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JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Michigan State University

Jul

23

2013

Michigan State University is hiring for a Digital Humanities Librarian to “lead the MSU Libraries in support of new models of scholarship in the humanities, incorporating new technology-driven opportunities such as text mining, the study of media (art, film, music), linguistic corpora analysis, creation of shared digitized libraries, and new kinds of writing.” The librarian ...

JOB: Associate Archivist, Davidson College

Jul

23

2013

From the announcement: Davidson College, a nationally recognized liberal arts college, invites applications for the position of Associate Archivist. As a new practitioner, and member of the Archives and Special Collections team, you will be mentored by professionally active senior team members with over 55 years of experience at Davidson as you help expand our ...

RESOURCE: Textal Text Analysis App

Jul

23

2013

The University College London (UCL) Centre for Digital Humanities, in collaboration with the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, has released Textal. Textal is a free iOS app “that allows users to analyze documents, web pages and tweet streams, exploring the relationships between words in the text via an intuitive word cloud interface. The app ...

CFP: Humanities Intensive Learning + Teaching at MITH

Jul

23

2013

Following in the footsteps of their successful DH Winter Institute in January 2013, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities and the University of Maryland will again host the week-long training event. Henceforth, it will be called Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) and will be held in the summer. The planners of HILT, ...

CFP: HTRC UnCamp 2013 | HathiTrust Digital Library

Jul

23

2013

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is hosting its second UnCamp on September 8-9, 2013, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The UnCamp is “targeted to the digital humanities and informatics tool developers, researchers and librarians, and graduate students,” and is “part hands-on coding and demonstration, part inspirational use-cases, part community building, and a part ...

RESOURCE: Using Data Curation Profiles to Design the Datastar Dataset Registry

Jul

23

2013

The current issue of D-Lib Magazine includes an article by Sarah J. Wright, Wendy A. Kozlowski, Dianne Dietrich, Huda J. Khan, Gail S. Steinhart, and Leslie McIntosh titled, Using Data Curation Profiles to Design the Datastar Dataset Registry. From the abstract: The development of research data services in academic libraries is a topic of concern ...

RESOURCE: Crafting Linked Open Data for Cultural Heritage: Mapping and Curation Tools for the Linked Jazz Project

Jul

23

2013

In the current issue of The Code4Lib Journal, M. Cristina Pattuelli, Matt Miller, Leanora Lange, Sean Fitzell, and Carolyn Li-Madeo discuss using linked open data for the Linked Jazz project. The abstract reads: This paper describes tools and methods developed as part of Linked Jazz, a project that uses Linked Open Data (LOD) to reveal ...

PROJECT: The Dinner Party Wikipedia Project

Jul

23

2013

Alexandra Thom of the Brooklyn Museum discusses her experience with The Dinner Party Wikipedia project. The Dinner Party is an installation by Judy Chicago featuring the names of 1,038 women in history, and the project aimed to provide Wikipedia citations for all 1,038 women. Thom discusses the challenges she faced in the project, both in ...

We’re Looking for dh+lib review Editors-at-Large for Fall

Jul

17

2013

The dh+lib review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for Editors-at-Large for the fall semester. We’ve had a strong response for the spring and summer and have featured a lot of great content, and we are looking to carry the momentum into the fall. Sign ...

Make It New? A dh+lib Mini-Series — the ebook

Jun

28

2013

I am pleased to present Make It New? A dh+lib Mini-Series the ebook. It is available for download in epub and pdf format. This ebook is an experiment in publishing, demonstrating one way that openly-published works can be built upon and carried forward. It features the posts from Make It New? A dh+lib Mini-Series alongside ...

DH Happy Hour at ALA

Jun

25

2013

Join us on Sunday, June 30 from 5:30-7:30pm at La Cantina Grill for a Digital Humanities Happy Hour. We will make the trek to La Cantina Grill, which is a 5 minute walk from the convention center, after the Digital Humanities Discussion Group session (4:30-5:30pm on Sunday). So if you’re glued to your chair during ...