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RESOURCE: Research Data Curation Bibliography, Version 5

Jul

16

2015

Digital Scholarship (Charles W. Bailey, Jr.) has released the fifth version of Research Data Curation Bibliography. The Research Data Curation Bibliography includes over 350 selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. For broader coverage of the digital curation literature, see ...

CFP: Digital Blackness Conference

Jul

16

2015

Rutgers University has issued a call for papers for a two-day conference to be held April 22 – 23, 2016, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Digital Blackness aims to: …bring together scholars, students, activists, and artists from a range of fields and disciplines to interrogate the many new modes, customs, and arrangements of racial identity ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Coordinator, University of Georgia Libraries

Jul

16

2015

From the announcement: The University of Georgia Libraries invites applications for the position of Digital Humanities Coordinator. The successful candidate will be responsible to the Deputy University Librarian for helping to administer and coordinate the diverse activities and programs of the Willson Center Digital Humanities Lab (DigiLab) of the University of Georgia in support of ...

JOB: Digital Initiative Librarian/Assistant Professor, Idaho State University

Jul

16

2015

From the announcement: Supports digital scholarship initiatives including: providing assistance in the digitization of special collections, managing existing digital library services, and informing the creation of new digital services. Reporting to the Head of Collection Management, the Digital Initiatives Librarian works with staff and faculty throughout the library to provide innovative digital library services. dh+lib ...

RECOMMENDED: Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction

Jul

2

2015

Miriam Posner (University of California, Los Angeles) has shared the text of her talk, “Humanities Data: A Necessary Contradiction,” given at the Harvard Purdue Data Management Symposium. Posner suggests that libraries have an “underexplored opportunity” to help humanities scholars manage their research data, but notes the peculiarity of humanities data as compared to science or ...

POST: Acceptances to Digital Humanities 2015 (series)

Jul

2

2015

Each year, Scott Weingart (Indiana University) analyzes the publicly available data surrounding the accepted submissions to the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organization’s Digital Humanities conference. This year, he’s drafted a series of posts that individually tackle different aspects of the data and we’ve reproduced the tl;dr for each here: Part 1: Part 1 is about ...

POST: Digital Manuscripts as Critical Edition

Jul

2

2015

The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies has posted a lightly edited version of “Digital Manuscripts as Critical Edition,” a talk given by Christoph Flüeler (University of Fribourg) at the 50th International Congress on Medieval Studies. In his examination of the relationship between originals and digital reproductions, Flüeler calls for a “critical theory of the digital ...

RESOURCE: Modelling the (Inter)national Printmaking Networks of Early Modern Europe

Jul

2

2015

Matthew Lincoln (University of Maryland) has shared slides and speaking notes from his DH2015 talk, “Modelling the (Inter)national Printmaking Networks of Early Modern Europe,” in which he draws on museum datasets to construct network graphs for early modern printmakers. Lincoln considers the effect of relying on a single institution’s data and explores future directions for ...

CFP: Critical Data Studies

Jul

2

2015

The journal Big Data & Society has issued a call for proposals for a special themed issue on “Critical Data Studies,” to be guest edited by Andrew Iliadis (Purdue University) and Federica Russo (Universiteit van Amsterdam). Critical Data Studies (CDS) is a growing field of research that focuses on the unique theoretical, ethical, and epistemological challenges ...

JOB: Digital Projects Manager, Montana Historical Society

Jul

2

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Manager (DPM) is responsible for the management of the Research Center’s digital assets and projects and acts as a resource for all MHS programs on digital asset and digital project management. The DPM ensures both the Research Center and the wider agency are managing digital assets and projects in ...

The art of DH: Reflections on an ARLIS/NA 2015 workshop

Jul

1

2015

How are the Digital Humanities finding their way into art libraries? In this post, Sarah Long (Hirsch Library, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) reviews a DH workshop preceding the ARLIS/NA annual conference. The Art Libraries Society of North America (ARLIS/NA), a professional organization of librarians in the arts, holds a week-long conference of sessions, workshops, tours, and meetings. The ...