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POST: Introducing Git-Lit

Sep

24

2015

Jonathan Reeve (Columbia University) has written a post, “Introducing Git-Lit,” inviting input on a project that turns digitized manuscripts from the British Library into GitHub repositories: Git-Lit aims to parse, version control, and post each work in the British Library’s corpus of digital texts. Parsing the texts will transform the machine-readable metadata into human-readable prefatory ...

OPPORTUNITY: Personal Digital Archiving—a new LITA web course

Sep

24

2015

The Library and Technology Association (LITA) division of ALA is offering Personal Digital Archiving for Librarians, “a Moodle based web course with asynchronous weekly content lessons, tutorials, assignments, and group discussion.” Running from October 6 to November 11, 2015, participants will learn best practices for managing digital “stuff,” how to save social media content, understand basics ...

RESOURCE: The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?

Sep

24

2015

Nancy L. Maron (Sustaining Digital Resources Training Program) published “The Digital Humanities Are Alive and Well and Blooming: Now What?” in the September/October edition of the EDUCAUSE Review. Maron observes three challenges for institutions establishing a digital humanities program from her work with the Ithaka S+R Study: Building an Inventory Examining the Digital Life Cycle Choosing ...

RECOMMENDED: An Information Science Question in DH Feminism

Sep

17

2015

A new article from Tanya Clement (UT Austin) is included in a special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (Vol 9, No 2 – now available as a preview) “Feminisms in Digital Humanities,” edited by Jacqueline Wernimont (Arizona State University). “An Information Science Question in DH Feminism” considers how “feminist inquiry can help us articulate and better ...

CFParticipation: EADH Day 2015

Sep

17

2015

The European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH) will be holding a symposium on October 8, 2015 at UNED (Madrid) “to provide the principal annual focus for practitioners of Digital Humanities in Europe to network and discuss common challenges and opportunities.” The event will coincide with the Second International Conference of the Hispanic Digital Humanities Association, ...

RESOURCE: Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age

Sep

17

2015

Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) has drawn attention to a new resource from the Modern Language Association, “Considering the Scholarly Edition in the Digital Age: A White Paper on the Modern Language Association’s Committee on Scholarly Editions.” Though intended as “a tool for thinking through a set of pressing questions for the MLA’s Committee ...

RESOURCE: Data Rights and Responsibilities: A Human Rights Perspective on Data Sharing

Sep

17

2015

The Digital Koans blog highlights a new article in the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics, “Data Rights and Responsibilities: A Human Rights Perspective on Data Sharing” (Theresa L. Harris and Jessica M. Wyndham) explores data sharing through a human rights lens, leading to the formation of “a different set of problems, priorities, ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Programmer, Northeastern University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: This position will work as part of a team that includes the staff of the Digital Scholarship Group and Library Technical Services, to develop and expand support for digital scholarship, digital repository services, discovery tools, and related critical library services. We are looking for technically confident, fast learners who are equally comfortable ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, San Diego State University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: San Diego State University Library & Information Access seeks applications and nominations of dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented candidates for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian. This is an exciting opportunity for a forward-thinking individual to envision and create a digital scholarship lab in the library, in collaboration with SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative. This ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, Cornell University

Sep

17

2015

From the announcement: Cornell University Library’s Digital Scholarship and Preservation Services (DSPS) unit seeks a Digital Projects Librarian who will coordinate digital collection projects and provide oversight for objectives of digital preservation. Reporting to the Digital Curation Services Lead, the Digital Projects Librarian will be an important member in the Digital Curation Services team, which ...

RECOMMENDED: Get Involved in the National Digital Platform for Libraries

Sep

10

2015

In a guest post on the LITA blog, Emily Reynolds and Trevor Owens (IMLS) detail digital library funding opportunities under the National Digital Platform program. They draw out the themes of this spring’s IMLS Meetings around opportunities and gaps in US digital library infrastructure and link those themes to the current finding opportunities. These themes are: Engaging, ...