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CFP: 21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians

Mar

19

2015

The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries is accepting applications for 21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians in July 2015. The institute “consists of a three-day residential experience for 20 mid-career librarians, followed by one year of online engagement and support. The instruction team includes four CLIR fellows, supported by University of Rochester ...

CFParticipation: Revising the Library of Congress’ Recommended Format Specifications

Mar

19

2015

Ted Westervelt (Library of Congress) has written a post about the Library of Congress’ new Recommended Format Specifications. These specifications provide resources for libraries and librarians about how to select content that has the greatest chance of long term preservation and access. It is not merely the Library of Congress which might benefit from something like ...

JOB: Center for Humanistic Inquiry (CHI) Fellows, Amherst College

Mar

19

2015

From the announcement: The Center for Humanistic Inquiry at Amherst College, in its inaugural year, seeks three one-year full-time CHI Fellows from varied disciplines to explore the theme of “Mattering Lives.” Our theme resonates with urgent ongoing cultural and political conversations about the ways in which lives matter—that is, take on meaning and value—in differing ways. It also ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian, Georgia State University

Mar

19

2015

From the announcement: Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities. The Digital Scholarship Projects Librarian will be engaged in the exploration of new forms ...

POST: Making Story Games with Twine 2.0

Mar

19

2015

Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida) has written a post for ProfHacker about creating story games with Twine 2.0 . Salter warns long time Twine users that Twine 2.0 is not backwards compatible, but assures readers that the changes to 2.0 will welcome new users and broaden the community, especially as many of the changes to ...

POST: Novice Struggles and Expert Blindness

Mar

19

2015

Jennifer Grayburn (Scholars’ Lab) has written a post about her experiences coding in PHP. In “Novice struggles and expert blindness: How my discomfort with PHP will make me a better instructor,” Grayburn talks about recognizing the “expert blind spot” through her work with the lab: I wonder if we should perhaps make this discomfort a ...

POST: “A City That Never Sleeps?”-new data and analysis from “On Broadway” project

Mar

19

2015

Lev Manovich (The Graduate Center, CUNY) wrote the first post in an upcoming series describing the interactive exhibition and web application On Broadway, which includes “660,000 Instagram photos shared along Broadway during six months in 2014; Twitter posts with images for the same period in 2014;over 8 million Foursquare check-ins, 2009-2014;22 million taxi pickups and drop-offs for al of ...

RESOURCE: Watermarking and OCR-ing Your Images

Mar

12

2015

Ammon Shepherd (University of Virginia) has shared the code and instructions for batch watermarking and OCR-ing images. During the course of archival research, Shepherd needed a way to extract text from images of book pages and to add watermarks indicating the source of an image. As a result, he created a script – both a ...

RESOURCE: The Collection and the Cloud

Mar

12

2015

Amelia Abreu (University of Washington) has written an article in The New Inquiry, “The Collection and the Cloud,” that asks “Where are the future archives?” Abreu argues that “Contemporary technologies have given us platforms that look a lot like personal archives, yet the archival functionality of platforms feels like an empty promise.” She goes on ...

OPPORTUNITY: Critical Making in Digital Humanities Webinar Series

Mar

12

2015

Washington State University is hosting a series of webinars around the theme of “critical making in digital humanities.” The sessions are held online from 10:00-11:30am PST/1:00-2:30pm EST and are free, although signup is required. Sessions include: March 12, 2015 “DUST: Critical Making and Alternate Reality Games (ARG).” Kari Kraus, University of Maryland March 17, 2015 ...

CFP: NEH Research and Development Grants

Mar

12

2015

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for Research and Development grants. The grants support “projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources,” specifically ones that “demonstrate how advances in preservation and access would benefit the cultural heritage community in ...