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JOB: Four Open-Rank Tenure Track Positions in Information Studies, Syracuse University

Aug

30

2018

From the announcement: Syracuse University’s School of Information Studies (The iSchool, ischool.syr.edu) seeks scholars and leaders to fill four open-rank tenure-track faculty positions to start in Fall 2019. Successful candidates will have a productive program of research in an information-related field and be able to contribute to the development of students and courses in our ...

JOB: Assistant Professor/Digital Archivist, Mississippi State University

Aug

30

2018

From the announcement: A tenure track faculty position providing innovative, dynamic, team-oriented responsibilities as Digital Archivist. Mississippi State University Libraries has a highly collaborative environment where excellence in job performance, scholarship, and service are valued and required. The successful candidate will assist in building the Libraries digital services and collections combining the technical skills necessary ...

JOB: Head of Scholarly Communication, Copyright & Publishing, Dartmouth College

Aug

30

2018

From the announcement: Working closely with Library leadership, library departments, and units across campus such as ITC, defines and develops a collaborative, coordinated program to provide the campus community with current information, education, expertise, and tools to support new models for the dissemination and tracking of the results of research, scholarship, and teaching. 20% Advises ...

What I’m Reading This Summer: Kristen Mapes

Aug

9

2018

Note: As the dh+lib Review editors work behind the scenes this summer, we have invited a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share with us what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. This post is from Kristen Mapes, Assistant Director of ...

What I’m Reading This Summer: Tierney Gleason

Aug

1

2018

Note: As the dh+lib Review editors work behind the scenes this summer, we have invited a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share with us what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. This post is from Tierney Gleason, Reference and Digital ...

What I’m Reading This Summer: Anna Kijas

Jul

12

2018

Note: As the dh+lib Review editors work behind the scenes this summer, we have invited a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share with us what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. This post is from Anna Kijas, Senior Digital Scholarship ...

POST: The Gospel of Unicode: Digital Love Letter(s) and Art Through Numbers

May

10

2018

Sarah Bond (University of Iowa) has written a blog post reflecting on a recent news item she reported in Hyperallergic discussing the proposed addition of over 2,000 hieroglyphs into Unicode. In “The Gospel of Unicode: Digital Love Letter(s) and Art Through Numbers,” Bond gives a brief introduction into the development of Unicode and its use ...

RESOURCE: FAIR Principles for Library, Archive and Museum Collections

May

10

2018

Lukas Koster and Saskia Woutersen-Windhouwer (both University of Amsterdam) have published an article in the Code4Lib Journal entitled, “FAIR Principles for Library, Archive, and Museum Collections: A Proposal for Standards for Reusable Collections“: In this article[2] we propose a body of requirements for making LAM collections findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR), as well as ...

RESOURCE: New NER Toolchain and Demo

May

10

2018

The Semantic Lab at Pratt Institute has unveiled a new Named Entity Recognition (NER) toolchain and demo, in which six NER tools are combined into a single “dockerized” server to “lower the difficulty in leveraging them.” The tools used are: DBpedia Spotlight Stanford NLP (using the english.muc.7class.distsim.crf.ser.gz classifier) NLTK trained on the Groningen Meaning Bank ...

CFP: Data in Digital Humanities (EADH Conference)

May

10

2018

The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) invites proposals for its inaugural annual conference, taking place December 7-9, 2018, at the National University of Ireland, Galway. The conference theme is “Data in Digital Humanities,” and the organizers seek topics including (but not limited to): Historical perspectives on data Relationships between information, archives, documents and data ...

CFP: Digital Scholarship: Expanding Access, Activism, and Advocacy

May

10

2018

The organizers of the 2018 Bucknell Digital Scholarship Conference (October 5-7, 2018) have issued a call for proposals for presentations addressing the theme, “Digital Scholarship: Expanding Access, Activism, and Advocacy.” Topics from the call include: Accessibility of digital platforms and technology Access to resources to engage in or produce digital scholarship Digital scholarship and social ...