITA web course

Sep

24

2015

The Library and Technology Association (LITA) division of ALA is offering Personal Digital Archiving for Librarians, “a Moodle based web course with asynchronous weekly content lessons, tutorials, assignments, and group discussion.” Running from October 6 to November 11, 2015, participants will learn best practices for managing digital “stuff,” how to save social media content, understand basics ...

RESOURCE: The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?

Sep

24

2015

Nancy L. Maron (Sustaining Digital Resources Training Program) published “The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?” in the September/October edition of the EDUCAUSE Review. Maron observes three challenges for institutions establishing a digital humanities program from her work with the Ithaka S+R Study: Building an Inventory Examining the Digital Life Cycle Choosing ...

RECOMMENDED: An Information Science Question in DH Feminism

Sep

17

2015

A new article from Tanya Clement (UT Austin) is included in a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (Vol 9, No 2 – now available as a preview) “Feminisms in Digital Humanities,” edited by Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University). “An Information Science Question in DH Feminism” considers how “feminist inquiry can help us articulate and better ...

CFParticipation: EADH Day 2015

Sep

17

2015

The European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH) will be holding a symposium on October 8, 2015 at UNED (Madrid) “to provide the principal annual focus for practitioners of Digital Humanities in Europe to network and discuss common challenges and opportunities.” The event will coincide with the Second International Conference of the Hispanic Digital Humanities Association, ...

RESOURCE: Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age

Sep

17

2015

Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) has drawn attention to a new resource from the Modern Language Association, “Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age: A White Paper on the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions.” Though intended as “a tool for thinking through a set of pressing questions for the MLA’s Committee ...

RESOURCE: Data Rights and Responsibilities: A Human Rights Perspective on Data Sharing

Sep

17

2015

The Digital Koans blog highlights a new article in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, “Data Rights and Responsibilities: A Human Rights Perspective on Data Sharing” (Theresa L. Harris and Jessica M. Wyndham) explores data sharing through a human rights lens, leading to the formation of “a different set of problems, priorities, ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Programmer, Northeastern University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: This position will work as part of a team that includes the staff of the Digital Scholarship Group and Library Technical Services, to develop and expand support for digital scholarship, digital repository services, discovery tools, and related critical library services. We are looking for technically confident, fast learners who are equally comfortable ...