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JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Cornell University

Mar

31

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Librarian will contribute to and provide leadership for a growing dynamic, multifaceted program that addresses the demand for digital scholarship support on campus, primarily in the College of Arts and Sciences. Working with arts, humanities, and social sciences scholars, faculty, and students, the Digital Humanities Librarian will foster successful ...

JOB: Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian, MIT

Mar

31

2016

From the announcement: The MIT Libraries seek a knowledgeable and enterprising librarian to join a growing team of liaisons developing new services and collaborations in digital scholarship. The Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian will support and collaborate with students and faculty doing research in history and other selected humanities disciplines. The successful candidate will engage ...

CFP: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

Mar

31

2016

Bucknell University announced its annual digital scholarship conference, taking place on October 28-30, 2016, with the theme: “Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration.” The organizers invite “proposals that explore or critique digital modes of scholarly, cultural, and political intersectionality. Special consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate how crossing institutional boundaries, whether within or beyond the university, can facilitate ...

CFP: How Did They Make That?

Jan

28

2016

Inspired by Miriam Posner’s “How did they make that?,” DHCommons Journal seeks proposals that provide “procedural descriptions of how to launch and/or maintain and exemplary aspect of a stable digital project.” The journal intends to publish 1-3 descriptions in each issue, following the examples of “Editorial Sustainability and Open Peer Review at Programming Historian” and “How ...

CFP: Project Proposals, Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship

Jan

28

2016

ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship) issued a call for project proposals for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship, to be held July 24-29, 2016, at Hamilton College: ILiADS offers participants a summer institute where they may develop projects as a team (faculty, student, librarian, technologist, other experts) and also interact with method ...

EVENT: The Fair Use Factors: Their History and Application

Jan

28

2016

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) will freely broadcast the webinar, The Fair Use Factors: Their History and Application, with copyright lawyer Ana Enriquez (Copyright X) on Thursday, February 25, 2016, 1:00 – 2:00 PM CST. The language of the fair use factors has changed very little since the nineteenth century, but the doctrine of fair ...

JOB: Head of the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship, University of Arizona

Jan

28

2016

From the announcement: The University Libraries seek a dynamic, innovative Head of the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship (ODIS), a position with the primary responsibility of providing leadership and strategic direction for digital innovation and stewardship within the broader context of the strategic plans of the University Libraries and the University of Arizona. ODIS ...

JOB: Informatics Project Coordinator, Virginia Tech

Jan

28

2016

From the announcement : The University Libraries of Virginia Tech seek a project coordinator for an expanding suite of informatics consulting services. This new position is part of a team of data and informatics consultants offering critical and sophisticated new technology development services that enhance the scholarly, scientific, and creative expression of researchers at Virginia Tech. ...

PROJECT: Open Syllabus Project

Jan

28

2016

Note from the dh+lib Review editors: Please see the updated version of this post. David Weinberger (Harvard Library Innovation Lab) announced the launch of the Open Syllabus Project (OSP) and its Syllabus Explorer in a recent blog post: The OSP is an open platform that so far has aggregated over a million syllabi. At the beta version of their ...

RESOURCE: Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians

Nov

12

2015

Laura B. Palumbo, Ron Jantz, Yu-Hung Lin, Aletia Morgan, Minglu Wang, Krista White, Ryan Womack, Yingting Zhang, and Yini Zhu (Rutgers University) have published “Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians” in the Journal of eScience Librarianship. From the abstract: In order to provide a better defined workflow and mission for research data ...

POST: Word Embedding Models

Nov

12

2015

Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern University) has shared two posts about word embedding models–“Vector Space Models for the digital humanities” and “Rejecting the gender binary“–on his blog. Each post explores facets algorithms that can be used in digital humanities research. The first post provides an overview to word embedding models, contrasting them with topic models: DHers use topic models because it ...