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CFP: New Directions in the Humanities Conference

Nov

20

2014

The Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, June 17-19, 2015. The call for papers includes a “Special Focus for 2015: From the Digital Humanities to a Humanities of the Digital”: The conference will analyze this special focus through an interdisciplinary lens, ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, California College of the Arts

Nov

20

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) will provide vision and energy in promoting the discovery, use and interoperability of digital content and digital resources in support of new knowledge creation at the college. The DSL will provide overall management for a multidisciplinary range of digital content, which includes standard file formats (i.e. publication, ...

RECOMMENDED: Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship

Nov

13

2014

Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) has shared a post, “Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies as an Object Lesson,” based on her recent keynote at the ACRL-Delaware Valley Chapter annual meeting. Porter writes: “I … realized that reuse of data is not new. In fact, it is ancient, and thinking in these ...

CFParticipation: Digital Literary Studies (Journal)

Nov

13

2014

Digital Literary Studies (site under development), a new open access peer-reviewed journal based out of Pennsylvania State University, is currently building its editorial team: Digital Literary Studies will look to publish scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources. … We are inviting expressions of interest ...

JOB: Digital Publishing Production Lead, Mason Publishing

Nov

13

2014

From the announcement: Mason Publishing Group seeks an experienced professional responsible for the management of and front-line user support for digital publishing tools and platforms. Mason Publishing Group is a new initiative that unites the George Mason University Libraries’ existing digital publishing activity with the George Mason University Press to form a new set of ...

JOB: HathiTrust Research Center Digital Humanities Specialist

Nov

13

2014

From the announcement: Reporting to the English and Digital Humanities Librarian, the Visiting HTRC Digital Humanities Specialist will assist with the development of training and outreach initiatives in support of libraries who wish to start their own HTRC research services as well as researchers working with the Hathi Trust Research Center. Responsibilities will include planning, ...

POST: Submissions to Digital Humanities 2015 (pt. 1-3)

Nov

13

2014

Scott Weingart (Indiana University) has written a series of posts about submissions to Digital Humanities 2015. The first post provides an overview of submissions, the second post compares and contrasts submissions for 2015 with the previous two years, and the third post investigates “the geography of submissions.” He observes, among other shifts, a rise in ...

RESOURCE: Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities

Nov

13

2014

Alex Christie (University of Victoria), Andrew Pilsch (Arizona State University), Shawna Ross (Arizona State University- Polytechnic), and Katie Tanigawa (University of Victoria) released the Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities following the Modernist Studies Association Annual conference. The manifesto offers strategies for critiquing methods and content, a framework for how modernists can create their own digital strategies: Modernists Digital Strategies should ...

POST: Johannes Factotum and the Ends of Expertise

Nov

6

2014

Bethany Nowviskie has shared the text of her keynote address at the 2014 Digital Library Federation Forum, in which she examines the changing nature of expertise in the academy. Nowviskie lauds the DLF community and the Forum in particular for bringing together a unique mix of experts and generalists: The ability (actually, I think, the ...

POST: The Internet Arcade and the Textures of Emulation

Nov

6

2014

Matthew Battles (metaLAB at Harvard) has written a post reflecting on his recent visit to the Internet Archive, where he was given a peek into Jason Scott‘s work archiving computer software and arcade games after giving a talk at the Books in Browsers conference. It’s technologically both antic and elegant: Jason’s system has parsed and ...

RESOURCE: Library Collections as Humanities Data

Nov

6

2014

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has shared a postprint pdf of a paper co-authored with Devin Higgins that “argues for thinking about library collections as Humanities data.” As Padilla writes in a blog post introducing their work: I think its important that we as librarians study and argue about our collections in a manner befitting ...