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POST: Data Praxis in the Humanities: Function and Ethic

Apr

14

2016

Thomas Padilla (UC Santa Barbara) recently posted a portion of a talk he’d given at the University of Wisconsin Madison’s Digital Humanities Research Network on his blog. The extract, “Data Praxis in the Humanities: Function and Ethic,” focuses on Padilla’s efforts at communicating “the concept of data in the Humanities”: Seeing and working with an ...

RESOURCE: OER Outreach for Newbies

Apr

14

2016

Sarah Crissinger (Davidson College) has authored a three-part series on “OER Outreach for Newbies” for the ACRLog blog. The first post, “What I Would Do Differently” details current OER faculty stipend projects at Davidson College, and how Crissinger might approach launching similar projects for other institutions: As I answered questions about the stipend program, OER, ...

RESOURCE: Calculating All that Jazz: Accurately Predicting Digital Storage Needs Utilizing Digitization Parameters for Analog Audio and Still Image Files

Apr

14

2016

Krista White (Rutgers University Newark) published “Calculating All that Jazz: Accurately Predicting Digital Storage Needs Utilizing Digitization Parameters for Analog Audio and Still Image Files” in Library Resources & Technical Services. White’s paper on determining digitization parameters is aimed at information professionals writing digital project proposals, and offers practical guidelines on approaching such projects. The abstract: ...

JOB: Assistant Professor – Digital Engagement Librarian, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Apr

14

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Engagement Librarian creatively collaborates with and supports faculty, students, and community members involved in digital scholarship and digital projects. Participates in the development of digital projects and collections by providing a full range of instruction and sustainability services and best practices. Responsible for consulting with faculty, staff, and students from ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Colorado Boulder

Apr

14

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Librarian will foster partnerships that encourage the exploration and adoption of evolving modes of digital research and pedagogy on campus, particularly in the humanities. The successful candidate will work with colleagues in the CU-Boulder Libraries and campus units to build a community around digital scholarship on campus and in ...

RECOMMENDED: Money and Time

Mar

17

2016

This week, Miriam Posner (UCLA) posted an edited version of a talk she recently gave at UC Irvine’s Data Science and Digital Humanities symposium on her blog. Posner’s talk focuses on sustainability of digital humanities centers and initiatives, pointing out major concerns about staffing models, grant-funded projects, and a perceived “immateriality of digital labor”: I ...

POST: Data fluidity in DARIAH — pushing the agenda forward

Mar

17

2016

Laurent Romary (DARIAH and INRIA), Mike Mertens (DARIAH), and Anne Baillot (Centre Marc Bloch and INRIA) have released a new paper, “Data fluidity in DARIAH — pushing the agenda forward.” Romary, Mertens, and Baillot’s paper details the establishment of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), an overview of the infrastructure’s current membership, ...

RESOURCE: UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-Term Preservation

Mar

17

2016

UNESCO has released The UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-Term Preservation, a document created to: “provide an overarching starting point for libraries, archives, museums and other heritage institutions when drafting their own policies on the selection of digital heritage for long-term sustainable digital preservation.” Recognizing that “Heritage institutions – libraries, archives, ...

OPPORTUNITY: NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

Mar

17

2016

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have announced a jointly funded program to “support individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and digital publication,” the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication. Projects funded through this fellowship program: … must be conceived as digital because the nature of the ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer, Boston College (2 positions)

Mar

17

2016

From the announcement: These Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer positions advance digital scholarship by providing research services, technical support, and project management assistance for members of the BC community engaged in technology-rich scholarly projects. Both librarians maintain deep knowledge and practical expertise in an evolving interdisciplinary landscape of digital scholarship tools and methods, including but ...

JOB: Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian, University of Pennsylvania

Mar

17

2016

From the announcement: As part of a collaborative team of librarians within the Digital Scholarship Department, the Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian will explore new models for scholarly communication and digital publishing, participate in ongoing scholarly communication efforts, and take a leadership role in the publication, sharing, and reuse of research data across the ...