PROJECT: NYPL Labs Building Inspector

The New York Public Library Labs team launched Building Inspector last week, an app that extracts, corrects, and analyzes data from fire insurance maps from the 1850s and 1860s. The Building Inspector presents a computer-generated outline of a building and asks the user to decide whether the outline matches the actual building. This user input ...

RESOURCE: Library Publishing Directory

The Library Publishing Coalition has released the Library Publishing Directory (PDF and EPUB), which “provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions ...

POST: A Report from DPLAfest

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) formally launched last week during DPLAfest. Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) wrote a recap of the event, which  included announcements of a $1 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for public libraries training; the addition of three more service hubs in New York, Texas, and North Carolina; and the ...

JOB: Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship, Swarthmore College

From the position announcement: Initial goals for the Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship include conducting an environmental scan of academic departments, identifying potential scholarly projects, determining suitable tools and methodologies for use in each, and establishing priorities based on the content’s cultural, academic or historical value. Will manage the lifecycle of these identified projects, ...

JOB: Digital Curation Coordinator, University of Wisconsin-Madison

From the job description: Reporting to the Libraries’ Digital Preservation Officer, the Digital Curation Coordinator will be the principal liaison and technical support for the UWDCC’s Institutional Repository and digital publication services to University faculty, departments, and other librarians. The successful candidate will consult with the campus community about their data curation needs, and work ...

RESOURCE: Journal of Digital Humanities 2.2

Volume 2, Issue 2 of the Journal of Digital Humanities (JDH) examines communities of practice, which the JDH editors define as “socially constructed groups that form around shared interests or crafts, [and] often generate forms of tacit knowledge that circulate informally.” The issue features work of interest to dh+lib readers, such as “MediaNOLA: A Digital ...

POST: Experimental Typesetting with Neatline and Shakespeare

“Does a jagged, unjustified border make the text feel more tumultuous and Dionysian? Would the same text, printed with a justified margin, become more emotionally controlled and orderly?” David McClure (University of Virginia Scholars’ Lab) asks these questions as part of a digital typesetting experiment using Neatline and a single Shakespearean couplet, where each each ...

RESOURCE: Writing History in the Digital Age

The digitalculturebooks imprint of the University of Michigan Press has released Writing History in the Digital Age, edited by Kristen Nawrotzki (Heidelberg University of Education) and Jack Dougherty (Trinity College). The volume is born-digital and open access, and used CommentPress to facilitate open peer review. Readers can view the final online version, the CommentPress version, ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Librarian, Marshall University

From the job description: As a member of the Special Collections Department team, research, develop, document, and implement a digital preservation program to ensure preservation of all the University’s archival, manuscript, map, rare book, and other special collections of enduring value. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a cooperation between Liza Booker, Lisa Gayhart, Lauren ...

JOB: Director, Digital Initiatives and Services, NYPL

From the position announcement: Reporting to the Chief Library Officer of The New York Public Library, the Director, Digital Initiatives and Services leads the experimentation, implementation and portfolio management of the digital user experience. This person partners with internal and external stakeholders to identify, design, incubate and ensure delivery of an excellent user experience across ...

CFProposals: Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library

Proposals are currently being accepted for Data Driven: Digital Humanities in the Library. The conference, sponsored by the South Carolina Digital Library, the College of Charleston and the Charleston Conference, will be held June 20-22, 2014 in Charleston, South Carolina. Submissions are being accepted for lightning rounds (250-500 word abstract), long papers (abstract of 1500 ...