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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, ...

RESOURCE: Wayfinding at the Opening of an Era: Digital Scholarship, Data, and ETDs

Oct

9

2014

In her keynote to the 2014 United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) conference, held in Orlando, FL, at the end of September, Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) discussed the evolution of theses and dissertations to incorporate new forms, processes, and products of research, enabled by digital scholarship and pursued with the goal ...

CFP: DHSI Colloquium

Oct

9

2014

Proposals are being accepted for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Colloquium, to be held during DHSI in June 2015 at the University of Victoria. All are welcome to submit, and proposals should be 300-500 words on topics including (but not limited to) the scholar’s role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, ...

CFP: CNI Fall 2014

Oct

9

2014

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is now accepting proposals for project briefings at its next membership meeting, December 8-9 in Washington, D.C. Project briefings address state-of-the-art developments and issues of interest to the membership, as outlined in each year’s Program Plan. Management of data, digital content, and institutional information resources, digital preservation, innovations in ...

JOB: Director, Digital Library Federation

Oct

9

2014

From the position description: Articulating DLF’s vision in a way that signifies and promotes its values, particularly fostering a greater awareness of the international aspects of the concept of digital libraries and the need to coordinate all major activity as part of a global effort Providing leadership and intellectual direction for DLF’s annual meeting, the ...

JOB: Tribal Digital Archives Curriculum Coordinator, Washington State University Libraries

Oct

2

2014

From the position announcement: This position will assist in the development, coordination and promotion of a fifteen month curriculum focused on emphasizing the lifecycle of digital preservation and access with specific attention to tribal needs and relevant issues. Reports to the Head of Digital Scholarship and Curation (DSC). DSC is a new unit within the ...

RESOURCE: Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage

Oct

2

2014

Mia Ridge (Open University) announced that her edited volume, Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage is now available for purchase. “Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts of data. This book brings together for the first time the collected ...

POST: Evaluating Non-Traditional Digital Humanities Dissertations

Oct

2

2014

Amanda Visconti (MITH) has written a post about how to “chart progress and record effort through the non-traditional dissertation.” She notes, Having a unique format scrubs a lot of the traditional methods for evaluating these factors: maybe there’s no “chapter” to turn in, or you’ve undertaken a critical building project in a programming language your committee ...

POST: We Have Never Been Digital

Oct

2

2014

Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) has written a post responding to Thomas Haigh’s reflection “on the intersection of computing and the humanities,” concluding that “we have never been and never will be entirely digital.” Rockwell explores the implications of this on digital humanities and whether the discipline can evolve to meet new scholarly demands. Citing Haigh: “There ...

JOB: Programmer & Born Digital Processor, Radcliffe Institute

Oct

2

2014

From the position announcement: The Programmer and Born Digital Processor has responsibility for developing technical strategies and workflows for arranging, describing, and delivering born digital records. Acts as liaison to library teams, providing technical instruction, and arranges and describes born-digital and AV collections. Uses open source code to create or maintain online delivery platforms for ...