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RESOURCE: Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice

Jun

11

2015

The University of Michigan’s digitalculturebooks has announced the publication of the seventh title in their Digital Humanities Series, Douglas Eyman’s Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. This title seeks to bring work from fields including composition and rhetoric, human computer interaction, media and new media studies, game studies, and others into a definition of digital rhetoric. ...

JOB: Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Humanities, Arizona State University

Jun

11

2015

From the job announcement: The School of Historical, Philosophical, & Religious Studies (SHPRS) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a full-time, benefits eligible, digital humanities Postdoctoral Fellow. Under guidance of the principal investigators for the SocialScribe project on annotation, history, and time-based media, the successful candidate will take on the following leadership roles ...

JOB: Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist (2 Year Pilot Position), Northeastern University

Jun

11

2015

From the job announcement: Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist […] will help mobilize and design Library services supporting statistics and information visualization activities across Northeastern University.

dh+lib Meetup at DHSI 2015

Jun

9

2015

Attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and interested in how libraries, archives, and museums contribute to the “teaching, research, dissemination, creation, and preservation” of the digital humanities? Join dh+lib for an informal gathering on Tuesday, June 9, 6-8pm, at Smugglers Cove Pub. Review Editor Caitlin Christian-Lamb will be there as the meetup organizer and dh+lib representative, ...

dh+lib/DHIG meetup at HASTAC 2015

May

23

2015

Attending the HASTAC 2015 conference and interested in how libraries, archives, and museums contribute to the “Art and Science of Digital Humanities?” Join dh+lib and DHIG for an informal gathering on Friday, May 29, 7-9pm, at Beggars Banquet. Thomas Padilla and myself will be there as organizers of the meetup, but we’re counting on you ...

POST: Open-Sourcing MoMA’s Digital Vault

May

14

2015

In “Open-Sourcing MoMA’s Digital Vault,” Ben Fino-Radin (Museum of Modern Art) explains the process and rationale behind the creation of Binder, the museum’s new open-source software for “overseeing and managing the active preservation of digital collections.” Binder was developed in conjunction with Artefactual Systems, and designed for use alongside Archivematica and Arkivum. What is good ...

POST: Becoming Digital Public Historians

May

14

2015

Trevor Owens (Institute of Museum and Library Services) has written a post on his blog, reflecting on his experience teaching a Digital Public History seminar at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. “Becoming Digital Public Historians” references both the title of a course unit and, Owens argues, a “kind of identity work [that] is at the core ...

POST: Learning How Fair Use Works

May

14

2015

Kevin Smith (Duke University) has written a post introducing the new Fair Use Index released by the U.S. Copyright Office. The index, which will be updated and expanded by the Copyright Office, contains searchable summaries of approximately 170 fair use cases in U.S. courts and, as Smith notes, doubles as a learning tool: “the best ...

RESOURCE: Deconstructing Bricolage: Interactive Online Analysis of Compiled Texts with Factotum

May

14

2015

The current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (v. 9, no. 1) includes an article by Tomas Zahora, Constant J. Mews, David Squire (Monash University), and Dmitri Nikulin (Google) entitled “Deconstructing Bricolage: Interactive Online Analysis of Compiled Texts with Factotum.” From the abstract: Textual bricolage, the unacknowledged re-use of chunks of existing texts within a new composition, spans ...

CFP: Communities of Practice: Toward a Local and Global Digital Humanities

May

14

2015

The peer-reviewed, open access journal Cogent Arts & Humanities has issued a call for papers for a special collection on the topic of Communities of Practice: Toward a Local and Global Digital Humanities. Guest editors Aaron Mauro (Pennsylvania State University) and Ray Siemens (University of Victoria) seek: submissions dedicated to describing community formation and collaboration while accounting for ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Xavier University

May

14

2015

From the announcement: Job Description Xavier University seeks an energetic individual to fill the newly created position of Digital Initiatives Librarian. This is a unique opportunity blending traditional librarian skills, technology and innovation to strategically position the library to meet future needs. The librarian in this key position has primary responsibility for coordinating our digital ...