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JOB: Wayback Machine Senior Engineer, The Internet Archive

Feb

26

2015

From the announcement: The Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is the world’s largest public archive of historical web sites. Have you ever wanted to work with 450 billion things at once? Would you like to serve 1,500 requests per second? How about having your service referred to regularly in news articles and blog posts across the ...

POST: Making Lexis maps in Tableau

Feb

26

2015

Chris Alen Sula (Pratt Institute) has written a post that provides a workflow for creating Lexis Maps in Tableau Public. Recognizing that Lexis maps have application beyond demography, Sula provides readers with step by step instructions for working in Tableau as well as tips and tricks for data preparation. Though few have heard of them outside of ...

POST: Digital Scholarship at Bucknell University – It’s about Student Engagement

Feb

26

2015

Param Bedi, Matt Gardzina, and Emily Sherwood (Bucknell University) have written a post about the central role student engagement plays in digital scholarship at Bucknell University. Robustly defining digital scholarship “as any scholarly activity that makes extensive use of one or more of the new possibilities for teaching, learning and research opened up by the unique ...

RESOURCE: Fair Use Fundamentals Infographic

Feb

26

2015

The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is celebrating Fair Use Week to “highlight and promote the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain these doctrines.” The ARL developed and shared a Fair Use Fundamentals Infographic that “explains what fair use is, why it is important, who uses fair use, and ...

POST: Things You Can Do as a Library Student to Prepare for a Career as a Data Librarian

Feb

19

2015

Celia Emmelhainz (Colby College) has written a post at Hack Library School on Things You Can Do as a Library Student to Prepare for a Career as a Data Librarian. She discusses the type of work that data librarians perform, the skills that define them, and offers suggestions on how to learn data skills. Some of ...

RESOURCE: Getting Started with OpenRefine

Feb

19

2015

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has shared his materials on using OpenRefine from a workshop on Data Preparation for Digital Humanities Research. OpenRefine is a tool for cleaning and preparing data, which Padilla explains is a significant amount of the digital humanities research process. Elizabeth Grumbach (Texas A&M University) and Jennifer Hecker (University of Texas) have ...

CFP: Black Code Studies

Feb

19

2015

The Black Scholar is seeking abstracts for a special issue on Black Code Studies. Topics include but are not limited to Online/Hashtag Activism Black and Radical Womyn of Color Feminisms #BlackLivesMatter Games and Nerds of Color Black Codes and Race Codes Afrofuturism/Speculative Fiction Digital Black Studies and Pedagogy Radical Media Reviews of Digital Projects/Media Hacking ...

OPPORTUNITY: ADHO Communications Fellowship

Feb

19

2015

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is looking for Communications fellows for 2015-2016. The position requires 3-4 hours per week, pays 600 Euros, and is ideally targeted for graduate students. The fellows will: write news releases, blog posts and announcements about ADHO, its constituent organizations, and the broader digital humanities community monitor and update ADHO’s ...

JOB: Digital Learning & Scholarship Librarian, Case Western Reserve University

Feb

19

2015

From the job description: Provide digital research and data management support for students and faculty, including meeting regularly with faculty and students to learn about their digital research and data management needs. Manage relationships including regularly promoting library resources and services, developing strategies and materials to promote curricular and academic goals, and conducting and analyzing ...

JOB: Digital Curation Librarian, Fort Hays State University

Feb

19

2015

From the position description: The Digital Curation Librarian will work closely with colleagues from the library, the university, and the regional cultural heritage community to ensure that Forsyth Library’s digital collections are accessible and available for integration with teaching, research, and learning and that collections contribute to an enlightened understanding of the history of the ...

CFP: “How did they make that?” Section for DH Commons Journal

Feb

12

2015

The DHCommons journal has announced a new section “dedicated to procedural descriptions of how to launch and/or maintain an exemplary aspect of a stable digital project,” which will be edited by Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University Libraries). The journal seeks submissions of 600-1000 words that will be peer-reviewed and published alongside an interview with the author ...