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PROJECT: Founders Online

Jun

18

2013

The National Archives has beta launched Founders Online, a collection of over 119,000 transcribed and annotated documents from six of the major shapers of the United States: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and Alexander Hamilton. The site, a cooperation between National Historical Publications and Records Commission and the University of ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Baruch College

Jun

18

2013

From the position announcement: The successful candidate will lead the creation, maintenance, and stewardship of digital collections, including the digitization of special collections and other library materials and the implementation and maintenance of discovery tools related to these initiatives. The successful candidate will be responsible for recommending policies and best practices to assure access to ...

JOB: Digital Programs Archivist, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Jun

18

2013

From the job description: Manages an active mass digitization program, and provides leadership in the creation, management and delivery of digital content to meet the needs of the Atkins Library’s constituents. This includes digitization of text, image, audio, and video formats. Develops a digital program framework that includes creating policies, planning and implementing workflows, quality ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jun

18

2013

From the announcement: The successful candidate will bring a sense of inquisitiveness and strong problem-solving skills to the position, along with an aptitude for strategic thinking and sustainability planning, and a commitment to advancing the state of the art in digital scholarship in the humanities. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will manage a portfolio of digital ...

POSTS: Museums, Digital Preservation Policies, and Copyright

Jun

18

2013

Two recent posts address two important issues in museums: digital preservation policies and copyright. In a piece in The Signal, “Towards a Digital Preservation Policy For Museums,” Madeline Sheldon discusses her research into digital preservation policies, noting that, while libraries and archives tend to maintain published policies, she has only found one museum thus far that does ...

JOB: Director of DH Seed Lab, Arizona State University

Jun

4

2013

From the job announcement: As director, the successful candidate will be expected to work directly with researchers to define, develop, and/or analyze project design, scope, and/or needs; evaluate existing and/or emerging tools and technologies to identify potential uses in humanities research at ASU; and collaborate with other ASU units/agencies to understand and apply various technology infrastructures ...

RESOURCE: Crowdsourcing + Machine Learning: Nicholas Woodward at TCDL

Jun

4

2013

Nicholas Woodward, Software Developer at the University of Texas Libraries, shares the text of the talk he gave at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Woodward describes his novel approach for transcribing the Digital Archive of the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive, a collection of over 12 million pages: My approach looks to break up ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Rutgers University

Jun

4

2013

From the position description: The Digital Humanities Librarian will: – Provide leadership and instruction within the Libraries on the creation and curation of digital objects for the humanities in all formats, fostering collaboration among scholars, technologists, and information specialists. – Utilize the infrastructure of RUcore (Rutgers Community Repository) to archive, preserve, and present digital resources. ...

RECOMMENDED: Data curation as publishing for digital humanists

Jun

4

2013

Text and slides from a talk delivered by Trevor Muñoz, Assistant Dean for Digital Humanities Research at the University of Maryland Libraries, at the CIC Center for Library Initiatives conference. Muñoz presents an intriguing synthesis of a couple of growing trends in libraries – data curation and publishing. Data curation here is defined as “information work ...

RESOURCE: “What’s in it for Me?”; or, Collaboration is not an End in Itself

Jun

4

2013

In April, Brian Croxall, Digital Humanities Strategist at Emory University, delivered a talk at Case Western Reserve University as part of a colloquium on “Exploring Collaboration in Digital Scholarship.” As he described in his write-up of the talk, the heart of Croxall’s argument is the idea that collaboration is not an end in itself. Furthermore, If you ...

POST: Function over Form: understanding the TCP encoding philosophy

Jun

4

2013

Sarah Wingo from the Text Creation Partnership (TCP), a group of libraries that encode early printed books, outlines one of the Partnership’s basic rules for marking up texts: function over form. Serving the goal of creating searchable texts, “TCP aims to capture structural information which will be useful for intelligible display, informed searching, and intelligent navigation. ...