JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services – Vassar College

From the announcement: Vassar College Libraries seeks collaborative and entrepreneurial candidates for the position of Head of Digital Scholarship and Technology Services. The incumbent will work closely with colleagues to advance the Libraries’ efforts to work with faculty and students pursuing digitally-enhanced modes of learning and research. Along with partners in the Libraries as well ...

JOB: Network Manager – Digital Public Library of America

From the announcement: The Digital Public Library of America is growing our Hubs Network. DPLA Hubs include Content and Service Hubs, and represent almost 2,000 cultural heritage institutions throughout the country.  Over the next several years, we have the goal for cultural heritage institutions in every state to have an on-ramp to DPLA.  This position ...

JOB: Digital Project Librarian at Ohio University

From the announcement: In this two year term appointment the Digital Projects Librarian (Digital Initiatives) will report to the Digital Initiatives Coordinator, and focus on the technical aspects of digital project production such as managing imaging, metadata creation, and ingest. The successful candidate will work to advance the Ohio University Libraries’ expanding digital presence and ...

RECOMMENDED: Money and Time

This week, Miriam Posner (UCLA) posted an edited version of a talk she recently gave at UC Irvine’s Data Science and Digital Humanities symposium on her blog. Posner’s talk focuses on sustainability of digital humanities centers and initiatives, pointing out major concerns about staffing models, grant-funded projects, and a perceived “immateriality of digital labor”: I ...

POST: Data fluidity in DARIAH — pushing the agenda forward

Laurent Romary (DARIAH and INRIA), Mike Mertens (DARIAH), and Anne Baillot (Centre Marc Bloch and INRIA) have released a new paper, “Data fluidity in DARIAH — pushing the agenda forward.” Romary, Mertens, and Baillot’s paper details the establishment of the Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities (DARIAH), an overview of the infrastructure’s current membership, ...

RESOURCE: UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-Term Preservation

UNESCO has released The UNESCO/PERSIST Guidelines for the Selection of Digital Heritage for Long-Term Preservation, a document created to: “provide an overarching starting point for libraries, archives, museums and other heritage institutions when drafting their own policies on the selection of digital heritage for long-term sustainable digital preservation.” Recognizing that “Heritage institutions – libraries, archives, ...

OPPORTUNITY: NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication

The National Endowment for the Humanities and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have announced a jointly funded program to “support individual scholars pursuing research projects that require digital expression and digital publication,” the NEH-Mellon Fellowships for Digital Publication. Projects funded through this fellowship program: … must be conceived as digital because the nature of the ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer, Boston College (2 positions)

From the announcement: These Digital Scholarship Librarian / Bibliographer positions advance digital scholarship by providing research services, technical support, and project management assistance for members of the BC community engaged in technology-rich scholarly projects. Both librarians maintain deep knowledge and practical expertise in an evolving interdisciplinary landscape of digital scholarship tools and methods, including but ...

JOB: Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian, University of Pennsylvania

From the announcement: As part of a collaborative team of librarians within the Digital Scholarship Department, the Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian will explore new models for scholarly communication and digital publishing, participate in ongoing scholarly communication efforts, and take a leadership role in the publication, sharing, and reuse of research data across the ...

RECOMMENDED: Returning Women to the History of Digital History

Sharon Leon (RRCHNM, George Mason University) has shared a draft of a forthcoming book chapter, “Beyond the Principal Investigator: Complicating ‘Great Man’ Narrative of Digital History.” The chapter investigates the origin stories of digital history and seeks to “… [recover] women’s contributions to the field … and question the conditions that have contributed to their erasure…” ...

POST: The New Wave of Review

In “The New Wave of Review,” Cameron Blevins (Rutgers University) considers what he sees as an increase in digital history project reviews that appear in the discipline’s print scholarly journals. Blevins identifies three trends in the approach of these reviews: those that treat digital history projects primarily as public engagement (and not a scholarly contribution ...