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JOB: Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship (University of Pennsylvania)

Nov

16

2023

From the Post: Job Description Responsibilities In collaboration with the AVP for Technology and Digital Initiatives, responsible for the overall vision, planning, development, implementation, advancement, and assessment of research data and digital scholarship services and associated projects of the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship. In addition to intensive outreach activities, the Director will ...

JOB: Institutional Repository and Digital Scholarship Coordinator (SJSU)

Nov

16

2023

From the Post: Key Responsibilities Coordinates access to the SJSU ScholarWorks institutional repository (IR) by creating metadata, uploading digital files in appropriate formats, and designing the public display of the database content. Administers the IR platform, leveraging existing tools and/or developing new software solutions to improve and enhance functionality. Identifies and recommends innovative strategies and ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (Ramapo College of New Jersey)

Nov

16

2023

From the Post: Job Summary: Under the general supervision of the Library Dean, the Digital Scholarship Librarian provides leadership, program management, and development of the College’s digital humanities and scholarship programs and support for digital scholarship to the larger College community. Examples of Duties Lead faculty in developing digital/technology based modes of scholarship that support ...

RECOMMENDED: Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities

Sep

22

2023

“Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities: An Analysis of DH Courses in LIS Education,” by Chris Alen Sula (Pratt Institute) and Claudia Berger (Sarah Lawrence College), provides a look at DH courses offered in LIS programs in light of the growth DH has seen since 2014 when it was identified as one of the ...

RECOMMENDED: DHQ Issue 17.2

Sep

22

2023

The most current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), issue 17.2, focuses on Critical Code Studies and Tools Criticism, which the editors define as “the application of the hermeneutics of the humanities to the interpretation of the extra-functional significance of computer source code. ‘Extra’ here does not mean ‘outside of’ or ‘apart from’ but instead ...

POST: The Data Sitters Club #19: Shelley and the Bad Corpus

Sep

22

2023

DCS#19 of The Data Sitters Club, a project that applies “digital humanities computational text analysis tools and methods” to a popular book series from the 1990s, looks at the corpus of works that make up the collection. The author of this chapter, “Shelley and the Bad Corpus,” Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University), worked with Prof. Shelley ...

RESOURCE: Text on Maps Help Guide

Sep

22

2023

Text on Maps has collected pieces of text from 57,000 georeferenced maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection and made them searchable with mapKurator, allowing users to search within the contents of text on maps, rather than just the metadata. From the site: “While library patrons have become used to searching books via their content ...

CFP: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Virtual Professional Development Program

Sep

22

2023

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section’s Professional Development Committee (PDC) has announced a call for proposals for its 2023 DSS virtual professional development series. The series is a collaboration between the Outreach Committee and the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and will focus on topics identified from a recent survey of the DSS community. Proposals will ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Utah

Sep

22

2023

The Digital Humanities Utah Executive Committee is currently accepting proposals for the 8th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU8) to take place February 23-24, 2024. Session formats include panel presentations, complete panels, roundtables, and hands-on workshops, and suggested topics of interest include computational and digital approaches to humanistic research, humanistic examinations of the computational and the ...

RESOURCE: Digital Labor Syllabus by Miriam Posner

Apr

21

2023

This semester, Dr. Miriam Posner (UCLA) is teaching a digital humanities undergraduate course, DH150: “Digital Labor.” Her open syllabus offers a thoughtful response to current issues and conversations at the intersections of technology, power, gender, and race, and leveraging video storytelling, to explore ways in which we as workers can regain agency in the ever ...

RESOURCE: Digital Holocaust Memory and Education

Apr

21

2023

Digital Holocaust Memory has recently co-created a collection of recommendations for digital interventions in Holocaust memory and education. They have “worked with more than 80 representatives from a diverse range of academic disciplines, Holocaust institutions across the world, and wider GLAM, creative and technical professionals” to create the collection, presented in multiple reports. From the ...