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CFP: Call for Case Studies on Data Ethics from the Council on Big Data, Ethics & Society

Oct

15

2015

The Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society has issued a call for case studies written by researchers, practitioners, and educators on complex issues of data ethics. From the call: The Council is seeking researchers, practitioners, and educators to write case studies based on real-world examples that examine complex issues of data ethics. A case study should ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Humanities training through DLF & DHSI

Oct

15

2015

The Digital Library Federation has announced a partnership with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute to provide discounts to the summer digital humanities training programs to all affiliated with its member organizations. Additionally, they will provide full-tuition scholarships for five “DLF-DHSI Cross-Pollinator Fellows.” From the announcement: DLF recognizes the value of partnering with endeavors that seriously engage issues ...

JOB: Omeka Designer, People’s Archive of Police Violence, Cleveland

Oct

15

2015

From the announcement: People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland exists as an online archive to collect, preserve, and provide access to the stories, memories, and accounts of police violence as experienced or observed by Cleveland citizens. The archive, which currently holds more than 20 hours of primary-source audio and video footage, seeks a designer ...

JOB: Assistant or Associate Professor position in Digital Humanities, University of Cincinnati

Oct

15

2015

From the announcement: The University of Cincinnati invites applications for an Assistant or Associate Professor position in Digital Humanities with a specialization in Early Modern British Literature and Culture. This is a tenure-track position. Finalist must have PhD by August 14th, 2016. This is a joint appointment between the Department of English and Comparative Literature ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Kaiser Permanente, Portland, OR

Oct

15

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Librarian will develop, implement, lead, and manage a variety of digital library projects for the preservation, discovery, sharing, and integration of scientific information. This includes prioritizing work and managing deadlines for multiple digital projects with competing demands. Essential Functions: Design, test, and maintain digital library applications and associated tools. ...

RECOMMENDED: Get Involved in the National Digital Platform for Libraries

Sep

10

2015

In a guest post on the LITA blog, Emily Reynolds and Trevor Owens (IMLS) detail digital library funding opportunities under the National Digital Platform program. They draw out the themes of this spring’s IMLS Meetings around opportunities and gaps in US digital library infrastructure and link those themes to the current finding opportunities. These themes are: Engaging, ...

POST: Digital humanities might never be evenly distributed

Sep

10

2015

In a blog post titled, “Digital humanities might never be evenly distributed,” Ted Underwood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) considers the different ways in which digital humanities infrastructure, support, and collaboration work (or don’t work) across constituencies in institutions. He posits that DH can be understood “as an institutional achievement that happens to exist on some ...

RESOURCE: AHA Publishes Guidelines for Evaluation of Digital Scholarship

Sep

10

2015

In a post at the AHA blog, Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Initiatives Seth Denbo, outlines the AHA’s new guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship: The guidelines encourage departments to evaluate such work on its scholarly merits: “Work done by historians using digital methodologies or media for research, pedagogy, or communication should be evaluated for ...

RESOURCE: Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

Sep

10

2015

JADH released the first issue of the Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities on September 2nd. From Editor-In-Chief Charles Muller’s introduction to the issue: In this issue we present eight articles that deal with various issues in Digital Humanities, authored by both local Japanese scholars and researchers from abroad. The articles in this ...

JOB: Humanities Data Curator, University of California, Santa Barbara

Sep

10

2015

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services (CMS), the Humanities Data Curator has primary responsibility for the planning, implementation, and ongoing production of digital collections and scholarly initiatives in support of digital humanities scholarship and artistic production on campus to ensure their high functionality and discoverability through the flow and ...

JOB: Coordinator of the Scholarly Communications Design Studio, University of Connecticut

Sep

10

2015

From the announcement: The Scholarly Communications Design Studio Coordinator is a new interdisciplinary position created to provide leadership and coordination for design project development and engage with faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and the broader University community across all UConn campuses to facilitate and promote design thinking in digital scholarship. The Scholarly Communications Design Studio Coordinator ...