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RESOURCE: Digital Repository of Ireland’s Repository Specifications

Oct

8

2015

The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) has published the repository’s requirements specifications, containing the functional, legal, and business requirements for the project—from ingest to APIs to user interface and copyright. The repository links together and preserves both historical and contemporary data held by Irish institutions, providing a central internet access point and interactive multimedia tools. ...

JOB: Senior Researcher Fellowship, Swedish School of Library and Information Science (DiXiT Project))

Oct

8

2015

From the announcement (“Digital Scholarly Editing and Memory Institutions”: The study of this Experienced Researcher project aims to critically explore the range of measures and methods for establishing trustworthiness, quality parameters and authenticity of digital reproductions in libraries and archives, particularly by looking at cases where levels and measures are negotiated between such memory institutions ...

POST: #contextiseverything Whyte Memorial Lecture 2015

Oct

1

2015

Jaye Weatherburn (Swinburne University of Technology, Australia) authored a post summing up the Whyte Memorial lecture delivered by Ross Harvey (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia), “Keeping, Forgetting, and Misreading Digital Material: Libraries Learning from Archives and Recordkeeping Practice.” Harvey “extolled the benefits of archival principles, and called for them to be used for managing digital materials.” ...

POST: No More Excuses

Oct

1

2015

In “No More Excuses,” Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University) calls for the end of all-male panels in the digital humanities and points to several crowdsourced resources for locating women in DH: Build a Better DH Syllabus, Build a Better List of Code Experts, and Build a Better Panel. Wernimont concludes: There are no more excuses. ...

PROJECT: Open Library of Humanities

Oct

1

2015

The Open Library of Humanities announced the launch of their platform with an editorial by directors Martin Paul Eve and Caroline Edwards. Launched after more than two years of planning, with supporting membership funding, OLH represents “the seed of a scalable model for journal transition to open access in the humanities that does not rely on payment from authors ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACRL Virtual Meeting, Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group

Oct

1

2015

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Centers Interest Group is sponsoring a free webinar about the integration of faculty research into planning into the planning and management of library-based DH centers. Join the webinar on Wednesday, October 21 at 3pm EST with guests Peter Logan (Temple University) and Liz Rodrigues (University of Michigan). You can register for the webinar ...

JOB: Lead Developer, Princeton University Center for Digital Humanities

Oct

1

2015

From the position announcement: The Center for Digital Humanities (CDH) is an interdisciplinary research center in the Princeton University Library. While the global digital humanities community is constantly defining and redefining itself, the CDH embraces an inclusive understanding of DH that respects and investigates the myriad ways digital methods and technologies are opening new avenues ...

JOB: Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian, Grinnell College

Oct

1

2015

From the announcement: The Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian will serve as academic liaison for Chinese and Japanese, Classics, German, Music, Russian, and Theatre and Dance, providing faculty contact, reference consultation with students and faculty, research literacy teaching, and collection development. In addition, this librarian will be responsible for consulting with faculty, staff, and students ...

CFP: Digital Blackness Conference, Rutgers University

Sep

24

2015

Rutgers University issued a call for papers for the Digital Blackness Conference to be held on April 22-23, 2016 in New Brunswick, New Jersey. What we might call the digital turn also has significant implications for how we study Blackness within and across fields and disciplines. What does Digital Black Studies mean? What are its ...

JOB: Digital Humanities and Web Services Librarian, University of Delaware

Sep

24

2015

From the announcement: The University of Delaware Library seeks a creative, enthusiastic professional for the position of Digital Humanities and Web Services Librarian. Reporting to the Head, Library Server and Data Management Department in the Library Technologies and Digital Initiatives Division, the position works closely with colleagues throughout the library in three areas of primary ...

JOB: Digital Projects Developer, Lewis & Clark College

Sep

24

2015

From the announcement: Reporting to the Digital Services Coordinator, the Digital Projects Developer performs advanced technical and creative work essential to Watzek Library’s services and digital initiatives. The Developer authors and modifies web software code and installs, configures and administers web content management software. The Developer manages technical projects and assures that deadlines are met ...