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POST: Visualize It: Uncertainty

Mar

22

2018

In a post at Hack Library School entitled “Visualize It: Uncertainty,” Sarah Davis discusses Alberto Cairo’s work in representing uncertainty in data visualization. Davis highlights Cairo’s treatment of “graphicacy,” and what creators of visualizations might assume about their audiences and the skills and attention they bring. It is easy it is to jump to conclusions in ...

POST: DLF Joins Library Publishing Coalition as Strategic Affiliate

Mar

22

2018

The Digital Library Foundation announced last week that it will become a Strategic Affiliate to the Library Publishing Coalition. DLF is pleased to join the Library Publishing Coalition in promoting research and supporting vibrant digital publishing practices as a strategic affiliate. Central to DLF’s mission is advancing research, learning, social justice, and the public good through the creative ...

CFP: BitCurator Users Forum 2018

Mar

22

2018

The BitCurator Consortium will hold its BitCurator Users Forum 2018, Living on the Edge: Extending Digital Forensics into New Sectors September 13-14 at the University of California, Los Angeles. From the call for proposals: As cultural heritage institutions borrow and adapt forensic techniques from criminal investigation, repurposing these context-specific forensic tools raises new questions and possibilities ...

CFP: Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities 2018 (COMHUM 2018)

Mar

22

2018

Department of Language and Information Sciences (SLI) at the University of Lausanne is organizing a Workshop on Computational Methods in the Humanities to take place June 4-5, 2018. From the call: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers involved with computational approaches in the humanities with the objective of stimulating the research ...

OPPORTUNITY: Mentors Needed for Spectrum Scholars

Mar

22

2018

In a post on the ACRL Insider, David Connolly (ACRL) announced an opportunity for librarians to mentor a member of this year’s major cohort ALA Spectrum Scholar through the ACRL Dr. E.J. Josey Spectrum Scholar Mentor Program. Mentors will be responsible for: contacting the Spectrum Scholar on a regular basis (averaging at least once a month is ...

JOB: Head of Preservation and Digitization, Washington University in St. Louis

Mar

22

2018

From the announcement: Under the direction of the Associate University Librarian for Special Collections Services Division, is responsible for the development and operation of a library-wide, comprehensive preservation and digitization program. Leads and manages all preservation/conservation and digitization efforts, including the management of general and special collection care and digitization activities, preservation/digitization lab and services, ...

JOB: Scholarly Communication Librarian, University of Albany

Mar

22

2018

From the announcement: The University at Albany Libraries seek an enthusiastic, knowledgeable, creative librarian to serve as Scholarly Communication Librarian. This position reports to the Director of Scholarly Communication/Head, Dewey Graduate Library. Responsibilities: Develops and implements a program and policies to provide data management plan consultation services and coordinate data curation Provides outreach to faculty ...

RECOMMENDED: Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race

Feb

15

2018

Emily Drabinski (Long Island University) has published “Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race,” a review of Safiya Umoja Noble’s (University of Southern California) forthcoming Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Drabinski’s review draws attention to the ways infrastructures can be visible or invisible ...

POST: What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like

Feb

15

2018

Jennifer Howard (EdSurge) has written an article entitled “What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like,” detailing the recent NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ Meeting in celebration of its ten years in existence. The program featured talks by ODH grant recipients, discussion of the broader history of humanities computing and contemporary DH, and a keynote ...

POST: University Futures, Library Futures: a multi-dimensional model of US higher education institutions

Feb

15

2018

Rona Stein (OCLC) has published a post on the Hanging Together blog entitled “University Futures, Library Futures: a multi-dimensional model of US higher education institutions,” which reports on a collaborative project between OCLC and Ithaka S+R, supported by the Mellon Foundation. The project involved developing a model and a framework for use in “exploring emerging ...

EVENT: 2018 Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts and Humanities

Feb

15

2018

The 2018 Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts and Humanities will take place on April 10, 2018 from 12:00pm-5:00pm EST. The theme for this year’s Virtual Symposium is “Users of Arts & Humanities Digital Collections.” Digital libraries and archives enable Internet users to access entire worlds of information at their fingertips. Who are these ...