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OPPORTUNITY: Call for Subject Specialist Editor, The Programming Historian

Feb

9

2017

The Programming Historian has released a call for a subject specialist editor: The Programming Historian (http://programminghistorian.org) is seeking an editor to work actively to solicit and edit lessons in a specific area or areas within the digital humanities. These lessons will focus on the analysis and interpretation phase of the research process, helping readers to ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, College of Charleston

Feb

9

2017

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Librarian serves as Project Coordinator to both the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) and the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), striving to expand these projects and promote the history of the region. They will work with librarians, faculty members, and LCDL and LDHI partners, scholars, and contributors to digitize collections ...

JOB: Data Services Librarian, University of Maryland

Feb

9

2017

From the announcement: The primary responsibility of the Data Services Librarian is to serve as the program lead to implement and promote novel, sustainable data services throughout all stages of the research data lifecycle. The incumbent in this position should strive to become the Libraries’ primary expert for the technology required to support comprehensive data ...

RECOMMENDED: Caring About Access

Nov

17

2016

Tim Sherratt (University of Canberra) has posted the text of his portion of a panel discussion at Digital Directions 2016 in Canberra. Sherratt’s post begins with a reminder that: …we can’t take the meaning of words like ‘open’ or ‘access’ for granted. They are what we make of them. I’m a historian and hacker. I ...

POST: Submissions to DH2017 (pt. 1)

Nov

17

2016

Scott B. Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published the first DH2017 post in his ongoing series analyzing submission data for the annual international digital humanities conference. As in previous year, Weingart breaks down submission numbers along the lines of authorship data, language, topic, and discipline. Of particular note for dh+lib readers is Weingart’s paragraph on ...

POST: Three Questions with Yasmeen Shorish and Kevin Hegg

Nov

17

2016

The Digital Library Federation has published a post on their blog, “Three Questions with Yasmeen Shorish and Kevin Hegg.” Shorish and Hegg’s answers to the questions of “What must change in our field?” and “What should endure?” are particularly relevant to information professionals working at the intersection of libraries and digital humanities. They call for ...

POST: Is Open Access Enough? Strategies for Healthier OA

Nov

17

2016

In a post, for the ACRLog blog entitled “Is Open Access Enough? Strategies for Healthier OA,” Dylan Burns (Utah State University) analyzes difficulties in getting buy-in for submission to institutional repositories and using Open Access resources in his role as a digital scholarship librarian. Low faculty involvement in the Institutional Repository and suspicion of OA are ...

CFParticipation: Please: Help Build the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election

Nov

17

2016

The Internet Archive has posted asking for help building a “web archive documenting reactions to the 2016 Presidential Election”: You can submit websites and other online materials, and provide relevant descriptive information, via this simple submission form. We will archive and provide ongoing access to these materials as part of the Internet Archive Global Events ...

CFP: Global Digital Humanities Symposium at Michigan State University

Nov

17

2016

Digital Humanities at Michigan State University has issued a CFP for their Global Digital Humanities Symposium, to be held March 16-17. Possible topics include: Critical cultural studies and analytics Cultural heritage in a range of contexts How identity categories, and their intersections, shape digital humanities work Global research dialogues and collaborations Indigeneity – anywhere in ...

RESOURCE: DHCommons Journal, 2016

Oct

27

2016

DHCommons has released their second publication, and announced an expanded remit that can include completed as well as mid-stage projects, and that future publications will be published on a rolling schedule: We have also reconsidered our publishing schedule as we felt that the digital-only nature of DHCommons meant it no longer needed to be tied ...

POST: Data and Humanism Shape Library of Congress Conference

Oct

27

2016

Mike Ashenfelder (Library of Congress) has published a write-up of the Library of Congress’ Collections As Data conference on the LOC blog The Signal. Ashenfelder notes that the conference “coalesced into two main themes: 1) digital collections are composed of data that can be acquired, processed and displayed in countless scientific and creative ways and 2) ...