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CFP: Access, Control, and Dissemination in Digital Humanities

Apr

5

2018

Richard Mann and Shane Hawkins (both Carleton University) have issued a call for chapter proposals for a volume they will edit for Routledge: Access, Control, and Dissemination in Digital Humanities. From the CFP: While DH is seen by some as especially interdisciplinary or more conducive to group work, linked data, and open research, including both ...

EVENT: Emory Digital Humanities Symposium: DH for the Study and Teaching of South Asia

Apr

5

2018

The Emory Digital Humanities Symposium: DH for the Study and Teaching of South Asia will be held April 6-7, 2018, at Emory’s Woodruff Library in Atlanta, with presentations live-streamed. As per the symposium website, the event aims to cover “newly formed approaches to digital humanities (DH) in the field of South Asian Studies”: In the case ...

JOB: Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship (European Languages Division), Harvard College Library

Apr

5

2018

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of the European Languages Division (ELD), the Librarian for Collections and Digital Scholarship will initiate and lead the ELD’s digital projects. As a member of a team of librarians emphasizing collections in the humanities and social sciences in Western European and Slavic languages, this position will play a key operational ...

JOB: Preservation and Digital Archivist, Villanova University

Apr

5

2018

From the announcement: Villanova University’s Falvey Memorial Library seeks an entrepreneurial and technologically adept archivist to serve as the Preservation and Digital Archivist. Reporting to the Director of Distinctive Collections and Digital Engagement, the Preservation and Digital Archivist will be responsible for constructing, developing, and coordinating a new digital records infrastructure as well as managing ...

POST: Engaging Absence

Mar

1

2018

In a new post on his website, Thomas Padilla (University of Nevada Las Vegas) probes questions of how to “engage absence” within data, using his experience spearheading Collections as Data as a lens: Where the data exhibit significant informational paucity, indeterminate values, inordinate biasing, or limited scope it is common to cast them aside in pursuit ...

POST: Resistance, Racialized Violence, and Database Design

Mar

1

2018

Sarah Whitwell (McMaster University) has authored a post for the Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship’s blog, entitled “Resistance, Racialized Violence, and Database Design,” detailing her work defining “resistance” for a database schema: When inputting data on incidents of racialized violence, for example, I must decide how to code types of violence… It is ...

RESOURCE: “Natural Allies”: Librarians, Archivists, and Big Data in International Digital Humanities Project Work

Mar

1

2018

Alex H. Poole and Deborah Garwood (both Drexel University) have submitted a pre-print of their article, “‘Natural Allies’: Librarians, Archivists, and Big Data in International Digital Humanities Project Work,” to ResearchGate. From the paper introduction: This paper first reviews the literature, concentrating on the relationships among digital humanities (DH), Library and Information and Science (LIS), ...

CFP: Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black Conference

Mar

1

2018

The University of Maryland’s African American History, Culture, and Digital Humanities Initiative (AADHum) has posted a call for proposals for their first national conference, to be held at the University of Maryland on October 18-20. The conference’s theme is “Intentionally Digital, Intentionally Black”: What happens to digital humanities inquiry when we begin with Black culture, ...

CFP: 2018 Digital Frontiers/Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities Conference

Mar

1

2018

Digital Frontiers has posted a call for proposals for the 2018 Digital Frontiers/University of Kansas’s Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities (IDRH) Digital Humanities Forum, to be held October 4-5 at the University of Kansas. The theme for the conference is “Finding Community in Digital Humanities”: When the diversity of disciplines, technologies, and communities ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Specialist and Archivist, Bucknell University

Mar

1

2018

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head, Special Collections/University Archives and University Archivist, the responsibilities of the Digital Preservation Specialist and Archivist are two fold: work with the Bucknell University campus to establish an effective and sustainable digital preservation program and actively participate in the processing and description activities taking place in Special Collections/University Archives. ...

JOB: Emerging Technologies and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Queens College

Mar

1

2018

From the announcement: We seek a creative, collaborative librarian who can take the lead in the development of these new initiatives. The ETDS librarian will work collaboratively to support the development of the new initiatives to create high-impact learning spaces within the library that make use of new technology and digital pedagogies. In addition to ...