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RESOURCE: Building Histories of the National Mall: A Guide to Creating a Digital Public History Project

Oct

22

2015

Sheila A. Brennan (Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media) has published a post on her blog, Lot 49, discussing “Building Histories of the National Mall: A Guide to Creating a Digital Public History Project“. The Guide details the creation of the Histories of the National Mall project and website. As Brennan explains: For ...

RESOURCE: Online Tool Aims to Help Researchers Sift Through 15 Centuries of Data

Oct

22

2015

North Carolina State University has announced the unveiling of a new tool, Big Data Infrastructure Visualization Application, or BigDIVA. BigDIVA, created by digital humanities scholars from NC State and Texas A&M University, will allow users to search thousands of scholarly articles and archival items spanning from 450 A.D. to the 20th century, using a visual ...

CFP: Special Issue of DHQ: Spanish-Language Digital Humanities

Oct

22

2015

Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a call for proposals for a special issue of the journal, highlighting digital humanities work in Spanish. This issue will be “the first of several planned for DHQ in different languages or regional traditions.” Submissions will be anonymously peer reviewed, with editors looking for: The scholarly contribution of the article. ...

JOB: Program Manager – Latin American Studies Digital Scholarship Coordinator, University of Texas at Austin

Oct

22

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Coordinator at LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections partners with faculty, librarians and staff to promote the use of digital technologies to enhance teaching, learning and research at UT Austin, with a focus on Latin American Studies. Essential Functions: Digital Strategy and Technology: Provide leadership for the incorporation ...

JOB: Digital Accessioning Archivist, Yale University Library

Oct

22

2015

From the announcement: The Yale University Library (YUL) is seeking a Digital Accessioning Archivist for Yale Special Collections to fill a two-year position. Under the supervision of the Digital Archivist in the Manuscript Unit of the Beinecke Library, and in collaboration with the Born Digital Working Group, the position will help establish a centralized born-digital ...

Introducing dh+lib Scene Reports

Oct

21

2015

Do you ever wonder what digital humanities (DH) programs are simmering at other institutions? How others got involved with DH or libraries and archives? What emergent theory is guiding this area? How galleries and museums are encountering and implicated by DH (and vice versa)? dh+lib is pleased to introduce Scene Reports, a series that aims ...

POST: The World As Seen Through Books: An Interview with Kalev Hannes Leetaru

Oct

15

2015

Erin Engle (Library of Congress) has posted an interview with Kalev Hannes Leetaru (George Washington University Center for Cyber and Homeland Security) at the Signal Digital Preservation blog, detailing research he recently completed comparing the Internet Archive, HathiTrust, and Google Books Ngrams Collections. Kalev: … To explore this further, with the assistance of Google, Clemson University, the Internet ...

CFP: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2017

Oct

15

2015

Matthew K. Gold (City University of New York) and Lauren Klein (Georgia Tech), editors of Debates in the Digital Humanities 2017, have released a call for proposals . Suggested topics of particular interest to those working in libraries, archives, and museum include: DH, diversity, and difference. How should DH account for diversity and difference–in terms ...

CFP: Call for Case Studies on Data Ethics from the Council on Big Data, Ethics & Society

Oct

15

2015

The Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society has issued a call for case studies written by researchers, practitioners, and educators on complex issues of data ethics. From the call: The Council is seeking researchers, practitioners, and educators to write case studies based on real-world examples that examine complex issues of data ethics. A case study should ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Humanities training through DLF & DHSI

Oct

15

2015

The Digital Library Federation has announced a partnership with the Digital Humanities Summer Institute to provide discounts to the summer digital humanities training programs to all affiliated with its member organizations. Additionally, they will provide full-tuition scholarships for five “DLF-DHSI Cross-Pollinator Fellows.” From the announcement: DLF recognizes the value of partnering with endeavors that seriously engage issues ...

JOB: Omeka Designer, People’s Archive of Police Violence, Cleveland

Oct

15

2015

From the announcement: People’s Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland exists as an online archive to collect, preserve, and provide access to the stories, memories, and accounts of police violence as experienced or observed by Cleveland citizens. The archive, which currently holds more than 20 hours of primary-source audio and video footage, seeks a designer ...