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JOB: Digital Scholarship Programmer, Northeastern University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: This position will work as part of a team that includes the staff of the Digital Scholarship Group and Library Technical Services, to develop and expand support for digital scholarship, digital repository services, discovery tools, and related critical library services. We are looking for technically confident, fast learners who are equally comfortable ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, San Diego State University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: San Diego State University Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking individual to envision and create a digital scholarship lab in the library, in collaboration with SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative. This ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Cornell University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: Cornell University Library’s Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) unit seeks a Digital Projects Librarian who will coordinate digital collection projects and provide oversight for objectives of digital preservation. Reporting to the Digital Curation Services Lead, the Digital Projects Librarian will be an important member in the Digital Curation Services team, which ...

RECOMMENDED: The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities

Aug

13

2015

The newest issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly will feature an article by Alix Keener (University of Michigan) addressing questions around collaboration between digital humanities researchers and academic librarians. “The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities” is based on research conducted with participants from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries, which includes ...

POST: A Dataset for Distant-Reading Literature in English, 1700-1922

Aug

13

2015

Ted Underwood has written a post describing his work in collaboration with HathiTrust Research Center to create a dataset for scholars looking to get started with distant reading methods on 18th & 19th century literature (in English). Using the page-level wordcounts available in HTRC and pairing them with page-level metadata created to track the genre ...

RESOURCE: Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective

Aug

13

2015

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released a recording of “Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective,” a presentation by Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University), Lisa Spiro (Rice University), and Xuemao Wang (University of Cincinnati) given at the Spring 2015 meeting. The presentation shares results from a Mellon-funded ...

CFP: Journal of Open Humanities Data

Aug

13

2015

The Journal of Open Humanities Data invites submissions for publications “describing humanities data, software, and ontologies with high potential for reuse.” The journal, an open-access and peer-reviewed publication, has an open call for: 1. Metapapers describe humanities research objects with high reuse potential. This might include quantitative and qualitative data, software, algorithms, maps, simulations, ontologies ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Specialist, University of the Pacific

Aug

13

2015

From the announcement: The University of the Pacific seeks to hire a creative and collaborative Digital Humanities Specialist (DHS) to develop and manage strategies and infrastructure for curating digital and pre-digital content and data; provide computer programming support for projects; and author and/or co-author new digital humanities resources or scholarship. This is a full-time 20-24 ...

JOB: Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, Boston College

Aug

13

2015

From the announcement: Boston College Libraries seek a Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian to guide digital preservation and digital archiving activities for an increasing amount of born-digital and digitized content. Working closely with the Head of the Digital Library Program and in concert with team members and professionals across the libraries, he or she will ...

RECOMMENDED: Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction

Jul

2

2015

Miriam Posner (University of California, Los Angeles) has shared the text of her talk, “Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction,” given at the Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium. Posner suggests that libraries have an “underexplored opportunity” to help humanities scholars manage their research data, but notes the peculiarity of humanities data as compared to science or ...

POST: Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (series)

Jul

2

2015

Each year, Scott Weingart (Indiana University) analyzes the publicly available data surrounding the accepted submissions to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization’s Digital Humanities conference. This year, he’s drafted a series of posts that individually tackle different aspects of the data and we’ve reproduced the tl;dr for each here: Part 1: Part 1 is about ...