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JOB: Digital Technologies Librarian at Hamilton College

Apr

19

2018

From the announcement: Hamilton College and its Library and Information Technology Services (LITS) division are trailblazers in supporting teaching, learning and faculty/student scholarship. In addition to the support provided for traditional library and IT services, LITS staff are actively engaged in efforts to support digital scholarship in innovative ways, including through the internationally recognized Digital ...

POST: Social Data Initiative

Apr

12

2018

The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) has announced a new initiative to enable researchers to study Facebook data: Recent revelations about the abuse of Facebook data and spread of disinformation make clear that social media can have negative ramifications for society. Today the SSRC begins an extraordinary Social Data Initiative at the frontiers of digital ...

RESOURCE: Creating Web APIs with Python and Flask

Apr

12

2018

The Programming Historian has published Patrick Smyth’s (CUNY) new tutorial on creating web APIs. The guide aims to teach users how to make their data more accessible. The goals of the lesson are to: Learn what an API is and when you should use one. Learn how to build a web API that returns data ...

OPPORTUNITY: Join the Wikimedia Foundation as an Open Web Fellow

Apr

12

2018

The Wikimedia Foundation is accepting applications for the 2018–19 Open Web Fellowship program. From the announcement: The Open Web Fellowship program seeks to increase public awareness and understanding of internet policy issues, support and enable career paths in the internet policy and advocacy sectors, and celebrate and nurture a vibrant network of internet advocacy organization… ...

CFP: Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies

Apr

12

2018

The Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies has issued a call for papers for an upcoming issue on Evidences, Implications, and Critical Interrogations of Neoliberalism in Information Studies. Edited by Marika Cifor (Bowdoin College) and Jamie A. Lee (University of Arizona), submissions may address: Increasing challenges to information ethics; Shifting practices among community and ...

CFP: The Connected Past

Apr

12

2018

Submissions are open for the 2018 Connected Past conference, scheduled for December 6–7 in Oxford, UK. From the call: We welcome submissions of abstracts on the topic of spatial and temporal network approaches. We particularly welcome abstracts that address the challenges posed by the use of or apply network approaches in historical/archaeological research contexts, welcoming ...

POST: Evaluating Digital Humanities Beyond the Tenure Track Parts 1 and 2

Apr

5

2018

Beth Seltzer (Bryn Mawr College) has authored two posts on evaluating work in the digital humanities, as part of a series of MLA Committee on Information Technology blog posts. Part 1, “For Employees” and part 2, “For Employers,” focus on ways to evaluate the work of “alt-ac” and “other digital humanities professionals not working in traditional tenure-track ...

RESOURCE: Hacking heritage: understanding the limits of online access

Apr

5

2018

Tim Sherratt (University of Canberra) has submitted a pre-print of a chapter he authored, “Hacking heritage: understanding the limits of online access,” to Humanities Commons. The chapter will be published in The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites. From the abstract: As cultural heritage collections become available ...

RESOURCE: Shifting to Data Savvy: The Future of Data Science In Libraries

Apr

5

2018

Matt Burton (University of Pittsburgh), Liz Lyon (University of Pittsburgh), Chris Erdmann (North Carolina State University), and Bonnie Tijerina (Data & Society) have shared a project report, “Shifting to Data Savvy: The Future of Data Science In Libraries,” via D-Scholarship, the institutional repository of the University of Pittsburgh. From the abstract: The Data Science in ...

CFP: Access, Control, and Dissemination in Digital Humanities

Apr

5

2018

Richard Mann and Shane Hawkins (both Carleton University) have issued a call for chapter proposals for a volume they will edit for Routledge: Access, Control, and Dissemination in Digital Humanities. From the CFP: While DH is seen by some as especially interdisciplinary or more conducive to group work, linked data, and open research, including both ...

EVENT: Emory Digital Humanities Symposium: DH for the Study and Teaching of South Asia

Apr

5

2018

The Emory Digital Humanities Symposium: DH for the Study and Teaching of South Asia will be held April 6-7, 2018, at Emory’s Woodruff Library in Atlanta, with presentations live-streamed. As per the symposium website, the event aims to cover “newly formed approaches to digital humanities (DH) in the field of South Asian Studies”: In the case ...