“A Natural Symbiosis”: An Interview with Ashley Sanders

Chelcie Juliet Rowell, Digital Initiatives Librarian at Wake Forest University, interviews Ashley Sanders, the Digital Scholarship Librarian for the Claremont Colleges. After meeting at the 2015 Digital Library Federation Forum in Vancouver, BC, Ashley and Chelcie are glad to have identified each other as fellow learners in a digital humanities, libraries, and liberal arts community ...

PROJECT: ‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980

The Mississippi State University History Department and Libraries have launched a digital history project entitled ‘A Shaky Truce’: Starkville Civil Rights Struggles, 1960-1980. Developed by a cross-disciplinary team of faculty, librarians, graduate and undergraduate students, the project documents two decades of civil rights struggles in Starkville, MS. The purpose of this project is to tell a ...

POST: Opportunities Created by Emerging Technologies

Katina Rogers (The Futures Initiative, Graduate Center, CUNY) has posted her position paper for an upcoming Council of Graduate Schools workshop on the future of the dissertation. In it, she links the changes and challenges afoot for dissertations with those facing the greater landscape of scholarship and scholarly publishing. The same questions of values, methods, and ...

POST: Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture

Leo Stezano (Columbia University Libraries) wrote a post for the LITA Blog entitled Agile Development: Building an Agile Culture. In the post, Stezano outlines some tips for fostering a successful agile development shop in a library setting. Additionally, he provides links for further reading on agile development teams and the broader discussion of institutional culture issues ...

RESOURCE: ARL Fall Forum Overview and Roundup

Liz Hamilton (Northwestern University), the recipient of the inaugural Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship, has written an overview of the 2015 ARL Fall Forum on Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the overview, Hamilton provides highlights (and links to materials) from the speakers’ presentations, including Tara McPherson’s Julia C. Blixrud ...

JOB: Digitization and Metadata Specialist, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

From the announcement: The Digitization and Metadata Specialist will digitize collections and enter metadata of Collection into Country Music Foundation’s digital asset management system, to include cataloging and migration of existing digitized collections. Properly handle fragile and rare archival materials. Role Summary: Digitization of project specific video, audio, print and photo collections Migration of existing ...

JOB: Digital Programs and Initiatives Manager, University of Maryland Libraries

From the announcement: The Digital Programs and Initiatives (DPI) Manager is responsible for providing visionary leadership and oversight for the Digital Programs and Initiatives department. The DPI Manager initiates and is the first point of contact for all new digital projects and digital initiatives, and works with both internal and external project stakeholders to develop ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Developer, Carnegie Mellon University

From the announcement: The Developer would work alongside researchers from Dietrich and elsewhere to plan and implement digital humanities projects, from statistical analyses of millions of legal documents to websites that crowdsource grammars of endangered languages. Located in the the Office of The Dean under CMU’s Digital Humanities Specialist, the developer will help start up ...

JOB: Digital Library Applications Administrator, Smith College

From the announcement: Administer digital library applications used by faculty, staff, and students, such as web content management, digital collection repositories, and archives information management and other tools used in support of teaching and learning with library content and services. Consult with content and technology specialists in the Libraries, Information Technology Services and other campus ...

RESOURCE: Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians

Laura B. Palumbo, Ron Jantz, Yu-Hung Lin, Aletia Morgan, Minglu Wang, Krista White, Ryan Womack, Yingting Zhang, and Yini Zhu (Rutgers University) have published “Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians” in the Journal of eScience Librarianship. From the abstract: In order to provide a better defined workflow and mission for research data ...

POST: Word Embedding Models

Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern University) has shared two posts about word embedding models–“Vector Space Models for the digital humanities” and “Rejecting the gender binary“–on his blog. Each post explores facets algorithms that can be used in digital humanities research. The first post provides an overview to word embedding models, contrasting them with topic models: DHers use topic models because it ...