JOB: Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship (University of Pennsylvania)

From the Post: Job Description Responsibilities In collaboration with the AVP for Technology and Digital Initiatives, responsible for the overall vision, planning, development, implementation, advancement, and assessment of research data and digital scholarship services and associated projects of the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship. In addition to intensive outreach activities, the Director will ...

JOB: Institutional Repository and Digital Scholarship Coordinator (SJSU)

From the Post: Key Responsibilities Coordinates access to the SJSU ScholarWorks institutional repository (IR) by creating metadata, uploading digital files in appropriate formats, and designing the public display of the database content. Administers the IR platform, leveraging existing tools and/or developing new software solutions to improve and enhance functionality. Identifies and recommends innovative strategies and ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (Ramapo College of New Jersey)

From the Post: Job Summary: Under the general supervision of the Library Dean, the Digital Scholarship Librarian provides leadership, program management, and development of the College’s digital humanities and scholarship programs and support for digital scholarship to the larger College community. Examples of Duties Lead faculty in developing digital/technology based modes of scholarship that support ...

JOB: Head of Digital Scholarship and Research Data Services (North Carolina A&T State University)

From the posting: This position is being reposted.  Previous applicants are still under consideration. Reporting to the Assistant Dean of Library Services, this position will bring a deep understanding of the major strategies, opportunities, challenges and trends facing academic research libraries today in the areas of open publishing, data and digital scholarship, the preservation and ...

RECOMMENDED: Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Data

A recently published paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data titled “Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Data” explores the complexities of datasets created from digital cultural heritage collections, with the purpose of providing recommended standards for documenting these datasets. Their interest in better describing these kinds of datasets relates primarily to the Collections as ...

PROJECT: Virtual Viking Longship Project

An interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students, library workers, and faculty from Carleton College and Grinnell College are using 3D modeling and VR technology to explore the social and cultural roles of Viking longships, in collaboration with museum professionals from the Viking Museum Haithabu and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. The Virtual Viking ...

CFP: Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices: Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme between Collaboration and Exploitation

Conveners of the Sixth Annual Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, have released their call for proposals. The Conference, to take place in March 2024, will be held at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) with hybrid options, and is organized in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), the ...

CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing”

The Journal of Electronic Publishing invites proposals for their special issue, “On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing.” From the call: When we think of scholarly communication, we’re usually thinking of something that can be shared independent of its creator(s). A book, a journal article, multimodal work, conference proceedings—the formal ...

CFP: Digital Humanities 2024

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has posted a call for proposals for Digital Humanities 2024: “Reinvention and Responsibility.” The DH2024 conference will be held August 6-9, 2024, at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, USA. From the call: Reinvention is a call to act with creativity, compassion, and intentionality to better meet the ...

EVENT: HASTAC Scholars Digital Friday

The HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholars are hosting informal virtual get-togethers to workshop projects, exchange ideas, and build community. “Digital Fridays is an exciting platform where HASTAC Scholars and expert speakers come together to explore cutting-edge topics at the intersection of technology and the arts, humanities, and sciences.” The next ...

EVENTS: Representations of AI

The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the University of London are hosting two upcoming seminars, in which scholars and researchers “scrutinize representations of ‘intelligent machines’, and discuss how memes, literature, gender stereotypes, and colonial histories shape AI and the role it plays in today’s society. Conceived as a series of conversations, the seminar brings together ...