CFParticipation: NARA’s Revised Digitization Strategy

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has requested input on its revised Digitization Strategy, which is part of the National Archives 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. Marcus Most, Director of the Digitization Division at the National Archives, notes: Our revised strategy outlines some key approaches to digitization at NARA: Cultivating partnerships with institutions and organizations from ...

JOB: Assistant Head Librarian, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)

From the announcement: The Assistant Head Librarian is responsible for managing day-to-day operations, including: Library Operations – Coordinate workflow, establish priorities and assign work to ISAW’s library staff.  Train new staff.  Manage special projects by devising appropriate workflows and providing supervision. Technical Services – Supervise the work of ISAW’s cataloging team, a group performing original ...

POST: For God’s Sake, Stop Digitizing Paper

Joshua Ranger has written a post on the AVPreserve blog that calls on archivists (and others) to examine their digitization practices and priorities. Arguing that audiovisual materials are in greater danger of obsolescence, Ranger declares, “We should agree to stop digitizing paper and other stable formats for a set period because, in a way, it ...

POST: Analysis of Privacy Leakage on a Library Catalog Webpage

Eric Hellman (unglue.it) has written up a recent presentation at the Code4Lib-NYC meeting in which he performed an “Analysis of Privacy Leakage on a Library Catalog Webpage.” Hellman selected a single webpage for a book in the NYPL online catalog and traced “all the requests my browser made in the process of building that page.” ...

RESOURCE: Bookworm for Movies and TV

Ben Schmidt (Northeastern University) has created an online tool that allows users to “investigate onscreen language in about 87,000 movies and TV shows, encompassing together over 600 million words.” Bookworm: Movies draws on a corpus from Open Subtitles and metadata from IMDb to chart changing language use in film and television dialogue, using the Bookworm ...

CFP: Accessible Future Workshop (Lincoln, NE)

Applications are now being accepted for the 2-day NEH-funded Accessible Future workshop, taking place November 14-15, 2014, in Lincoln, NE. The Accessible Future workshop is intended for humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals who wish to learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies This is ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Specialist, Carnegie Mellon

From the announcement: The Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, with grant funding from the A.W. Mellon Foundation in the Digital Humanities, is seeking applicants for a Research Staff position in the digital humanities. In particular, we are looking for applicants with skills and experience in one or more of ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship and Scholarly Communication Librarian, Smith College

From the announcement: Lead digital scholarship initiatives for the Smith College Libraries’ Teaching, Learning and Research (TLR) department, working closely with colleagues engaged in the development of digital scholarship at Smith.  Promote the adoption of new models of scholarship at Smith by developing methodologies and tools of the digital humanities and social sciences for research, ...

POST: Why Digital Humanities Researchers Support Google’s Fair Use Defense

Matthew Sag (Loyola University Chicago School of Law) has contributed a guest post for the Authors Alliance blog, explaining “Why Digital Humanities Researchers Support Google’s Fair Use Defense.” Sag co-authored the amicus brief “urging the Second Circuit Court of Appeals to side with Google in this dispute.” He explains: Digital Humanities scholars fervently believe that text mining ...

POST: The Networked Catalog

Matt Miller (NYPL Labs) has written a post introducing an experimental interactive network visualization of the New York Public Library’s catalog data. The NYPL Labs team have been “fascinated with our catalog and the possibilities its data represent,” and asked: [W]hat if the catalog had a “See All” button? What if you could see everything at once, ...

CFP: Beyond the Proto-Monograph: New Models for the Dissertation

A new section of the Mediacommons project known as #alt-academy is dedicated to “Graduate Training in the 21st Century.” Edited by Melissa Dalgleish (York University) and Daniel Powell (University of Victoria), the first “cluster” is exploring “how the prototypical graduate project in the humanities—the dissertation—is changing in the face of the digital turn, shifting job markets, and ...