JOB: Digital Archivist (UT Southwestern Medical Center)

From the announcement: This position reports to the Manager of the UT Southwestern Medical Center Special Collections and Archives unit. Appointment rank will be commensurate with academic accomplishments and experience. This is a non-tenured faculty position. Department Name: UT Southwestern Medical Center Health Sciences Digital Library and Learning Center – Special Collections and Archives Unit. Experience ...

JOB: Metadata Project Coordinator for Archival Collections (Georgetown University)

From the announcement: The Metadata Project Coordinator for Archival Collections is assigned to the grant-funded project On These Grounds: A Project to Model and Share the Archival Materials and Data from Universities with Past Ties to Slavery (https://onthesegrounds.org/).  The term of the grant runs through December 2022.  This project, in partnership with Michigan State and the ...

EVENT: Day of DH 2021

This year’s Day of DH (#dayofdh2021) will be held on April 29. Organized by Loyola University Chicago and UCLA in USA, University of Guelph in Canada, and Università del Piedmont Orientale in Italy, this year’s theme is multilingual DH, intended “to open up conversation about projects being undertaken in the various languages and put together ...

EVENT: Open Humanities Data Forum

As part of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 17th Plenary Meeting, there will be free virtual event about humanities data. Scheduled for April 23 from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm UCT, the Open Humanities Data Forum will focus on the Journal of Open Humanities Data, with an emphasis on linguistics data. From the announcement: What counts ...

CFP: 2021 DLF Forum, DigiPres, and Learn@DLF Calls for Proposals

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) announces multiple calls for proposals for 2021 virtual events: DLF Forum (November 1-3), NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2021: Embracing Digitality (November 4), and Learn@DLF (November 8-10). From the call: Based on community feedback, we’ve made the decision to take our events online again in 2021. We look forward to new and ...

JOB: Associate Director of Digital Curation and Distinctive Collections (Barry University)

From the announcement: Senior leadership role that expands on the traditional portfolio of an Archivist through vision and support roles in planning, implementing, and managing an active, comprehensive scholarship services program that meets the instructional and research needs of the campus. Specifically, the associate director of DCDC strategically grows the library’s research support role in ...

JOB: Digitization Archivist (John F. Kennedy Library Foundation)

From the announcement: Project Background The archival collections at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (papers, oral histories, photographs, sound recordings, and moving image materials) are owned and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).  In 2005, the Kennedy Library and NARA leadership partnered with the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation to develop ...

CFP: ILiADS 2021

From the Call for Proposals: The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the sixth annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship! This year’s Institute, hosted by Macalester College, will be held virtually July 26-30, 2021. ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment for collaborative project teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students to build ...

RECOMMENDED: Fostering Community Engagement through Datathon Events: The Archives Unleashed Experience

In the latest issue (2021 15.1) of Digital Humanities Quarterly, authors Samantha Fritz (Department of History, University of Waterloo), Ian Milligan (Department of History, University of Waterloo), Nick Ruest (Library, York University), and Jimmy Lin (David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo) reflect on their work on Archives Unleashed. In “Fostering Community ...

POST: Queers (in DH) Read This

In a recent blog post, HASTAC Scholar and PhD candidate at the University of Kansas Rebekah Jo Aycock shared her experiences exploring Queer DH Projects. Relying on Twitter, Aycock (@AycockRebekah) compiled a set of Queer DH projects and resources. These resources include: #QueerDH Projects and Resources #QueerDH Projects and Resources was started by Corey Clawson. It was ...

RESOURCE: Immersive Scholar: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works

Authors Abigail E. Mann and Micah Vandegrift (NC State) have published a new open access resource, Immersive Scholar: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works. From the abstract: A Guidebook for Documenting and Publishing Experiential Scholarship Works offers a model for librarians, technologists, and scholars collaborating on the production of new forms of ...