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CFP: How Did They Make That?

Jan

28

2016

Inspired by Miriam Posner’s “How did they make that?,” DHCommons Journal seeks proposals that provide “procedural descriptions of how to launch and/or maintain and exemplary aspect of a stable digital project.” The journal intends to publish 1-3 descriptions in each issue, following the examples of “Editorial Sustainability and Open Peer Review at Programming Historian” and “How ...

CFP: Project Proposals, Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship

Jan

28

2016

ILiADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship) issued a call for project proposals for the Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship, to be held July 24-29, 2016, at Hamilton College: ILiADS offers participants a summer institute where they may develop projects as a team (faculty, student, librarian, technologist, other experts) and also interact with method ...

EVENT: The Fair Use Factors: Their History and Application

Jan

28

2016

The Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) will freely broadcast the webinar, The Fair Use Factors: Their History and Application, with copyright lawyer Ana Enriquez (Copyright X) on Thursday, February 25, 2016, 1:00 – 2:00 PM CST. The language of the fair use factors has changed very little since the nineteenth century, but the doctrine of fair ...

JOB: Head of the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship, University of Arizona

Jan

28

2016

From the announcement: The University Libraries seek a dynamic, innovative Head of the Office of Digital Innovation and Stewardship (ODIS), a position with the primary responsibility of providing leadership and strategic direction for digital innovation and stewardship within the broader context of the strategic plans of the University Libraries and the University of Arizona. ODIS ...

JOB: Informatics Project Coordinator, Virginia Tech

Jan

28

2016

From the announcement : The University Libraries of Virginia Tech seek a project coordinator for an expanding suite of informatics consulting services. This new position is part of a team of data and informatics consultants offering critical and sophisticated new technology development services that enhance the scholarly, scientific, and creative expression of researchers at Virginia Tech. ...

PROJECT: Open Syllabus Project

Jan

28

2016

Note from the dh+lib Review editors: Please see the updated version of this post. David Weinberger (Harvard Library Innovation Lab) announced the launch of the Open Syllabus Project (OSP) and its Syllabus Explorer in a recent blog post: The OSP is an open platform that so far has aggregated over a million syllabi. At the beta version of their ...

POST: ‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously

Jan

21

2016

Ryan Cordell (Northeastern University) has shared the text of his talk at MLA2016, “‘Q i-jtb the Raven’: Taking Dirty OCR Seriously,” in which he considers the place of the digital products of mass-digitization efforts within the practice of bibliography and scholarly editing. Cordell posits that the digitized texts should themselves be considered a new edition: ...

POST: Crisscrossing Borders: GO::DH Regional Networks in Dialogue

Jan

21

2016

Élika Ortega (University of Kansas) has shared a version of her talk at MLA2016, “Crisscrossing Borders: GO::DH Regional Networks in Dialogue,” in which she reflects on recent discussions about diversity in the digital humanities. Ortega provides “an ecology of knowledges in DH,” drawing attention to the situatedness of DH work as she explores the way ...

RESOURCE: DIY online exhibitions

Jan

21

2016

Tim Sherratt (University of Canberra) has written a post about an app he developed for creating online exhibits of items in Trove, the digital collections aggregator from the National Library of Australia. In “DIY online exhibitions,” Sherratt explains why he chose to focus on an app for working with collections data that are accessible through ...

CFP: Texas Conference on Digital Libraries / Texas Digital Humanities Consortium

Jan

21

2016

The Texas Digital Library is collaborating with the Texas Digital Humanities Consortium to co-host their annual conferences in 2016: The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (May 24-26, 2016) will be followed by a Texas Digital Humanities Consortium Mini-Conference (Mary 27, 2016) in Austin, Texas. The Texas Conference on Digital Libraries will feature Trevor Owens (Institute ...

CFP: Keystone Digital Humanities Conference 2016

Jan

21

2016

The organizers of the Keystone Digital Humanities Conference (Pittsburgh, PA, June 22-24, 2016) have issued a call for proposals, due February 1, 2016. We encourage submissions on all aspects of using and/or studying digital computation within the interpretive context of the humanities, but especially on the role of communities of collaboration and faceted teamwork across ...