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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 ...

JOB: Digital Liberal Arts Specialist

Mar

12

2015

From the description: Grinnell College seeks a talented digital specialist to work with faculty and students in integrating digital media with liberal arts scholarship and teaching in a highly selective undergraduate, residential college. Key responsibilities will include the promotion of faculty and student creativity in the use of digital technology in an innovative, inquiry-led curriculum, ...

JOB: Map Metadata and Curatorial Assistant, University of California – Berkeley

Mar

12

2015

From the announcement: Creates and upgrades metadata/catalog records for maps, map sets, atlases, and digital geospatial data for the Earth Sciences & Map Library and other campus libraries. Prepares and assigns metadata to digital map sets and geospatial data for ingestion into digital collections. Performs complex database maintenance by resolving conflicts and improving or correcting ...

POST: About the DLF E-Research Network

Mar

5

2015

Jason A. Clark (Montana State University) has written a post about his experience with the Digital Library Federation (DLF) E-Research Network, a “community of practice focused on sharing resources for implementing research data management services as well as for shared skill development and collaboration.” Clark outlines some of the immediate benefits of participating in the ...

POST: Fitting the Pieces Together: Progress on Linked Data for Libraries

Mar

5

2015

Trevor Owens (Institute of Museum and Library Services) provides a recap of the Linked Data for Libraries (LD4L) Workshop that took place at Stanford University in February, 2015, in a post on the IMLS blog. Owens notes that “one of the central points of focus at the meeting was to work through a series of ...

POST: What is Digital Scholarship? A Typology

Mar

5

2015

William G. Thomas III (University of Nebraska-Lincoln) offers a typology for digital scholarship in the humanities, which will be discussed in greater depth in the upcoming revised edition of Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities. Thomas notes that the definitions “are not meant to exclude or restrict the definition of digital scholarship. Indeed, I hope these definitions ...

RESOURCE: Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers

Mar

5

2015

ACRL has announced the publication of Getting the Word Out: Academic Libraries as Scholarly Publishers, edited by Maria Bonn (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Mike Furlough (HathiTrust). Divided into three sections (what, how, and why libraries publish) and featuring a redoubtable roster of contributors, the volume includes information on collaboration, publishing agreements, “archival APIs,” data curation, ...

CFP: Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets (IJHAC)

Mar

5

2015

The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (IJHAC) has announced a call for submissions to its 10th anniversary special edition, “Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets.” Edited by Jennifer Giuliano and Mia Ridge, the collection invites chapters that address: In an environment where resources for humanities education are reduced, how might the decline ...

JOB: Metadata Description Author (White House Historical Association)

Mar

5

2015

From the announcement: The White House Historical Association is seeking a Metadata Description Author to work as part of the Digital Library team at the David M. Rubenstein Center for White House History. Primary duties will include identifying digital and analog images and researching their provenance and content in order to produce metadata and writing ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship & Publishing Librarian, University of South Florida

Mar

5

2015

From the announcement: Building on the current University of South Florida Library program in open-access publishing, digital scholarship, and data management, this position will coordinate scholarly communications activities across the campus and help guide the campus toward innovative and sustainable methods of dissemination and preservation of scholarly output.