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RECOMMENDED: Here and There: Creating DH Community

Sep

25

2014

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has posted the text of a talk she gave at the Digital Frontiers conference, titled “Here and There: Creating DH Community.” Posner begins by addressing some of the larger issues around building community: For me, community happens when people are genuinely invested in seeing each other succeed. This doesn’t happen by being ...

RESOURCE: Sharing Beautiful Data with the World

Sep

25

2014

metaLAB (Harvard University) has published several documents produced during Beautiful Data, a week-long workshop for art historians held this past summer. Describing the workshop and the documents, Matthew Battles, notes: “Although conceived as an engagement in digital-humanities ‘training,’ we thought quick-and-dirty tutorials in javascript and topic-modeling would be less useful than the chance to discover ways ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Wesleyan University

Sep

25

2014

From the position description: Supervise the operations of the Library Digital Projects lab, including the work of lab student workers and/or interns. Work with Special Collections & Archives, the World Music Archives, library liaisons, Academic Computing Managers, and faculty to select and prioritize for digitization unique Wesleyan collections for use in student and/or faculty research ...

Registry of DH and Library Sites

Sep

24

2014

Do you offer digital humanities or digital scholarship support at your library/institution? Do you have a website? Add it to our list! dh+lib is seeking to compile a registry of websites of groups that offer DH and digital scholarship services. At the Digital Humanities Interest Group meeting at ALA Annual, many of you mentioned frequently ...

POST: For God’s Sake, Stop Digitizing Paper

Sep

18

2014

Joshua Ranger has written a post on the AVPreserve blog that calls on archivists (and others) to examine their digitization practices and priorities. Arguing that audiovisual materials are in greater danger of obsolescence, Ranger declares, “We should agree to stop digitizing paper and other stable formats for a set period because, in a way, it ...

POST: Analysis of Privacy Leakage on a Library Catalog Webpage

Sep

18

2014

Eric Hellman (unglue.it) has written up a recent presentation at the Code4Lib-NYC meeting in which he performed an “Analysis of Privacy Leakage on a Library Catalog Webpage.” Hellman selected a single webpage for a book in the NYPL online catalog and traced “all the requests my browser made in the process of building that page.” ...

RESOURCE: Bookworm for Movies and TV

Sep

18

2014

Ben Schmidt (Northeastern University) has created an online tool that allows users to “investigate onscreen language in about 87,000 movies and TV shows, encompassing together over 600 million words.” Bookworm: Movies draws on a corpus from Open Subtitles and metadata from IMDb to chart changing language use in film and television dialogue, using the Bookworm ...

CFP: Accessible Future Workshop (Lincoln, NE)

Sep

18

2014

Applications are now being accepted for the 2-day NEH-funded Accessible Future workshop, taking place November 14-15, 2014, in Lincoln, NE. The Accessible Future workshop is intended for humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals who wish to learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies This is ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Specialist, Carnegie Mellon

Sep

18

2014

From the announcement: The Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, with grant funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation in the Digital Humanities, is seeking applicants for a Research Staff position in the digital humanities. In particular, we are looking for applicants with skills and experience in one or more of ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Smith College

Sep

18

2014

From the announcement: Lead digital scholarship initiatives for the Smith College Libraries’ Teaching, Learning and Research (TLR) department, working closely with colleagues engaged in the development of digital scholarship at Smith. Promote the adoption of new models of scholarship at Smith by developing methodologies and tools of the digital humanities and social sciences for research, ...

POST: Getting Digital Humanities Done: Schedule, Software, Etc. for a Digital Dissertation

Sep

11

2014

Amanda Visconti (University of Maryland) has written a post that sheds light on how a research developer works “on a daily basis.” Visconti describes the elements that comprise her physical and digital work environments. Similar to the productivity interviews at The Setup, Visconti says, “I’ll describe the workplace set-up, schedule, and software that help me make progress ...