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JOB: National Digital Stewardship Residencies, Boston (5 openings)

May

7

2015

From the announcement: NDSR Boston has selected the five host institutions for the 2015-2016 set of residency projects. The host institutions will be the Harvard Library, MIT Libraries, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, the University Archives and Special Collections in the Joseph P. Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston, the State Library of Massachusetts. Resident Applications to ...

Welcome, Patrick Williams and Caitlin Christian-Lamb!

May

5

2015

We are pleased to welcome Patrick Williams and Caitlin Christian-Lamb to the dh+lib editorial team. Patrick joins our project as Lead Editor for the dh+lib Review, a position previously held by founding Review editor Zach Coble, who remains an Editor-in-Chief of the site. Caitlin joins us as an additional Review Editor for the dh+lib Review. Caro Pinto and ...

POST: We’re Overdue on Altmetrics for the Digital Humanities

Apr

30

2015

Stacey Konkiel (Altmetric) has written a post reflecting on her recent efforts to understand how research in the humanities is evaluated, with an eye towards the digital humanities in particular. Observing that scholarly societies have begun to issue guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship projects, Konkiel notes that they: tend not to address newer types of ...

POST: Digital Texas Round-Up!

Apr

30

2015

Charlotte Nunes (Southwestern University) has written a round-up of two Texas digital scholarship conferences: the Texas Digital Humanities Conference and the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Chock full of links to projects and presentations, Nunes’s post covers presentations from Tanya Clement, Rebecca Frost Davis, Liz Grumbach, Adeline Koh, Alan Liu, Bess Sadler, George Siemens, and ...

CFParticipation: The Future of Crowdsourcing

Apr

30

2015

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) invite “interested members of the public” to participate in a discussion on the future of crowdsourcing, to take place May 6-8, 2015. “Engaging the Public: Best Practices in Crowdsourcing across the Disciplines” will “bring together by invitation over 60 ...

CFP: Journal of Digital and Media Literacy

Apr

30

2015

The Journal of Digital and Media Literacy invites submissions for its Winter 2015 issue, due by July 1, 2015. JoDML explores the ways people use technology to create, sustain, and impact communities on local, national, and global levels. Our content examines how civic leaders, media practitioners, scholars, and educators engage with all aspects of digital ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Salem State University

Apr

30

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Librarian will provide leadership and vision in planning, implementing, managing and growing digital initiatives that support the mission of the library and the university. The digital initiatives librarian will provide specialized reference services, deliver library instruction sessions, create instructional materials, and develop the library’s collections. The incumbent will participate in ...

JOB: Head of Digital Preservation, New York Public Library

Apr

30

2015

From the announcement: The Head of Digital Preservation will lead efforts to create a long-term digital preservation strategy, establishing the policies and procedures that address the preservation of the digital assets the Library collects and generates. For over a decade, the Library has made significant investments in digitizing distinctive collections and building online systems to ...

Beyond Dead or Alive Books: Redefining and Repositioning Scholarly Content in a New Knowledge Environment

Apr

29

2015

In this post, Chad Gaffield (University of Ottawa) reflects on the Association of Research Libraries’ 2014 Fall Forum. The compelling, timely, and provocative title of the ARL Fall Forum 2014 could have been articulated several different ways. Rather than “Wanted Dead or Alive: The Scholarly Monograph,” the title might well have been “Wanted Dead or ...

POST: A Fun Way to Introduce DH Students to Dataviz

Apr

23

2015

In a new post, Miriam Posner (UCLA) shares a low-threshold activity to introduce students to data visualization techniques. Students are guided through the process of creating a simple quiz, collecting data, formatting the data in three formats, and exploring different visualization tools. Posner includes links to a variety of tutorials to get started. dh+lib Review This post ...

POST: Libraries Looking Across Languages: Seeing the World Through Mass Translation

Apr

23

2015

Kalev Hannes Leetaru (George Washington University) wrote a post for The Signal exploring the landscape of statistical machine translation (SMT) and outlining the advances made in the last few years to move toward a more “post-lingual society.” Leetaru provides an overview of mass translation projects with a particular focus on GDELT Translingual (Global Database of ...