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POST: A Kind of Skepticism Humanists Should Hold On To

Aug

20

2013

Ted Underwood, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, continues his examination of some of the areas of overlap between the humanities and more quantitative disciplines. Underwood’s main concern is that numbers tend to distract the eye. If you quantify part of your argument, critics (including your own internal critic) will tend to ...

JOB: GeoSpatial Data Curator, University of California, Santa Barbara

Aug

20

2013

From the position announcement: The GeoSpatial Data Curator contributes to the design and delivery of services and content supporting the Map & Imagery Laboratory (MIL) including, but not limited to, the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer (a global placename dictionary) and a Fedora-based repository for aerial photography and other digital collections in MIL. Working closely with ...

POST: Refining the Problem — More work with NYPL’s open data, Part Two

Aug

20

2013

In part II of his experiment to create an index of items using the New York Public Library’s What’s on the menu? data set, Trevor Muñoz discusses his work with the data and some of the lessons he learned. Muñoz used the Open Refine tool and, finding the NYPL data set too large to easily ...

RESOURCE: Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track

Aug

13

2013

The finished report and data from the Scholarly Communication Institute’s study on graduate education and career development is now available. “Humanities Unbound: Supporting Careers and Scholarship Beyond the Tenure Track” includes specific recommendations on how to better prepare graduate students for alt-ac jobs, including: Evaluate and modify required aspects of graduate-level curricula Rethink standard methods ...

POST: What IS on the Menu? More Work with NYPL’s Open Data, Part One

Aug

13

2013

Part of making the argument for open collections data is showing what can be done with it. Trevor Muñoz’s recent blog post, in which he plays with the NYPL’s open data from the “What’s on the Menu?” project, explains how he uses the collection data as a testbed for data curation work. As Muñoz states: ...

POST: What’s a Nice English Professor Like You Doing in a Place Like This: An Interview With Matthew Kirschenbaum

Aug

13

2013

Trevor Owens has posted a terrific interview with Matt Kirschenbaum (Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Maryland and Associate Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities). In it, they discuss his involvement in the digital archives and digital forensics communities, the hurdles that born digital materials create, BitCurator, and ...

OPPORTUNITY: Speaking in Code

Aug

13

2013

Applications are now being accepted for “Speaking in Code,” an NEH-funded symposium taking place November 4-5, 2013, at the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab. The event has been organized as an attempt to make explicit the tacit knowledge that is usually employed by software developers in the digital humanities. As the announcement explains: Over the ...

POST: From Trees to Webs: Uprooting Knowledge through Visualization

Aug

13

2013

Scott B. Weingart has posted a preprint [pdf] of “From Trees to Webs: Uprooting Knowledge through Visualization,” in which he discusses the shift from visualizing the classification of knowledge as hierarchical and linear (tree) to the modern conception of knowledge as rhizomatic and networked (web). In the blog post announcing the work, which also contains ...

RESOURCE: Library Publishing Toolkit

Aug

6

2013

The Library Publishing Toolkit examines the “broad and varied landscape of library publishing through discussions, case studies, and shared resources. From supporting writers and authors in the public library setting to hosting open access journals and books, this collection examines opportunities for libraries to leverage their position and resources to create and provide access to ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Specialist, Getty Research Institute

Aug

6

2013

From the position announcement: The Getty Research Institute (GRI) seeks a creative, technology-grounded person with a background in art history and/or computer science to conceptualize, advise, and coordinate digital humanities projects and collection digitization projects. Reporting to the GRI Deputy Director, the position will interact with a diverse range of collaborators including resident scholars, curators, ...

CFPapers: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2014 Conference

Aug

6

2013

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is accepting paper proposals for its 2014 conference, to be held March 19 – March 22 in Williamsburg, VA. Our readers might be interested in submitting papers to the panels on “Digital Approaches to the Material” and “Practicing Digital Pedagogy.” Deadline for paper submissions is September 15, 2013.