Zach Coble ← dh+lib ← Page 15

OPPORTUNITY: DLF Conference Scholarships

Aug

20

2013

The Digital Library Federation, the Association of Research Libraries, and Electronic Resources and Libraries have announced a fellowship program to help offset costs to attend the DLF Forum, to be held in Austin from November 4–6, 2013. ARL/DLF Forum Fellowship for Underrepresented Groups Five fellowships to promote diversity at the DLF Forum. Fellowships will provide ...

POST: A Kind of Skepticism Humanists Should Hold On To

Aug

20

2013

Ted Underwood, Associate Professor of English at the University of Illinois, continues his examination of some of the areas of overlap between the humanities and more quantitative disciplines. Underwood’s main concern is that numbers tend to distract the eye. If you quantify part of your argument, critics (including your own internal critic) will tend to ...

JOB: GeoSpatial Data Curator, University of California, Santa Barbara

Aug

20

2013

From the position announcement: The GeoSpatial Data Curator contributes to the design and delivery of services and content supporting the Map & Imagery Laboratory (MIL) including, but not limited to, the Alexandria Digital Library Gazetteer (a global placename dictionary) and a Fedora-based repository for aerial photography and other digital collections in MIL. Working closely with ...

POST: Refining the Problem — More work with NYPL’s open data, Part Two

Aug

20

2013

In part II of his experiment to create an index of items using the New York Public Library’s What’s on the menu? data set, Trevor Muñoz discusses his work with the data and some of the lessons he learned. Muñoz used the Open Refine tool and, finding the NYPL data set too large to easily ...

RESOURCE: Library Publishing Toolkit

Aug

6

2013

The Library Publishing Toolkit examines the “broad and varied landscape of library publishing through discussions, case studies, and shared resources. From supporting writers and authors in the public library setting to hosting open access journals and books, this collection examines opportunities for libraries to leverage their position and resources to create and provide access to ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Specialist, Getty Research Institute

Aug

6

2013

From the position announcement: The Getty Research Institute (GRI) seeks a creative, technology-grounded person with a background in art history and/or computer science to conceptualize, advise, and coordinate digital humanities projects and collection digitization projects. Reporting to the GRI Deputy Director, the position will interact with a diverse range of collaborators including resident scholars, curators, ...

CFPapers: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies 2014 Conference

Aug

6

2013

The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies is accepting paper proposals for its 2014 conference, to be held March 19 – March 22 in Williamsburg, VA. Our readers might be interested in submitting papers to the panels on “Digital Approaches to the Material” and “Practicing Digital Pedagogy.” Deadline for paper submissions is September 15, 2013. dh+lib ...

CFProposals: Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science

Aug

6

2013

The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science is accepting proposals for individual papers, entire panels or roundtable sessions. The conference will take place December 6-8, 2013, at DePaul University. Panels will consist of three papers and a commentator/moderator, although other formats are possible. Panel proposals should include a title and brief description of ...

RESOURCE: Four P’s of Digital Project Outreach

Aug

6

2013

Sheila Brennan, Associate Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, shares her cheat sheet from talks she gave on the four P’s of digital project outreach at the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ meeting and the recent One Week | One Tool summer institute. ...

RECOMMENDED: Serendip-o-matic, From the One Week | One Tool Team

Aug

6

2013

Twelve digital humanists gathered from Sunday July 28 – Saturday August 3, 2013, for One Week | One Tool, a summer institute sponsored by the NEH Office of Digital Humanities and held at the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, to create a new digital humanities tool. The idea was to ...

POST: Bringing Hidden Collections to Light with Viewshare

Aug

6

2013

In an interview on The Signal conduced by Camille Salas, Julie Miller, historian at the Library of Congress, discusses her work creating a Viewshare “view,” a project that examines 18th and 19th century maritime documents. As a collection, these clearances, bills of health, receipts of payments of customs and lighthouse duties, bills of lading, and ship ...