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POST: Linking Lived Experiences of WWI Through Battalions?

Oct

16

2014

Mia Ridge (Trinity College Dublin) has written an update on the project, “In their own words: linking lived experiences of the First World War,” as part of her CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowship. In addition to discussing the potential of crowdsourcing transcriptions, Ridge post helps to “figure out the issues researchers face and the variations in ...

RESOURCE: Día de las Humanidades Digitales 2014

Oct

16

2014

October 15th marked the second annual “Día de las Humanidades Digitales” (Día HD), a Day of DH for digital humanists who work primarily in Spanish or Portuguese. The event, which consists of individuals blogging about their workday, aims to draw attention to digital humanities work in Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. Ernesto ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities — Where are the Libraries?

Oct

16

2014

The 12th International Bibliotheca Baltica Symposium, which took place October 9-10, 2014, at Södertörn University in Stockholm, focused on “Digital Humanities — Where Are the Libraries?” The symposium included presentations from institutions from a variety of countries across Europe, including Latvia, Sweden, Poland, Finland, Germany, and Russia. Jussi-Pekka Hakkarainen (National Library of Finland) posted slides from ...

RESOURCE: HILT Trip Report

Oct

16

2014

Archivist Eira Tansey (University of Cincinnati) has written a detailed trip report outlining her experience in the Digital Forensics course at the Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching Institute (HILT), taught by Kam Woods (UNC-Chapel Hill) and Porter Olsen (University of Maryland) of BitCurator. In addition to a day-by-day recap of the course and the lectures, ...

OPPORTUNITY: The Digital Antiquarian Conference + Workshop (AAS)

Oct

16

2014

The American Antiquarian Society has announced “The Digital Antiquarian,” a 2-day conference and 5-day workshop taking place May 29-June 5, 2015, in Worcester, MA. The two-day conference will open up questions related to digitization, cataloguing, and research design, exploring applications of digital tools and methods to diverse library materials, and identifying needs and opportunities in ...

CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference

Oct

16

2014

Proposals are now being accepted for the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference which will take place on July 22-24, 2015, at the University of Pennsylvania. Presentations may take the form of interactive presentations, short papers, project demos, or panel discussions. We welcome proposals from emerging and veteran students, teachers, and scholars. Proposals of 200-300 words are ...

CFParticipation: NARA’s Revised Digitization Strategy

Oct

16

2014

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has requested input on its revised Digitization Strategy, which is part of the National Archives 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. Marcus Most, Director of the Digitization Division at the National Archives, notes: Our revised strategy outlines some key approaches to digitization at NARA: Cultivating partnerships with institutions and organizations from ...

JOB: Assistant Head Librarian, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)

Oct

16

2014

From the announcement: The Assistant Head Librarian is responsible for managing day-to-day operations, including: Library Operations – Coordinate workflow, establish priorities and assign work to ISAW’s library staff. Train new staff. Manage special projects by devising appropriate workflows and providing supervision. Technical Services – Supervise the work of ISAW’s cataloging team, a group performing original ...

POST: Open Access Publishing and Geo-Spatial Tools for (Music) Research

Oct

9

2014

Anna Kijas (University of Connecticut) has posted the text and slides from her Digital Frontiers 2014 talk, “Open Access Publishing and Geo-Spatial Tools for (Music Research).” Kijas discusses her process for selecting a platform to document and disseminate her research on the Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño, as her “goal evolved from simply publishing a print book ...

POST: Doing Web Accessibility

Oct

9

2014

Michael Rodriguez (Hodges University) has written a post at LITA Blog about improving web accessibility for library webpages. Rodriguez discusses several ways to do this work, including using the W3C Markup Validator, the WAVE Tool, and browser developer tools. He notes, You’re not a web developer, you say? Neither am I. But even if your ...

POST: What Does it Take to Be a Well-Rounded Digital Archivist?

Oct

9

2014

Peter Chan (Stanford University) has written a post examining the requirements for eight job advertisements for digital archivists from the past year. He found that all of them required formal training in archival theory and practice. Some institutions placed more emphasis on computer skills and prefer applicants to have programming skills such as PERL, XSLT, ...