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JOB: Digital Scholarship and Repository Analyst – University of Connecticut

Jul

28

2016

From the announcement: The University of Connecticut Digital Scholarship and Data Curation unit, along with Greenhouse Studios at the University of Connecticut seeks an experienced web developer to serve as Digital Scholarship and Repository Analyst in a full-time role at UConn’s Storrs campus. An innovative and fast-moving collaboration between the University Library, UConn’s School of ...

We’re Looking for dh+lib Review Editors-at-Large for Fall 2016

Jul

27

2016

The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for editors-at-large for Fall 2016. Sign up for a shift today! dh+lib Review posts appear on the dh+lib homepage, in a weekly newsletter sent to the ACRL Digital Humanities Interest Group listserv, and in our Twitter ...

RECOMMENDED: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016

Jul

21

2016

Editors Matthew K. Gold (The Graduate Center, CUNY) and Lauren F. Klein (Georgia Institute of Technology) have released the revised edition of Debates in the Digital Humanities. Pairing full-length scholarly essays with shorter pieces drawn from scholarly blogs and conference presentations, as well as commissioned interviews and position statements, Debates in the Digital Humanities 2016 reveals a ...

RECOMMENDED: Hacking heritage: power and participation in digital cultural collections

Jul

21

2016

Tim Sherratt (University of Canberra) published a post on his Discontents blog entitled “Hacking heritage: power and participation in digital cultural collections,” detailing a project he shared at the DigitalGLAM Symposium on July 15 2016 in Melbourne. In order to make the Pre-1980 materials in the Australian Government’s ParlInfo Database more readable and usable, Sherratt quickly developed a tool, Historic ...

RESOURCE: DLF Code of Conduct

Jul

21

2016

The Digital Library Foundation (DLF) has released a revised code of conduct in advance of the 2016 DLF Forum in Milwaukee. The code applies to the Forum as well as other DLF in-person events. Revisions to the code of conduct were undertaken with the goal of making the Digital Library Federation “a welcoming organization and the focal point for a digital ...

CFP: International Digital Humanities Symposium (Växjö, Sweden)

Jul

21

2016

From the call: Recent developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and interactive applications are creating new social tools and conditions for people to connect and interact; therefore changing the ways we communicate, socialize and collaborate. These new forms of digital enhanced communication and collaboration have been rapidly adopted and integrated into people’s everyday lives. ...

JOB: Collections Data Archivist, UCLA Special Collections

Jul

21

2016

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head, Digital Initiatives for Special Collections/Co-head of Collection Management, the Collections Data Archivist (CDA) will oversee a project to enhance archives collection data management practices, workflows, and policies in LSC. The CDA will work in a highly collaborative manner with curatorial, professional, and technical staff in LSC to evaluate, ...

POSTS: “Seshat: A Digital Humanities Initiative” at Howard University

Jul

14

2016

Kenton Rambsy (University of Texas at Arlington) and Howard Rambsy II (Southern Illinois University Edwardsville) have compiled a series of their blog entries “related to the intersections of black artistic culture, technology, DH, and African American literary studies” for the National Endowment for the Humanities project, “Seshat: A Howard University Digital Humanities Initiative” on Rambsy’s ...

POST: The Wartime Films Project: Taking a User-Centered Design Approach at NARA

Jul

14

2016

Jon Voss (Historypin) has written a post for NARAtions, the blog of the U.S. National Archives, the first in a series of blog posts aimed to go “behind the scenes to explore how the National Archives is taking a user-centered design approach toward engagement on a major digitization initiative of a unique collection of Wartime ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities + Data Journalism Symposium

Jul

14

2016

Registration for the Digital Humanities + Data Journalism (DH+DJ) Symposium, sponsored by the University of Miami and the Knight Foundation, is now open. The symposium, which takes place September 29 through October 1 at the University of Miami, aims to bridge gaps between digital humanists and data journalists: Digital humanists and data journalists face common ...

JOB: Director of Digital Projects, MIT Libraries

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: The Director of Digital Projects will lead an MIT Libraries supported software development program and will develop partnerships with external academic and commercial collaborators to develop tools and platforms with a local and global impact on research, scholarly communications, education, and the preservation of information and ideas. Our goal is nothing short ...