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RESOURCE: Perseids: Experimenting with Infrastructure for Creating and Sharing Research Data in the Digital Humanities

Apr

20

2017

The latest issue of Data Science Journal includes an article from Bridget Almas (Tufts University), “Perseids: Experimenting with Infrastructure for Creating and Sharing Research Data in the Digital Humanities.” From the abstract: The Perseids project provides a platform for creating, publishing, and sharing research data, in the form of textual transcriptions, annotations and analyses. An ...

CFP: Current Research in Digital History 2018

Apr

20

2017

Current Research in Digital History 2018 will be held March 17, 2018 at George Mason University, in Arlington, VA. From the call for proposals: The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media invites submissions for the first annual Current Research in Digital History conference. Submissions should offer historical arguments and interpretations rather than showcase ...

CFP: 2017 LITA Forum

Apr

20

2017

The 2017 Forum of the Library Information and Technology Association will be held in Denver, Colorado from November 9-12, 2017. From their call for proposals: The Forum Committee welcomes proposals for full-day preconferences, concurrent sessions, workshops, or poster sessions related to all types of libraries: public, school, academic, government, special, and corporate. Collaborative, hands-on, and ...

OPPORTUNITY: 2017-18 Communications Fellowships at ADHO

Apr

20

2017

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has announced a call for applicants for their 2017-18 Communications Fellowships. Two positions are available, and fellows will: … write news releases, blog posts, and announcements about ADHO, its constituent organizations, and the broader digital humanities community; monitor and update ADHO’s social media presence; maintain its website; help ...

POST: Formulating Ambiguity in a Database

Mar

30

2017

“Formulating Ambiguity in a Database” is one of two posts published on the nodegoat blog to help illuminate the process of data modeling in the humanities. Drawing on insights learned through their workshops, the post aims to cover more fundamental questions that get to the heard of humanist’s concerns regarding structured data: As soon as ...

CFP: DLF Forum 2017

Mar

30

2017

The Digital Library Federation has issued a call for proposals for the 2017 DLF Forum, taking place in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania from Oct 23-35, 2017. This year’s conference will once again align with a Digital Liberal Arts Colleges Pre-Conference (October 22) and the Digital Preservation 2017 conference (October 25-26). The Forum traditionally has no set theme ...

CFP: Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives

Mar

30

2017

The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), in cooperation with the Andrew Mellon Foundation, has issued a call for proposals for Digital Edition Publishing Cooperatives: Working together, the Cooperatives will develop technical and human infrastructures to support the digital publication of documentary and scholarly editions and to provide for their long-term preservation, discovery, and ...

RESOURCE: NMC Horizon Report, 2017 Library Edition

Mar

30

2017

The New Media Consortium (NMC) Horizon Report > 2017 Library Edition was jointly released by the NMC, University of Applied Sciences (HTW) Chur, Technische Informationsbibliothek (TIB), ETH Library, and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) at the ACRL 2017 Conference last week. The report identifies “trends and technology developments” that drive the five-year ...

JOB: Head, Digital Scholarship Services, University of Oregon

Mar

30

2017

From the announcement: The Head of Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) is charged with developing DSS policies and procedures; coordination and management of DSS projects, budgets, and departmental workflow; and supervision of DSS personnel and Digital Scholarship Center (DSC) operations. The Head collaborates with others to strengthen library programs related to: digital scholarship services, digital collections, ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Trinity College

Mar

30

2017

From the announcement: Trinity College, located in Hartford CT, seeks to hire a Digital Scholarship Coordinator with expertise in digital methods, concepts, web-based tools, and project development across the divisions. The Coordinator will work with faculty and students to amplify excellent recent work in digital scholarship, and to develop new research projects. The ideal candidate ...

POST: The Practice of Play

Mar

2

2017

Tim Sherratt (University of Canberra) has posted the text of a recent keynote presentation, “The Practice of Play.” In it, Sherratt reflects on several of his playful “hacks”—projects like Headline Roulette, Closed Access, and Historic Hansard—and situates them within the larger context of digital humanities research, both within and outside of the academy. He also ...