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RESOURCE: Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center? An OCLC Research Report

Feb

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2014

OCLC Research has released a new report, “Does every research library need a digital humanities center?” [PDF]. Written by Jennifer Schaffner and Ricky Erway, it: [I]s intended to prepare research library directors and other decision-makers to respond to questions from deans or provosts who may ask what the library is doing about the digital humanities. It discusses specific ...

POST: Scholar Sourcing, Crowdsourcing, and Community Sourcing

Feb

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2014

In a post to her website, Digital Humanities Librarian Laurien Taylor (University of Florida) discusses the use of community-sourcing and scholar-sourcing in her work. These terms, Taylor argues, are distinct from “crowdsourcing” because they are more targeted in scope, focusing not on “the entire online world” but on commitments at the institutional level, which in ...

CFP: Digital Preservation 2014

Feb

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2014

The Library of Congress is accepting proposals for its Digital Preservation 2014 conference, to be held July 22-24 in the Washington, DC, area. Session types include panels or presentations, 5-minute lightning talks, demonstrations, and posters. To be considered, submit a proposal (up to 300 words) describing what you would like to present to ndiipp [at] ...

CFP: Digital Libraries 2014

Feb

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2014

Proposals are being accepted for the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) and the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL), which will be held together as the International Digital Libraries Conference (DL2014) from September 8 – 12, 2014 in London, UK. Workshop, tutorial, and panel submissions due: March 2, 2014 Full ...

POST: The Neoliberal Library: Resistance is Not Futile

Jan

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2014

Chris Bourg (Standford University) writes about the role of the library in the neoliberal university, based on a talk she gave at Duke University on January 14, 2014. Several aspects of neoliberalism are defined, such as “the extension of market logic into previously non-economic realms,” and examples of this mentality in libraries are provided. For instance, ...

CFP: Beautiful Data: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections

Jan

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2014

Harvard University will be hosting Beautiful Data: A Summer Institute for Telling Stories With Open Art Collections, June 16 — June 27, 2014. Sponsored by the Getty Foundation, the institute will introduce participants to the “concepts and skills necessary to make use of open collections to develop art-historical storytelling through data visualization, interactive media, enhanced curatorial ...

RESOURCE: Basics of Creating a Scroll Kit Narrative

Jan

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2014

Miriam Posner (UCLA) has created a tutorial for using Scroll Kit, a simple drag-and-drop framework for creating “multimedia works in a scrolling format suitable for long-form narratives.” Posner also provides a second, advanced tutorial that concentrates on the parallax effect in Scroll Kit. Popular with online journalism outlets, Scroll Kit provides flexibility and allows users to easily ...

RESOURCE: CNI Videos On Digital Humanities Centers & Collecting Social Media

Jan

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2014

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released videos of presentations from its Fall 2013 meeting, including: Trends in Digital Scholarship Centers, Joan Lippincott (CNI), Harriette Hemmasi (Brown University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University) Capturing the Ephemeral: Collecting Social Media and Supporting Twitter Research with Social Feed Manager, Daniel Chudnov, Bergis Jules, Daniel Kerchner and Laura ...

RESOURCE: WebWise Now

Jan

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2014

WebWise Now, a pilot project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services in support of its annual WebWise conference and developed by the PressForward Initiative at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (RRCHNM), is a news aggregator intended for gallery, library, archive, and museum professionals. According to the site, “WebWise ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Center Associate Director, Princeton University

Jan

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2014

From the position description: Princeton University seeks an innovative leader to help build a nationally significant faculty research center that will support collaborative technology-based projects and will foster and develop inter-disciplinary and trans-disciplinary partnerships. This individual will work closely with the Faculty Director and advisory board to develop and support the infrastructure and intellectual community ...

JOB: Mellon Project Manager for Digital Initiatives, Hammer Museum

Jan

21

2014

From the job description: The Project Manager for Digital Initiatives will lead the Museum’s Mellon grant-funded project to develop dynamic digital content based on the Museum’s collections, exhibitions, and programs, as well as complementary resources and research from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The project will enable the Museum to initiate a new ...