RECOMMENDED: Comics and the Digital Humanities

Roger Todd Whitson (Washington State University) and Anastasia Salter (University of Central Florida) introduce the current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on Comics as Scholarship with an article entitled “Comics and the Digital Humanities.” In this piece, the authors, who edited the special issue, explore the tension between print and digital with regard to the ...

PROJECT: Rosa Parks Collection Now Online

In a post at the Library of Congress Blog, Erin Allen announced the online launch of the Rosa Parks Papers. The website includes nearly 2,500 digitized photographs, letters, and documents from the collection, which was opened to researchers in 2015. From the collection description: The papers of Rosa Parks (1913-2005) span the years 1866-2006, with the bulk ...

POST: The Digital Liberal Arts at Occidental College

In a Contribute post at the Digital Library Federation blog, Daniel Chamberlain (Occidental College) details the collaborative work that led to the development of his institution’s conception of the Digital Liberal Arts. The Center for Digital Liberal Arts (which Chamberlain directs) partnered with the Library and other campus groups to develop a program that connected the curriculum ...

POST: Three-Dimensional Science Fiction: Visualizing IF Magazine Covers (1952-1974)

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University Libraries) has written a post on visualizing two-dimensional images in three-dimensional space using cover images from the IF Magazine archive as a dataset. The tutorial walks users through gathering a dataset of images, preparing them for visualization, and using ImageJ to explore the images in three-dimensional space. Padilla details the various tools and commands necessary ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Research Coordinator, Penn State University Libraries

From the announcement: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seeks creative, forward-thinking individuals to apply for the full-time, three-year appointment as Digital Scholarship Research Coordinator. This faculty librarian will play a critical role in project and service development to strengthen digital scholarship at Penn State. The successful candidate will be conversant with a variety of pertinent ...

JOB: Digital Asset Librarian, Philadelphia Museum of Art

From the announcement: The Philadelphia Museum of Art is currently seeking a Digital Asset Librarian to activate and expand access to our world-class art collections and the digital media that is produced from them. Working under the general direction of the Arcadia Director of the Library and Archives and in close collaboration with the Information ...

JOB: Data Visualization Specialist, Georgia Institute of Technology

From the announcement: The Georgia Tech Library is looking for a Data Visualization specialist to join our team! This individual should be knowledgeable, creative, and resourceful as they will have the exciting opportunity to take the lead role in defining, developing, implementing and managing data and visualization services on behalf of the Library. Applicants for ...

JOB: Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion, Pepperdine University

From the announcement: The Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation and Conversion plays a leading role in the presentation of Pepperdine’s unique collections and scholarly output to the world. The Librarian works closely with special collections and university archives personnel to identify, research, and prioritize materials for ingest into digital collections, which are powered by CONTENTdm. ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Administrator, Indiana University-Purdue University

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Administrator is responsible for the planning, administrative management, implementation, creation and maintenance of access and discovery portals (Web sites), and monitoring of the library’s digital initiatives and university digital archives. Including the development and implementation of policies and procedures related to the acquisition, arrangement, description, and processing of materials ...

RESOURCE: staticAid: A Static Site Generator for Archival Description

Hillel Arnold (Rockefeller Archive Center), has written a blog post, “Introducing staticAid: A Static Site Generator for Archival Description” that describes an approach to creating static web pages for archival finding aids using the ArchivesSpace REST API and Jekyll. He explains: I’ve termed this a “thought exercise in code” since this was really a way for me ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Awards

Voting for the 2015 round of Digital Humanities Awards: Highlighting Resources in Digital Humanities opened this week. Participants can vote for their favorite projects and pieces in four categories: Best use of DH for Fun, Best DH Tool of Suite of Tools, Best Blog Post or Series of Posts, Best DH Data Visualization, and Best Use DH ...