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Digital Humanities In the Library / Of the Library

Jul

29

2016

What are the points of contact between digital humanities and libraries? What is at stake, and what issues arise when the two meet? Where are we, and where might we be going? Who are “we”? By posing these questions in the CFP for a new dh+lib special issue, the editors hoped for sharp, provocative meditations on ...

POSTS: “Seshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative” at Howard University

Jul

14

2016

Kenton Rambsy (University of Texas at Arlington) and Howard Rambsy II (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) have compiled a series of their blog entries “related to the intersections of black artistic culture, technology, DH, and African American literary studies” for the National Endowment for the Humanities project, “Seshat: A Howard University Digital Humanities Initiative” on Rambsy’s ...

POST: The Wartime Films Project: Taking a User-Centered Design Approach at NARA

Jul

14

2016

Jon Voss (Historypin) has written a post for NARAtions, the blog of the U.S. National Archives, the first in a series of blog posts aimed to go “behind the scenes to explore how the National Archives is taking a user-centered design approach toward engagement on a major digitization initiative of a unique collection of Wartime ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium

Jul

14

2016

Registration for the Digital Humanities + Data Journalism (DH+DJ) Symposium, sponsored by the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation, is now open. The symposium, which takes place September 29 through October 1 at the University of Miami, aims to bridge gaps between digital humanists and data journalists: Digital humanists and data journalists face common ...

JOB: Director of Digital Projects, MIT Libraries

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: The Director of Digital Projects will lead an MIT Libraries supported software development program and will develop partnerships with external academic and commercial collaborators to develop tools and platforms with a local and global impact on research, scholarly communications, education, and the preservation of information and ideas. Our goal is nothing short ...

JOB: Digital Projects & Metadata Librarian, American Philosophical Society

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: In this newly created position, the Library seeks a full-time member of the Technology Department to contribute to the planning, design, and development of digital projects using APS collections. As a member of a small team, the Digital Projects & Metadata Librarian will work closely with the Head of Technology to complete ...

JOB: Digital Technologies Librarian, Tulane University

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Technologies Librarian takes an innovative, service-centric approach to the oversight of several key information management and discovery systems (including Tulane’s implementations of Primo, Islandora, and ArchivesSpace). S/he will be responsible for ensuring the optimal performance of these systems, which will include: enabling data integration across distributed and heterogeneous local and ...

RECOMMENDED: #PulseOrlandoSyllabus, #CharlestonSyllabus, and the public good

Jun

16

2016

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) has posted a spotlight item, “#PulseOrlandoSyllabus, #CharlestonSyllabus, and the public good,” discussing the collective syllabus building movements that have followed in the wake of public tragedies and inviting editorial contributions to #PulseOrlandoSyllabus. We are heartened by the rapid response on the part of many in the digital library community to do what ...

POST: Some Thoughts on Ethics and DocNow

Jun

16

2016

Bergis Jules (UC Riverside) recently published “Some Thoughts on Ethics and DocNow” on Medium. Jules’ piece focuses on the ethics of collecting social media archives, prompted by his work on the DocNow project, which “responds to public’s use of social media for chronicling historically significant events, as well as demand from scholars, students, and archivists, among ...

POST: Mecha-Archivists Revisited: An Interview with Trevor Owens and Emily Reynolds

Jun

16

2016

BloggERS!, the blog of the Society of American Archivists’ Electronic Records Section, recently published “Mecha-Archivists Revisited: An Interview with Trevor Owens and Emily Reynolds.” Owens and Reynolds (both IMLS) discussed the IMLS’ national digital platform funding priority, its impact on the work of digital archivists, exciting projects coming out of the funding priority, and the concept ...

RESOURCE: Memorandum of Understanding Collection

Jun

16

2016

Rafia Mirza, Peace Ossom Williamson, and Brett D. Currier (all University of Texas at Arlington) have compiled a Memorandum of Understanding Collection, comprising a workbook, templates for both general and particular project use (such as open access journal-hosting and systematic reviews), and other examples and resources to guide large scale projects that involve collaborations with the library. ...