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JOB: Digital Projects Librarian at Florida Atlantic University Libraries

Jul

29

2013

From the Announcement: Reporting to the Digital Initiatives Librarian, the Digital Projects Librarian will be responsible for the long-term preservation of FAU’s digital collections in the Florida Digital Archive. The desired candidate will have an understanding of emergent and best practices, standards, issues, and trends relating to digital initiatives in an academic library environment. The ...

Teaching Digital Scholarship in the Library: Course Evaluation

Jul

24

2013

John Russell, of the University of Oregon Libraries, recently taught a new, graduate-level course in digital scholarship, which he introduced earlier on dh+lib. In this post, he reviews how the class went. My Issues in Digital Scholarship class ended in March (we’re on the quarter system in Oregon). This class was designed to introduce graduate ...

CFP: New ADHO Special Interest Group dedicated to Libraries and DH

Jul

23

2013

As has previously been reported in dh+lib review, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) issued a call for proposals for Special Interest Groups (SIGs), through which “those with similar professional specialties, interests, and aptitudes can exchange ideas, stay current, and mobilize to pursue common goals across the boundaries of ADHO’s individual Constituent Organizations.” During ADHO’s ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Michigan State University

Jul

23

2013

Michigan State University is hiring for a Digital Humanities Librarian to “lead the MSU Libraries in support of new models of scholarship in the humanities, incorporating new technology-driven opportunities such as text mining, the study of media (art, film, music), linguistic corpora analysis, creation of shared digitized libraries, and new kinds of writing.” The librarian ...

JOB: Associate Archivist, Davidson College

Jul

23

2013

From the announcement: Davidson College, a nationally recognized liberal arts college, invites applications for the position of Associate Archivist. As a new practitioner, and member of the Archives and Special Collections team, you will be mentored by professionally active senior team members with over 55 years of experience at Davidson as you help expand our ...

RESOURCE: Textal Text Analysis App

Jul

23

2013

The University College London (UCL) Centre for Digital Humanities, in collaboration with the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has released Textal. Textal is a free iOS app “that allows users to analyze documents, web pages and tweet streams, exploring the relationships between words in the text via an intuitive word cloud interface. The app ...

CFP: Humanities Intensive Learning + Teaching at MITH

Jul

23

2013

Following in the footsteps of their successful DH Winter Institute in January 2013, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the University of Maryland will again host the week-long training event. Henceforth, it will be called Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) and will be held in the summer. The planners of HILT, ...

CFP: HTRC UnCamp 2013 | HathiTrust Digital Library

Jul

23

2013

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is hosting its second UnCamp on September 8-9, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is “targeted to the digital humanities and informatics tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students,” and is “part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part ...

RESOURCE: Using Data Curation Profiles to Design the Datastar Dataset Registry

Jul

23

2013

The current issue of D-Lib Magazine includes an article by Sarah J. Wright, Wendy A. Kozlowski, Dianne Dietrich, Huda J. Khan, Gail S. Steinhart, and Leslie McIntosh titled, Using Data Curation Profiles to Design the Datastar Dataset Registry. From the abstract: The development of research data services in academic libraries is a topic of concern ...

RESOURCE: Crafting Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage: Mapping and Curation Tools for the Linked Jazz Project

Jul

23

2013

In the current issue of The Code4Lib Journal, M. Cristina Pattuelli, Matt Miller, Leanora Lange, Sean Fitzell, and Carolyn Li-Madeo discuss using linked open data for the Linked Jazz project. The abstract reads: This paper describes tools and methods developed as part of Linked Jazz, a project that uses Linked Open Data (LOD) to reveal ...

PROJECT: The Dinner Party Wikipedia Project

Jul

23

2013

Alexandra Thom of the Brooklyn Museum discusses her experience with The Dinner Party Wikipedia project. The Dinner Party is an installation by Judy Chicago featuring the names of 1,038 women in history, and the project aimed to provide Wikipedia citations for all 1,038 women. Thom discusses the challenges she faced in the project, both in ...