PROJECT: Suppose There’s Some Connection: Visualizing Character Interactions in Ulysses for Bloomsday 2013

Amanda Visconti, Rhonda Armstrong, Regina Higgins, Steven Hoelscher, and Pamela Andrews have used Gephi to create visualizations of the network of character relationships in Ulysses. Each person examined 10 pages of the text for seven types of character interactions, such as “character thinking of another character” or “character observing another character.” Visconti also provides a ...

RESOURCE: Geospatial Historian

The Geospatial Historian, modeled after the Programming Historian, is a “tutorial-based open access textbook for historians and digital humanists that aim to teach digital mapping and GIS skills.” Current lessons include Google Maps and Google Earth, Installing QGIS and Adding Layers, Creating New Vector Layers, and Georeferencing. The site editors are looking for additional contributions ...

RESOURCE: DHThis

In response to questions of transparency with the Journal of Digital Humanities, Adeline Koh, Martin Eve, Roopika Risam, Jesse Stommel, and Alex Gil have launched DHThis. Koh states in her post introducing the platform, DHThis is a news aggregator which ā€œpublishesā€ what the community votes to be the best or most relevant work. It is ...

JOB: Digital Social Science and Humanities Specialist, Michigan State University

From the job description: The Department of History at Michigan State University is seeking a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). The successful candidate will have knowledge of digital research methods and tools; experience developing collaborative research projects; ...

JOB: Digital Resources Librarian, University of Mary Washington

From the position announcement: The Digital Resources Librarian works collaboratively with the Special Collections Librarian and other personnel to create, maintain, and promote UMW Libraries’ digital collections, including creating policies and usage guidelines, planning and implementing workflows, and overseeing quality control. Under the supervision of the Special Collections Librarian, this position will develop strategies for ...

Welcome, Caro Pinto!

We are pleased to welcomeĀ Caro Pinto, Library & Instructional Technology Liaison at Mount Holyoke College, to the dh+lib editorial team. Caro joins our project as a dh+lib Review Editor, taking on a role previously held by Sarah Potvin, who remains a Co-Editor of the site. The dh+lib Review editors—Caro, Zach Coble, and Roxanne Shirazi—rotate through ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Toronto

From the position announcement: The incumbent will coordinate the digital projects team in carrying out the planning and execution of scalable and sustainable digital projects to make scholarly output and research resources available online. Responsibilities include providing leadership in setting goals, and implementing policies and priorities for digital project work in collaboration with the digital ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Toronto

From the position announcement: will be to work with faculty to support and enable the use of digital content in new research through the provision of sustainable and scalable digital research tools, methods and frameworks. Working collaboratively with library colleagues and university partners, this librarian will also promote the discovery, use and interoperability of the ...

POST: Keeping the ā€œLā€ in Digital: Applying LIS Core Competencies to Digital Humanities Work

In an article in The Journal of Creative Library Practice,Ā Kaetrena Davis Kendrick of the University of South CarolinaĀ Lancaster places “many core activities of [Digital Humanities] squarely in the domain of modern librarianship.” Reviewing the ALA Core Competencies of Librarianship, Kendrick ā€œreveals how LIS competencies have been applied to a Korean popular culture DH project at ...

JOB: Senior Software Developer, Texas Digital Library

From the job description: To design, develop, maintain and enhance the systems that support the activities of the Texas Digital Library (TDL). TDL provides digital repository software to academic libraries, manages, maintains codebase for the Thesis and Dissertation Management Systems, and develops code toward digital asset preservation.  

JOB: Director of Digital Strategy and Technology Integration, Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh

TheĀ Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) seeks a dynamic and engaged technology leader to play a key role in positioning the Library as a recognized, trusted and relevant resource for our community in an increasingly digital world. The successful candidate for this newly created position will possess a shared vision of the importance of technology in ...