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POST: Library-Faculty Partnerships Enrich Undergraduate Teaching at Washington and Lee

Feb

11

2016

In a post on the Digital Library Federation’s blog this week, Mackenzie Brooks and Brandon Walsh (both Washington and Lee University) detail collaborations between librarians and faculty on undergraduate-centered digital pedagogy and scholarship across Washington and Lee University. Brooks and Walsh state that their “primary goal is to foster communication and training among librarians and faculty at ...

POST: Embracing ephemerality in the digital humanities

Feb

11

2016

In a post on his blog, “Embracing ephemerality in the digital humanities,” Andy Schocket (Bowling Green State University) writes about the long-term sustainability of digital humanities projects and how the ephemeral nature of some of this scholarship can impact DH work. One thing that not many digital humanists write about directly, but has become increasingly ...

CFP: Celebrating Communities of Practice in Digital Humanities | Digital Frontiers 2016

Feb

11

2016

Digital Frontiers is seeking proposals for their 2016 conference, to be held September 22-24 at Rice University. The conference theme is “Celebrating Communities of Practice in Digital Humanities,” and possible topics include: Transdisciplinary perspectives from new media, art and art history, STEAM and STEM, GLAM Lessons learned retrospective about digital humanities project successes/failures Evaluation, assessment, ...

CFP: Colloquium on Digital Visualisation in the Humanities

Feb

11

2016

The University of Reading has issued a call for papers on “current or recent projects, and the methods, practicalities, challenges, and goals of digital visualisation of any sort, across all humanities disciplines,” for the Data Visualisation Colloquium, to be held at Reading on March 31, 2016. Papers are invited on current or recent projects, and ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Georgia State University

Feb

11

2016

From the announcement: Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will be engaged in the exploration of new forms of online ...

JOB: Scholarly Communications Librarian, University of North Texas

Feb

11

2016

From the announcement: The University of North Texas Libraries, serving the largest and most comprehensive university in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro area, are a pioneer in fostering the transformation of libraries and of scholarly communication. With four physical locations on campus and an even larger digital footprint, with digital-library collections including over 10 million items, ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of Minnesota

Feb

11

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) provides strategic direction for the University of Minnesota Libraries in developing and sustaining new models of support for digital scholarship, primarily through coordination of the Digital Arts Sciences & Humanities (DASH) initiative. The DSL guides campus scholars on the integration of digital technologies and methodologies in research and ...

RECOMMENDED: Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History (Draft)

Dec

10

2015

This week, Trevor Owens (IMLS) posted a draft of an essay he is contributing to A Companion to Digital History, with an eye to receiving comments and discussion that could improve the essay draft. Owens’ draft of “Digital Sources & Digital Archives: The Evidentiary Basis of Digital History” interrogates how the digital shift within archives affects the work of historians. At this point, ...

PROJECT: Digitizing History: The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Archive

Dec

10

2015

Bernard C. Moore (Michigan State University) has published a post on MSU’s Cultural Heritage Informatics Initiative blog, detailing the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) Truth and Reconciliation Commission website. Moore opens by describing the impetus behind the project and its construction. Launched in coordination with the South African History Archive in 2013, in commemoration of ...

POST: Submissions to DH2016 (pt. 1)

Dec

10

2015

Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has published the first DH2016 post in his ongoing series analyzing submissions and acceptances to the annual Digital Humanities conference. Weingart scraped data from the conference submission tool (ConfTool), which allowed him to compare this year’s number of submissions, type (long paper, short paper, panel, or poster), number of authors ...

POST: Acquiring at Digital Scale: Harvesting the StoryCorps.me Collection

Dec

10

2015

StoryCorps, a large-scale oral history project archived at the American Folklife Center, recently created the StoryCorps.me mobile application to act as “a global platform where anyone in the world can record and upload an oral history interview.” In a post to The Signal, the Library of Congress digital preservation blog, Nicole Saylor (American Folklife Center Archive) ...