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CFP: Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook

Dec

10

2020

Developed by Beth Fischer (Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at the Williams College Museum of Art) and Hannah Jacobs (Digital Humanities Specialist, Wired! Lab, Duke University), Visualizing Objects, Places, and Spaces: A Digital Project Handbook is an open-access publication “designed to fill the gap between platform-specific tutorials and disciplinary discourse in digital humanities, digital scholarship, ...

JOB: Data & Digital Collections Librarian (University of Toronto)

Dec

10

2020

From the announcement: The University of Toronto is committed to diversity. Applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the diversification of ideas are especially welcomed. POSITION: Data & Digital Collections Librarian (Librarian I/II position) DEPARTMENT: University of Toronto Scarborough ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian (Wittenberg University)

Dec

10

2020

From the announcement: Wittenberg University is accepting applications for a Digital Initiatives Librarian (Assistant Professor), to begin in January 2021. This is a full-time, non-tenure-track faculty position. Wittenberg is committed to attracting and retaining highly qualified individuals who collectively reflect the diversity of our student body and society at-large. The successful candidate will demonstrate support ...

RECOMMENDED: Price Lab Podcast

Nov

19

2020

The Price Lab Podcast, from the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, is “a series focused on the people who are building, using, and critiquing the digital tools and techniques transforming the humanities.” Episodes feature conversations with different scholars about their projects and the tools they use to complete them. Topics of ...

RESOURCE: Web Archiving Made Simple

Nov

19

2020

In his blog post “Web Archiving Made Simple,” Ian Goodale (University of Texas Libraries) presents an overview of the Simple Web Archiver, a tool he created as “a straightforward, open source web archiving tool to create personal archives of websites and the files they host,” as well as other web archiving tools. According to Goodale, ...

CFP: Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

Nov

19

2020

Texas Digital Library (TDL) and the conference planning committee are now accepting proposals for the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2021, which will take place virtually on May 24-27, 2021. From the call: For over a decade, the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries has covered topics relevant to the creation, promotion, and preservation of research, ...

OPPORTUNITY: Researcher, Computing Cultural Heritage Collections Project

Nov

19

2020

The Library of Congress is looking for a researcher to help the Library “build a rich understanding of the uses for large scale computational access to library collections, including images, audio, video, web, text, and structured metadata” as part of the Computing Cultural Heritage Collections project in LC Labs. Supported by the Andres W. Mellon ...

JOB: Data Visualization and Analytics Librarian (York University, Ontario)

Nov

19

2020

From the announcement: York University Libraries (YUL) seeks a dynamic and innovative individual with strong leadership potential for the position of Data Visualization and Analytics Librarian. This is a continuing appointment position with a focus on academic library data services, data analytics and data visualization. York University champions new ways of thinking that drive teaching ...

PROJECT: Japan Disasters Digital Archive Project

Nov

12

2020

The Japan Disasters Digital Archive (JDA) is an advanced search engine for materials “from all over the web, individuals’ testimonials, tweets, prominently including content from international partners who are building digital repositories about the disasters” of 2011. In addition to facilitating searching through the archive’s materials, users can also use the site to create their own curated ...

RESOURCE: Startwords

Nov

12

2020

Startwords, an online publication from Princeton’s Center for Digital Humanities, recently published its debut issue. From the issue’s announcement: With an emphasis on exploration and creativity in both content and presentation, Startwords is “a forum for experimental humanities scholarship” that invites a broad audience to think about new or underexplored aspects of DH work. The title ...

EVENT: Medical Heritage Library 10th Anniversary Conference

Nov

12

2020

The Medical Heritage Library is pleased to announce its 10th Anniversary Virtual Conference, to be held this Friday, November 13th from 11 – 5 EDT. The conference features a broad range of presentations of interest to the digital humanities community, and is entirely free to attend. Presentations will be made via Zoom. Registration for the ...