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RESOURCE: Beyond the Scanned Image: A Needs Assessment of Scholarly Users of Digital Collections

Jul

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2015

Harriet E. Green (University of Illinois) and Angela Courtney (Indiana University) authored an article “Beyond the Scanned Image: A Needs Assessment of Scholarly Users of Digital Collections” in the July 2015 issue of College & Research Libraries. The article “presents analysis of how humanities scholars use digital collections in their research and the ways in which digital ...

PROJECT: The Generative Literature Project

Jul

23

2015

Hybrid Pedagogy Publishing introduced the Generative Literature Project, “which is producing a crowdsourced, gamified digital novel about a murder.” The post also helps define the genre: …a specific form of literature which challenges some aspects of classical literature. Frequently associated with the power of the machine (read computer), generative literature is often understood as the production ...

OPPORTUNITY: New Online Courses in Digital Pedagogy

Jul

23

2015

Adeline Koh (Richard Stockton College) authored a post for ProfHacker about the Digital Pedagogy Lab‘s offerings including upcoming courses: Teaching with Twitter and Learning Online. Koh adds: What I greatly appreciate about the Digital Pedagogy Lab courses is that they have provided adjunct and student rates for all the classes. They are also short–each of them ...

JOB: Senior Project Manager, Digital Library Services and NYPL Labs

Jul

23

2015

From the announcement: At NYPL, we’re building a new kind of library that opens our vast collections to the public via responsive applications, linked data and APIs, and adventurous user engagement and crowdsourcing initiatives. In concert with digital leadership, and with NYPL’s expert community of curators, librarians, and data specialists, the Senior Project Manager will ...

JOB: Digital Projects Lab Manager, University of North Texas

Jul

23

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Unit supports the UNT Libraries with guidance and digital services including imaging, archival storage of electronic files, metadata development, and other activities as needed. Within the Unit, four full-time Digital Projects Lab staff members manage a large number of concurrent projects and employ 25 part-time student assistants to prepare ...

JOB: Web Archiving & Emerging Formats Librarian, Cornell University

Jul

23

2015

From the announcement: Cornell University Library’s (CUL) Acquisitions and E-Resources Licensing Services (AERLS) within Library Technical Services (LTS) is seeking a Web Archiving and Emerging Formats Librarian. Under the general direction of the Director of AERLS, the position performs daily operations, including management and development of workflows and services in emerging areas of acquisitions and ...

CFP: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

Jul

23

2015

Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has announced its second international digital scholarship conference: “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Public Scholarship,” which will take place on November 6-8, 2015. The theme for this year’s conference is “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Public Scholarship.” We encourage presentations that highlight forms of collaboration: between institutions of ...

POST: A Fun Way to Introduce DH Students to Dataviz

Apr

23

2015

In a new post, Miriam Posner (UCLA) shares a low-threshold activity to introduce students to data visualization techniques. Students are guided through the process of creating a simple quiz, collecting data, formatting the data in three formats, and exploring different visualization tools. Posner includes links to a variety of tutorials to get started. dh+lib Review This post ...

POST: Libraries Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World Through Mass Translation

Apr

23

2015

Kalev Hannes Leetaru (George Washington University) wrote a post for The Signal exploring the landscape of statistical machine translation (SMT) and outlining the advances made in the last few years to move toward a more “post-lingual society.” Leetaru provides an overview of mass translation projects with a particular focus on GDELT Translingual (Global Database of ...

CFParticipation: DLF Forum, 2015

Apr

23

2015

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) seeks proposals for the 2015 DLF Forum Program, to be held October 26-October 28, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia. Proposals are invited from “within the broad framework of digital collections, infrastructure, resources, and organizational priorities” and across several session genres including panel presentations, workshops, project updates, working sessions, snapshots, and poster-based community idea exchange. ...

RESOURCE: Web Writing

Apr

23

2015

A new volume in the University of Michigan Press’s Digital Humanities series has been published. Web Writing: Why and How for Liberal Arts Teaching and Learning, edited by Jack Dougherty and Tennyson O’Donnell (Trinity College), is now freely available on the web (as a download or web edition) under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license, and ...