Roxanne Shirazi ← dh+lib ← Page 12

CFP: Digging into Data Challenge

Mar

10

2016

The fourth Digging into Data Challenge has been announced, featuring “expanded international funding and opportunities” for the international competition. This year, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) joins a consortium of international funders from Europe, North America, and South America to support “research projects that use ‘big data’ sources and methodologies to address ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Congress 2016

Mar

10

2016

A call for papers for Digital Humanities Congress 2016, to be held at the University of Sheffield, September 8-10, has been issued. The conferences will be hosted by the University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute, with the support of centerNet. Organizers welcome papers, sessions, and posters on “all aspects of the digital humanities,” providing some ...

JOB: Developer for Digital Scholarship, Wake Forest University

Mar

10

2016

From the announcement: In partnership with the WFU Humanities Institute, this position will build and implement new web applications and sites for faculty and student related research projects. This position was created in part through an “Engaged Humanities” grant from the Andrew W. Mellon foundation, and is critical to the delivery of essential applications and service within Z. ...

POST: Introducing Documenting the Now

Feb

25

2016

Ed Summers (Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities) wrote a post explaining the background and genesis of the Mellon-supported Documenting the Now project. Developed in partnership with Chris Freeland (Washington University in St. Louis) and Bergis Jules (University of California at Riverside), the project has two main goals: The first is to develop an ...

RESOURCE: New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations

Feb

25

2016

The February 2016 issue of The American Historian features an article by Frederick W. Gibbs (University of New Mexico), “New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations.” In it, Gibbs argues for a critical analysis of data visualizations that comes from beyond the boundaries of the digital humanities: Many of the visualizations briefly mentioned ...

RESOURCE: The Frontiers of DH: Humanities Systems Infrastructure

Feb

25

2016

Recordings from the University of Canterbury’s seminar, “The Frontiers of DH: Humanities Systems Infrastructure,” held November 12, 2015, are now available on YouTube. The seminar featured talks from Alan Liu (University of California, Santa Barbara), Paul Arthur (Western Sydney University), and James Smithies (Kings College London), aimed to “start thinking about what humanities systems infrastructure is, what it ...

CFP: Building Capacity with Care: Graduate Students and DH Work in the Library

Feb

25

2016

The organizers of “Building Capacity with Care: Graduate Students and DH Work in Libraries,” a pre-conference workshop at the Digital Humanities 2016 conference (Kraków, 12-16 July 2016), have issued a call for participation. Led by workshop instructors Alan Pike (Emory University), Dawn Childress (University of California, Los Angeles), Smiljana Antonijevć (Pennsylvania State University), Jim McGrath (Brown ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Specialist, Bryn Mawr College

Feb

25

2016

From the announcement: The Library & Information Technology Services (LITS) department of Bryn Mawr College seeks a creative and innovative individual to serve in the new position of Digital Scholarship Specialist. The Digital Scholarship Specialist will work with faculty, students, and staff in the exploration, implementation, and assessment of multimodal digital scholarship. Key to the ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Haverford College

Feb

25

2016

From the announcement: Creatively engages in support of faculty and students involved in digital scholarship. Participates in the development of digital projects and collections by providing a full range of reference, instruction, and collection development/management, preservation, and metadata services for all areas of digital scholarship.. Supports and serves as a resource to colleagues in developing ...

POST: ‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously

Jan

21

2016

Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) has shared the text of his talk at MLA2016, “‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously,” in which he considers the place of the digital products of mass-digitization efforts within the practice of bibliography and scholarly editing. Cordell posits that the digitized texts should themselves be considered a new edition: ...

POST: Crisscrossing Borders: GO::DH Regional Networks in Dialogue

Jan

21

2016

Élika Ortega (University of Kansas) has shared a version of her talk at MLA2016, “Crisscrossing Borders: GO::DH Regional Networks in Dialogue,” in which she reflects on recent discussions about diversity in the digital humanities. Ortega provides “an ecology of knowledges in DH,” drawing attention to the situatedness of DH work as she explores the way ...