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RESOURCE: Metrics Toolkit

Feb

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2018

Robin Champieux (Oregon Health and Science University), Heather Coates (IUPUI), and Stacy Konkiel (Altmetric) have released a Metrics Toolkit for understanding “what a [scholarly] metric means, how it is calculated, and if it’s a good match for your research question.” Champieux, Coates, and Konikel describe the purpose of the toolkit: We developed the Metrics Toolkit ...

RESOURCE: A Digital Humanities Reading List: Part 1

Feb

1

2018

LIBER’s Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group has just released its first installment of “must-read papers, articles and reports.” The first theme focuses on policies and portfolios and includes Stewart Varner (UPenn) and Patricia Hswe’s (Andrew W. Mellon Foundation) article about DH in libraries and Bethany Nowviskie’s (DLF) “Skunks in the Library: A ...

RESOURCE: Digital Scholarship Resource Guide: Text Analysis

Feb

1

2018

Samantha Herron, a 2017 Junior Fellow at the Library of Congress, has written a post on The Signal detailing common forms of textual analysis. Herron describes techniques such as stylometry, “the practice of using linguistic study to attribute authorship to an anonymous text,” and topic modeling. Her summary also includes examples of tools like Voyant, ...

RESOURCE: Format Aside: Applying Beall’s Criteria to Assess the Predatory Nature of both OA and Non-OA Library and Information Science Journals

Feb

1

2018

The Idealis recently featured a College and Research Libraries article by Texas A&M librarians Joseph D. Olivarez, Stephen Bales, Laura Sare, Wyoma vanDuinkerken, that examines Jeffrey Beall’s criteria in determining if a publication is predatory. From the abstract: Jeffrey Beall’s blog listing of potential predatory journals and publishers, as well as his Criteria for Determining ...

CFP: Project Briefing Proposals

Feb

1

2018

The CNI Spring 2018 Membership Meeting welcomes project briefing proposals for its April 2018 event. Project briefings address: the state-of-the-art developments and issues of interest to the membership, as outlined in each year’s Program Plan. Management of data, digital content, and institutional information resources, digital preservation, innovations in teaching and learning, and infrastructure to support ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Scholarship Summer Internship

Feb

1

2018

dSHARP, Carnegie Mellon University’s digital scholarship center, is offering an eight-week paid summer internship for those interested in working on pre-existing projects. From the announcement: The Summer Intern will be expected to work on two to four pre-existing projects during their tenure, with the projects determined based on how their skills and interests best match ...

JOB: Social Sciences and Data Librarian, San Diego State University

Feb

1

2018

From the announcement: San Diego State University Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Social Sciences and Data Librarian. The Social Sciences and Data Librarian will provide outreach, research consultation, and library instruction in social science disciplines. The incumbent will support research data services ...

JOB: Research Data Specialist, Case Western Reserve University

Feb

1

2018

From the announcement: Working independently and with initiative, the Research Data Specialist position is a non-supervisory position that reports to the digital learning and scholarship team leader. The RDS will provide leadership and expertise in the areas of quantitative and qualitative data analysis, geospatial data visualization, working in collaboration with campus-wide initiatives around research data ...

JOB: Research and Instruction Librarian (2 Openings), Wellesley College

Feb

1

2018

From the announcement: Wellesley College seeks two highly motivated and creative social sciences Research & Instruction Librarians devoted to public service in a liberal arts college environment. We seek candidates who take an expansive approach to the work of libraries, to the possibilities afforded by information technologies for achieving the college’s goals for student and ...

First Things First: Conducting an Environmental Scan

Jan

31

2018

As a digital humanities librarian, E. Leigh Bonds (The Ohio State University) undertook an institutional environmental scan as the basis for assessment, identifying gaps, and developing recommendations. In this post, Bonds details her approach and framework, which prompted conversations and coordination across campus. In August 2016, I became The Ohio State University’s first Digital Humanities ...

POST: Race, Print, and Digital Humanities: Pedagogical Approaches

Jan

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2018

AHA Today, the blog for the American Historical Association, has published a post by Amy E. Earhart and Maura Ives (both Texas A&M), “Race, Print, and Digital Humanities: Pedagogical Approaches.” The authors describe the teaching of a graduate and undergraduate course at Texas A&M that applied “the methods of book history—enumerative bibliography and scholarly editing—to the ...