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POST: Maps (and other things) online

Nov

12

2015

Lise Summers (State Records Office of Western Australia) has shared a post about her institution’s migration of records from Aeon to AtoM. Summers describes the process of moving 6,600 digital objects and 7,200 images. Maps from the collection are now available online. AtoM has enabled new loading and viewing capabilities: In our old system, we were restricted ...

POST: When the Technology Changes on You

Nov

12

2015

Maha Bali (The American University in Cairo) authored a post on ProfHacker this week reflecting on how to handle changes to technology we use in teaching and teaching and learning from alterations to the user experience (Twitter’s shift from stars to hearts) to the loss of a tool (Zeega). She closes by extolling the benefits of hosting various ...

JOB: Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University

Nov

12

2015

From the announcement: The Columbia University Libraries seeks a motivated, collaborative, and forward-thinking professional to lead its Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS). CDRS works to increase the utility and impact of research produced at Columbia by creating, adapting, implementing, supporting, and sustaining innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, ...

CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities

Nov

12

2015

The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques has issued a call for proposals for their annual meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Calgary, May 30-June 1, 2016. The Society encourages “scholars, practitioners, and graduate students” to submit proposals “on all ...

POST: #contextiseverything Whyte Memorial Lecture 2015

Oct

1

2015

Jaye Weatherburn (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) authored a post summing up the Whyte Memorial lecture delivered by Ross Harvey (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia), “Keeping, Forgetting, and Misreading Digital Material: Libraries Learning from Archives and Recordkeeping Practice.” Harvey “extolled the benefits of archival principles, and called for them to be used for managing digital materials.” ...

POST: No More Excuses

Oct

1

2015

In “No More Excuses,” Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University) calls for the end of all-male panels in the digital humanities and points to several crowdsourced resources for locating women in DH: Build a Better DH Syllabus, Build a Better List of Code Experts, and Build a Better Panel. Wernimont concludes: There are no more excuses. ...

PROJECT: Open Library of Humanities

Oct

1

2015

The Open Library of Humanities announced the launch of their platform with an editorial by directors Martin Paul Eve and Caroline Edwards. Launched after more than two years of planning, with supporting membership funding, OLH represents “the seed of a scalable model for journal transition to open access in the humanities that does not rely on payment from authors ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACRL Virtual Meeting, Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group

Oct

1

2015

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group is sponsoring a free webinar about the integration of faculty research into planning into the planning and management of library-based DH centers. Join the webinar on Wednesday, October 21 at 3pm EST with guests Peter Logan (Temple University) and Liz Rodrigues (University of Michigan). You can register for the webinar ...

JOB: Lead Developer, Princeton University Center for Digital Humanities

Oct

1

2015

From the position announcement: The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is an interdisciplinary research center in the Princeton University Library. While the global digital humanities community is constantly defining and redefining itself, the CDH embraces an inclusive understanding of DH that respects and investigates the myriad ways digital methods and technologies are opening new avenues ...

JOB: Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Grinnell College

Oct

1

2015

From the announcement: The Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian will serve as academic liaison for Chinese and Japanese, Classics, German, Music, Russian, and Theatre and Dance, providing faculty contact, reference consultation with students and faculty, research literacy teaching, and collection development. In addition, this librarian will be responsible for consulting with faculty, staff, and students ...

CFP: Digital Blackness Conference, Rutgers University

Sep

24

2015

Rutgers University issued a call for papers for the Digital Blackness Conference to be held on April 22-23, 2016 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. What we might call the digital turn also has significant implications for how we study Blackness within and across fields and disciplines. What does Digital Black Studies mean? What are its ...