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JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Jun

18

2013

From the announcement: The successful candidate will bring a sense of inquisitiveness and strong problem-solving skills to the position, along with an aptitude for strategic thinking and sustainability planning, and a commitment to advancing the state of the art in digital scholarship in the humanities. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will manage a portfolio of digital ...

POSTS: Museums, Digital Preservation Policies, and Copyright

Jun

18

2013

Two recent posts address two important issues in museums: digital preservation policies and copyright. In a piece in The Signal, “Towards a Digital Preservation Policy For Museums,” Madeline Sheldon discusses her research into digital preservation policies, noting that, while libraries and archives tend to maintain published policies, she has only found one museum thus far that does ...

dh+lib Guide to ALA Annual 2013

Jun

17

2013

To aid in navigating the behemoth that is the ALA Annual Conference, we’ve compiled a list of sessions that intersect in some way with the digital humanities. Thanks to all who responded to our call for suggestions. Have a session you’d like us to add? Shoot us an email or find us on twitter @dhandlib. ...

RESOURCES: THATCamp Prime

Jun

11

2013

THATCamp CNHM 2013 took place at George Mason University last weekend and included a Maker Challenge, which resulted in some great tangibles. Some of the notable projects include: Publishing Contract Repository: “This site aims to enable honest negotiations between authors and publishers by sharing information about contracts. Authors are encouraged to contribute copies of their contracts and to ...

JOB: Research Associate, Digital Preservation, Kings College

Jun

11

2013

From the description: “The post holder will work as a Research Associate on the EU FP7 project PERICLES (“Promoting and Enhancing Reuse of Information throughout the Content Lifecycle taking account of Evolving Semantics”), which was funded as part of the EU’s Digital Preservation program. The post holder will contribute to a range of the research ...

POST: When Are We Peers, When Are We Exploited? Rsp to NYT Op Ed by Jaron Lanier

Jun

10

2013

Cathy Davidson responds to Jaron Lanier’s New York Times opinion article that talks about the social and economic inequities that have grown out of the Internet Revolution. Davidson reminds us of how important it is to be informed digital citizens so we can better understand the risks and rewards of participating in social media and ...

RESOURCE: Hacking the Academy

Jun

10

2013

The University of Michigan Press and MPublishing have released a new title from the digitalculturebooks imprint, the second in the Digital Humanities series: Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from Digital Humanities. Edited by Daniel J. Cohen and Tom Scheinfeldt, with contributions from myriad scholars, the volume explores emerging questions about the future of ...

RESOURCE: Using The Amazon Cloud to Host Digital Scholarship Projects

Jun

10

2013

In this video from the Coalition for Networked Information, Stewart Varner and Jay Varner (Emory University) discuss the opportunities and challenges of implementing Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) to host digital scholarship projects. Using Amazon’s EC2 creates new possibilities for scholars to experiment with digital projects that often are not possible through institutional or private ...

JOB: Director of DH Seed Lab, Arizona State University

Jun

4

2013

From the job announcement: As director, the successful candidate will be expected to work directly with researchers to define, develop, and/or analyze project design, scope, and/or needs; evaluate existing and/or emerging tools and technologies to identify potential uses in humanities research at ASU; and collaborate with other ASU units/agencies to understand and apply various technology infrastructures ...

RESOURCE: Crowdsourcing + Machine Learning: Nicholas Woodward at TCDL

Jun

4

2013

Nicholas Woodward, Software Developer at the University of Texas Libraries, shares the text of the talk he gave at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. Woodward describes his novel approach for transcribing the Digital Archive of the Guatemalan National Police Historical Archive, a collection of over 12 million pages: My approach looks to break up ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Rutgers University

Jun

4

2013

From the position description: The Digital Humanities Librarian will: – Provide leadership and instruction within the Libraries on the creation and curation of digital objects for the humanities in all formats, fostering collaboration among scholars, technologists, and information specialists. – Utilize the infrastructure of RUcore (Rutgers Community Repository) to archive, preserve, and present digital resources. ...