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JOB: Data Curation Specialist for Humanities and Social Sciences (University of Michigan)

Oct

15

2026

From the job posting: Job Summary The Data Curation Specialist for Humanities and Social Sciences advances the mission of the Library through working with faculty, students and staff to help manage, share and preserve their research data and other content of scholarly value, with a specialized focus on Humanities and Social Sciences. This is a ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian (Ohio University)

Oct

15

2026

From the job posting: Position Information Business Title Data Services Librarian Applications Accepted From University Wide, Public: Open to the Public Special Instructions to Applicants To apply, please complete and submit the online application and be prepared to attach 3 separate documents. A complete application contains a CV or resume, cover letter addressing your interest ...

JOB: Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist (University of Virginia)

Oct

15

2026

From the posting: The University of Virginia Library seeks a Developer and Emerging Technologies Specialist to join the Digital Humanities Center (DHC) as part of the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH). IATH is an internationally recognized humanities research unit dedicated to advancing digital scholarship at the intersection of technology and humanistic inquiry. ...

JOB: Digital Stewardship Librarian (Kenyon College)

Oct

15

2026

From the job posting: Kenyon College is conducting a search for a qualified candidate to fill the position of Digital Stewardship Librarian. This 12 month, full time, position is primarily on campus with some remote flexibility. Help Kenyon’s digital collections last Kenyon’s digital collections, from digitized treasures to born-digital records, need someone to make sure ...

RECOMMENDED: Viewfinder Case Studies from the Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives Project

Sep

30

2026

The IMLS-funded Responsible AI in Libraries and Archives project has published four new case studies, released in September 2026, that show how its Viewfinder toolkit works on real AI projects. Viewfinder is a participatory toolkit for ethical reflection on AI in libraries and archives, organized around different stakeholder perspectives. It was developed by librarians and ...

PROJECT: Archive Stories

Sep

30

2026

Archive Stories is an open-access website about working with creative and non-traditional archives. It is curated by Sara Salem and Mai Taha, designed by Frederick Kannemeyer, and funded by the London School of Economics and Political Science. Rather than offering a new definition of the archive, the curators focus on archiving as a creative practice ...

PROJECT: Old Toronto

Sep

30

2026

Old Toronto turns more than 37,000 archival photographs from the City of Toronto Archives and Toronto Public Library into walking tours of the city. The tool builds on OldTO, the geocoded photo map originally created by Sidewalk Labs and later revived by Back Lane Studios. While OldTO showed what was photographed in a given place, ...

PROJECT: Trans Pride Initiative: Prison Data Explorer

Sep

30

2026

The Prison Data Explorer is a project of Trans Pride Initiative (TPI), a Texas nonprofit, that presents live data from TPI’s correspondence with trans and queer people in prison, primarily in Texas, but also in other state and federal prison systems. The Explorer charts more than 28,000 letters exchanged with over 2,000 people, including the ...

RESOURCE: Guidance for Indigenous Collections and Data

Sep

30

2026

Two organizations, Local Contexts and Creative Commons, have collaborated to create guidelines that “share commitments to equitable knowledge sharing, proper attribution, and respect for diverse cultural and community protocols,” in support of cultural heritage institutions that are creating access to data for Indigenous collections. These guidelines go beyond the usual protocols of copyright, priming museum, ...

POST: Projecting Emotions: Mercator and Equal Earth

Sep

30

2026

In this blog post, Stuart Dunn explains the implications of a vote of the United Nations General Assembly to adopt the Equal Earth projection over the more commonly used Mercator map, which privileges the degrees of travel between to points on a sphere to surface area. In addition to explaining the differences between the two ...

POST: What’s the Deal with Topic Modeling?

Sep

30

2026

Alyssa Virker, with the Data Sitters Club, shares a very practical, no-frills post about topic modeling as part of its TL;DR series, which is aimed at people who “don’t know if digital humanities is right for you.” This post is ideal for introducing students to the method as a form of inquiry and exploration, in ...