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RESOURCE: Data Mining the Internet Archive Collection

Mar

18

2014

A new lesson by Caleb McDaniel on The Programming Historian focuses on downloading and analyzing records from the Internet Archive. From the description: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to download files from such collections using a Python module specifically designed for the Internet Archive. You will also learn how to use another Python module ...

JOB: Curator of Digital Collections, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Mar

18

2014

From the announcement: The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) is actively recruiting for the newly created position of Curator of Digital Collections. Founded in 1982, CHF is a collections-based non-profit organization that preserves the history and heritage of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences and technologies. The collections of rare books, archives, images, fine art, museum ...

POST: What Week Is It? Fair Use Week of Course!

Feb

25

2014

Kevin Smith (Scholarly Communications Officer, Duke University) introduces Fair Use week, taking place Feb. 24-28, and organized by the Harvard Library’s Office for Scholarly Communication. Smith contextualizes this celebration, noting that fair use: is today one of the most important underpinnings of scholarship. We argue about its scope sometimes, but we rely on it everyday. The ...

POST: Analyzing Historical History Dissertations

Feb

25

2014

Lincoln A. Mullen (Ph.D. Candidate, Brandeis University) has written a series of posts analyzing historical history dissertations using data from the Proquest Dissertations and Theses Database. Mullen was able to obtain two “dumps” from the database: From the MARC records that ProQuest gave me, I’ve been able to extract a number of fields, only some ...

RESOURCE: Combining Narrative Text, Information Visualization, and Computational Models [VIDEO]

Feb

25

2014

Elijah Meeks (Digital Humanities Specialist, Stanford University Library) recently gave a talk on “Combining Narrative, Model, and Information Visualization” at a joint meetup of the Bay Area D3 User Group and Data Visualization Group. Video of the talk, which also introduces some of the digital humanities projects at Stanford, such as Kindred Britain, is now online. ...

CFP: Bibliography for the 21st Century (MLA 2015)

Feb

25

2014

A call for proposals sponsored by the Libraries and Research discussion group and the Bibliography and Textual Studies discussion group of the Modern Language Association (MLA) has been issued on “Bibliography for the 21st Century”: Bibliography has long been integral to literary studies, textual studies, and book history. Not only does it serve an evidentiary ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, OSU Libraries

Feb

25

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Librarian will establish and grow a dynamic, multifaceted program that addresses the growing demand for digital arts and humanities support on campus. Working with arts and humanities scholars, faculty and students, the Digital Humanities Librarian will foster successful adoption and application of digital arts and humanities approaches to research, ...

JOB: Digital Collections Specialist, Library of Virginia

Feb

25

2014

From the announcement: The Library of Virginia, the archival agency for the Commonwealth of Virginia, is seeking a creative and innovative professional to serve as our Digital Collections Specialist. Reporting to the Digital Initiatives & Web Services Manager in the Information Technology Division, the individual selected for this position will work with the agency staff ...

CFParticipation: Taxonomy of DH Research Activities and Objects

Feb

4

2014

Librarians! An invitation to comment and provide feedback on a draft “Taxonomy of DH Research Activities and Objects” has been extended until February 9, 2014. The taxonomy, which is available as a Google doc, will be used by digital humanities resources such as DH Commons, Bamboo DiRT (Digital Research Tools), and DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure ...

JOB: Director of Digital Humanities and Social Science Lab, MSU

Feb

4

2014

From the announcement: The Department of History at Michigan State University seeks a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). The successful candidate will have knowledge of digital research methods and tools; experience developing collaborative research projects; strong oral and written communications skills; expertise ...

POST: Paris Review Interviews and Wikipedia

Feb

4

2014

Ed Summers (Library of Congress) has written a brief post about playing with interviews from the Paris Review and Wikipedia articles, and his attempts to use JSON-LD and D3 for network visualization. His post is a great example of the way that a passing interest in something can be an entry into new technology skills. It also demonstrates ...