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JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, San Diego State University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: San Diego State University Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking individual to envision and create a digital scholarship lab in the library, in collaboration with SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative. This ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Cornell University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: Cornell University Library’s Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) unit seeks a Digital Projects Librarian who will coordinate digital collection projects and provide oversight for objectives of digital preservation. Reporting to the Digital Curation Services Lead, the Digital Projects Librarian will be an important member in the Digital Curation Services team, which ...

RECOMMENDED: Get Involved in the National Digital Platform for Libraries

Sep

10

2015

In a guest post on the LITA blog, Emily Reynolds and Trevor Owens (IMLS) detail digital library funding opportunities under the National Digital Platform program. They draw out the themes of this spring’s IMLS Meetings around opportunities and gaps in US digital library infrastructure and link those themes to the current finding opportunities. These themes are: Engaging, ...

POST: Digital humanities might never be evenly distributed

Sep

10

2015

In a blog post titled, “Digital humanities might never be evenly distributed,” Ted Underwood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) considers the different ways in which digital humanities infrastructure, support, and collaboration work (or don’t work) across constituencies in institutions. He posits that DH can be understood “as an institutional achievement that happens to exist on some ...

RESOURCE: AHA Publishes Guidelines for Evaluation of Digital Scholarship

Sep

10

2015

In a post at the AHA blog, Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Initiatives Seth Denbo, outlines the AHA’s new guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship: The guidelines encourage departments to evaluate such work on its scholarly merits: “Work done by historians using digital methodologies or media for research, pedagogy, or communication should be evaluated for ...

RESOURCE: Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

Sep

10

2015

JADH released the first issue of the Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities on September 2nd. From Editor-In-Chief Charles Muller’s introduction to the issue: In this issue we present eight articles that deal with various issues in Digital Humanities, authored by both local Japanese scholars and researchers from abroad. The articles in this ...

JOB: Humanities Data Curator, University of California, Santa Barbara

Sep

10

2015

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services (CMS), the Humanities Data Curator has primary responsibility for the planning, implementation, and ongoing production of digital collections and scholarly initiatives in support of digital humanities scholarship and artistic production on campus to ensure their high functionality and discoverability through the flow and ...

JOB: Coordinator of the Scholarly Communications Design Studio, University of Connecticut

Sep

10

2015

From the announcement: The Scholarly Communications Design Studio Coordinator is a new interdisciplinary position created to provide leadership and coordination for design project development and engage with faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and the broader University community across all UConn campuses to facilitate and promote design thinking in digital scholarship. The Scholarly Communications Design Studio Coordinator ...

dh+lib Meetup at SAA 2015

Aug

15

2015

Are you attending the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting and want to meet other archivists engaging in digital humanities and scholarship? Join dh+lib for an informal gathering in the repurposed 1908 Cleveland Trust Rotunda Building, at Heinen’s Grocery Store’s The Lounge on Friday, August 21, 6:15-8:00pm. Review Editor Caitlin Christian-Lamb will be there as the ...

RECOMMENDED: The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities

Aug

13

2015

The newest issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly will feature an article by Alix Keener (University of Michigan) addressing questions around collaboration between digital humanities researchers and academic librarians. “The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities” is based on research conducted with participants from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries, which includes ...

POST: A Dataset for Distant-Reading Literature in English, 1700-1922

Aug

13

2015

Ted Underwood has written a post describing his work in collaboration with HathiTrust Research Center to create a dataset for scholars looking to get started with distant reading methods on 18th & 19th century literature (in English). Using the page-level wordcounts available in HTRC and pairing them with page-level metadata created to track the genre ...