RESOURCE: ARL Fall Forum Overview and Roundup

Liz Hamilton (Northwestern University), the recipient of the inaugural Julia C. Blixrud Scholarship, has written an overview of the 2015 ARL Fall Forum on Research Partnerships in Digital Scholarship for the Humanities and Social Sciences. In the overview, Hamilton provides highlights (and links to materials) from the speakers’ presentations, including Tara McPherson’s Julia C. Blixrud ...

JOB: Digitization and Metadata Specialist, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

From the announcement: The Digitization and Metadata Specialist will digitize collections and enter metadata of Collection into Country Music Foundation’s digital asset management system, to include cataloging and migration of existing digitized collections. Properly handle fragile and rare archival materials. Role Summary: Digitization of project specific video, audio, print and photo collections Migration of existing ...

JOB: Digital Programs and Initiatives Manager, University of Maryland Libraries

From the announcement: The Digital Programs and Initiatives (DPI) Manager is responsible for providing visionary leadership and oversight for the Digital Programs and Initiatives department. The DPI Manager initiates and is the first point of contact for all new digital projects and digital initiatives, and works with both internal and external project stakeholders to develop ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Developer, Carnegie Mellon University

From the announcement: The Developer would work alongside researchers from Dietrich and elsewhere to plan and implement digital humanities projects, from statistical analyses of millions of legal documents to websites that crowdsource grammars of endangered languages. Located in the the Office of The Dean under CMU’s Digital Humanities Specialist, the developer will help start up ...

JOB: Digital Library Applications Administrator, Smith College

From the announcement: Administer digital library applications used by faculty, staff, and students, such as web content management, digital collection repositories, and archives information management and other tools used in support of teaching and learning with library content and services. Consult with content and technology specialists in the Libraries, Information Technology Services and other campus ...

RESOURCE: Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians

Laura B. Palumbo, Ron Jantz, Yu-Hung Lin, Aletia Morgan, Minglu Wang, Krista White, Ryan Womack, Yingting Zhang, and Yini Zhu (Rutgers University) have published “Preparing to Accept Research Data: Creating Guidelines for Librarians” in the Journal of eScience Librarianship. From the abstract: In order to provide a better defined workflow and mission for research data ...

POST: Word Embedding Models

Benjamin Schmidt (Northeastern University) has shared two posts about word embedding models–“Vector Space Models for the digital humanities” and “Rejecting the gender binary“–on his blog. Each post explores facets algorithms that can be used in digital humanities research. The first post provides an overview to word embedding models, contrasting them with topic models: DHers use topic models because it ...

POST: Maps (and other things) online

Lise Summers (State Records Office of Western Australia) has shared a post about her institution’s migration of records from Aeon to AtoM. Summers describes the process of moving 6,600 digital objects and 7,200 images. Maps from the collection are now available online. AtoM has enabled new loading and viewing capabilities: In our old system, we were restricted ...

POST: When the Technology Changes on You

Maha Bali (The American University in Cairo) authored a post on ProfHacker this week reflecting on how to handle changes to technology we use in teaching and teaching and learning from alterations to the user experience (Twitter’s shift from stars to hearts) to the loss of a tool (Zeega). She closes by extolling the benefits of hosting various ...

JOB: Director, Center for Digital Research and Scholarship, Columbia University

From the announcement: The Columbia University Libraries seeks a motivated, collaborative, and forward-thinking professional to lead its Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS). CDRS works to increase the utility and impact of research produced at Columbia by creating, adapting, implementing, supporting, and sustaining innovative digital tools and publishing platforms for content delivery, discovery, analysis, ...

CFP: Canadian Society for Digital Humanities

The Canadian Society for Digital Humanities/Société canadienne des humanités numériques has issued a call for proposals for their annual meeting, to be held in conjunction with the Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, at the University of Calgary, May 30-June 1, 2016. The Society encourages “scholars, practitioners, and graduate students” to submit proposals “on all ...