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JOB: Digital Projects & Metadata Librarian, American Philosophical Society

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: In this newly created position, the Library seeks a full-time member of the Technology Department to contribute to the planning, design, and development of digital projects using APS collections. As a member of a small team, the Digital Projects & Metadata Librarian will work closely with the Head of Technology to complete ...

JOB: Digital Technologies Librarian, Tulane University

Jul

14

2016

From the announcement: The Digital Technologies Librarian takes an innovative, service-centric approach to the oversight of several key information management and discovery systems (including Tulane’s implementations of Primo, Islandora, and ArchivesSpace). S/he will be responsible for ensuring the optimal performance of these systems, which will include: enabling data integration across distributed and heterogeneous local and ...

RECOMMENDED: Searching for a Blazing World

Jun

30

2016

In “Searching for a Blazing World,” Sarah Werner (@wynkenhimself) reflects on her recent plenary address at the Rare Books and Manuscript Section (RBMS) annual conference and revisits the issue of digital access to special collections. In the talk, Werner questioned how and why libraries decide what to digitize, and discussed the difficulties of locating and ...

POST: Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb

Jun

30

2016

Stephanie Kingsley (American Historical Association) has written a post recapping “Saving the Web: The Ethics and Challenges of Preserving What’s on the Internet,” the one-day symposium held at John W. Kluge Center at the Library of Congress earlier this month. “Archiving the Internet: How Historians Can Help #SaveTheWeb” is a detailed and thoroughly referenced summary of ...

CFParticipation: Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries

Jun

30

2016

Library Juice Press has issued a call for participation for Human Operators: A Critical Oral History of Technology in Libraries, edited by Melissa Morrone (Brooklyn Public Library). Morrone is seeking participants willing to be interviewed for the book, which intends to “bring out specific critiques of technology as well as more inspiring aspects of what’s ...

POSTS: DH in China

Jun

30

2016

The China Policy Institute blog (University of Nottingham) featured six articles on digital humanities in China from June 3-13, 2016. As Lik Huang Tsui writes in his post: University libraries will likely become important focal points for developing digital scholarship in China. Researchers from various humanistic disciplines are aware as well that the digital humanities ...

CFP: Slate’s Call for Historical Datasets

Jun

30

2016

Rebecca Onion (Slate) is “in search of historical data.” Inspired by the success of Slate‘s interactive graphic based on the Transatlantic Slave Trade Database, Onion seeks datasets that can be used to create “history presented using the interactive power of the web.” If you, in your work as a historian or humanities scholar, have put ...

CFP: The Digital Teaching Edition

Jun

30

2016

Dr. Mary Balkun (Seton Hall University) and Dr. Diana Polley (Southern New Hampshire University) have issued a call for a proposed roundtable session at NeMLA 2017 on The Digital Teaching Edition: From the call: This roundtable will generate discussion about the future of the traditional teaching edition; the benefits, drawbacks, and challenges of creating a digital ...

RESOURCE: Inclusive DH2016

Jun

30

2016

In “Inclusive DH2016: Papers and posters that address gender, race, sexuality, class, and cross cultural language issues,” Amy Earhart (Texas A&M) provides a list of papers, workshops, and sessions at the upcoming Digital Humanities 2016 Conference (Kraków, 11-16 July) that specifically mention issues of diversity and inclusion. The list includes a two-part session on diversity: ...

RESOURCE: The Sourcecaster

Jun

30

2016

Thomas Padilla (University of California, Santa Barbara) and James Baker (University of Sussex) recently launched the sourcecaster, a tool that “helps you use the command line to work through common challenges that come up when working with digital primary sources.” Padilla has written a brief post to explain the project, which is based on ffmprovisr, ...

RECOMMENDED: Must Digital Divide?

Jun

23

2016

In her latest Library Babel Fish column for Inside Higher Ed, Barbara Fister (Gustavus Adolphus College) reflects on the recent Oberlin Digital Scholarship Conference. Her observations about digital pedagogy and the ways in which libraries and archives are, might, and ought to be involved in digital scholarship will be of use to librarians and archivists ...