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OPPORTUNITY: Libraries and Museums Advance the Digital Humanities

Oct

13

2016

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced that it will now jointly fund Digital Humanities Advancement Grant projects with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The field of digital humanities is increasingly moving into the domains of library and museum professionals, such as curation, preservation, information architecture, metadata, and sustainability. We ...

PROJECT: Mediate: Identifying the Real Bestsellers of the 18th Century

Oct

13

2016

Eleanor Shevlin (West Chester University of Pennsylvania) has written a post for the Early Modern Online Bibliography (EMOB) blog introducing Mediate, a project based at Radboud University and led by Prof. Alicia C. Montoya. As Shevlin explains, “While prior lenses for studying the Enlightenment have focused on either the canonical, history-of-ideas texts or the forbidden, ...

RESOURCE: State of the Art Report on Open Access Publishing of Research Data in the Humanities

Oct

13

2016

A recent report, released as part of DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale (HAS) project, provides an overview of research data publishing in the humanities. The report, as a post from the project site explains, is the “first step in the design process of an Open Humanities Data Platform,” and is one of the eight “work packages” ...

RESOURCE: Tabulizer, an R package for working with Tabula

Oct

13

2016

The rOpenSci project has released tabulizer, an R package that provides bindings to the Tabula java library. Tabula is a tool for extracting data from PDF tables: If you’ve ever tried to do anything with data provided to you in PDFs, you know how painful it is — there’s no easy way to copy-and-paste rows ...

JOB: Digital Library Developer, Vassar College

Oct

13

2016

From the announcement: The Vassar College Libraries seek a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and experienced professional for the position of digital library developer. We are looking for a creative problem-solver with a passion for libraries who enjoys the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions that will bring our digital scholarship and library technology services to new ...

POST: Whither TEI? The Next Thirty Years

Sep

22

2016

Just in time for the Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Inititative (TEI) Consortium slated to begin next week in Vienna, Martin Mueller (Northwestern University) has written “Whither TEI? The Next Thirty Years,” in which he takes “a critical look at the TEI, focusing on shortcomings and on what should be done if the TEI ...

RESOURCE: Annotran, an Open-Source Translation Tool Based on Hypothesis

Sep

22

2016

The Open Library of the Humanities has announced Annotran, an open-source translation tool based on the Hypothes.is web annotation tool. Just as hypothes.is allows users to collaboratively annotate the web, Annotran will facilitate collaborative translation of webpages. Annotran was developed by Marija Katic and Martin Paul Eve in the Centre for Technology and Publishing at ...

RESOURCE: Software Citation Principles

Sep

22

2016

A new article by Arfon M. Smith (GitHub, Inc.), Daniel S. Katz (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), Kyle E. Niemeyer (Oregon State University), and the FORCE11 Software Citation Working Group posted on PeerJ lays out six priciples of software citation, arguing that “software should be cited on the same basis as any other research product.” ...

CFP: 2016 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities & Computer Science (deadline extended)

Sep

22

2016

The organizers of the 2016 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (November 11-13, 2016) have extended the call for papers and poster presentations: The 2016 theme is “New Directions,” and we invite submissions on any research broadly related to Digital Humanities and Computer Science work applied to humanistic research, with a particular focus ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian, Michigan State University

Sep

22

2016

From the announcement: The Michigan State University Libraries currently has a posting for a Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian, Librarian I, posted on MAP (MSU Applicant Page). Posting 3981: Reporting to the Head of the Digital Scholarship & Curation Unit, outreach, branding and coordination of digital scholarship services will be a significant and immediate focus for ...

RECOMMENDED: The Digital in the Humanities: An Interview with Ted Underwood

Aug

11

2016

The latest installment of Melissa Dinsman‘s series on the digital humanities for the Los Angeles Review of Books is an interview with Ted Underwood (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). In the conversation, Underwood discusses his dislike of the term “digital humanities,” which he takes to simply indicate “a vague interest in technology,” and notes that ...