POST: Digital humanities might never be evenly distributed

In a blog post titled, “Digital humanities might never be evenly distributed,” Ted Underwood (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) considers the different ways in which digital humanities infrastructure, support, and collaboration work (or don’t work) across constituencies in institutions. He posits that DH can be understood “as an institutional achievement that happens to exist on some ...

RESOURCE: AHA Publishes Guidelines for Evaluation of Digital Scholarship

In a post at the AHA blog, Director of Scholarly Communication & Digital Initiatives Seth Denbo, outlines the AHA’s new guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship: The guidelines encourage departments to evaluate such work on its scholarly merits: “Work done by historians using digital methodologies or media for research, pedagogy, or communication should be evaluated for ...

RESOURCE: Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities

JADH released the first issue of the Journal of the Japanese Association for Digital Humanities on September 2nd. From Editor-In-Chief Charles Muller’s introduction to the issue: In this issue we present eight articles that deal with various issues in Digital Humanities, authored by both local Japanese scholars and researchers from abroad. The articles in this ...

JOB: Humanities Data Curator, University of California, Santa Barbara

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Cataloging & Metadata Services (CMS), the Humanities Data Curator has primary responsibility for the planning, implementation, and ongoing production of digital collections and scholarly initiatives in support of digital humanities scholarship and artistic production on campus to ensure their high functionality and discoverability through the flow and ...

JOB: Coordinator of the Scholarly Communications Design Studio, University of Connecticut

From the announcement: The Scholarly Communications Design Studio Coordinator is a new interdisciplinary position created to provide leadership and coordination for design project development and engage with faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and the broader University community across all UConn campuses to facilitate and promote design thinking in digital scholarship.  The Scholarly Communications Design Studio Coordinator ...

RECOMMENDED: The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities

The newest issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly will feature an article by Alix Keener (University of Michigan) addressing questions around collaboration between digital humanities researchers and academic librarians. “The Arrival Fallacy: Collaborative Research Relationships in the Digital Humanities” is based on research conducted with participants from the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) libraries, which includes ...

POST: A Dataset for Distant-Reading Literature in English, 1700-1922

Ted Underwood has written a post describing his work in collaboration with HathiTrust Research Center to create a dataset for scholars looking to get started with distant reading methods on 18th & 19th century literature (in English). Using the page-level wordcounts available in HTRC and pairing them with page-level metadata created to track the genre ...

RESOURCE: Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has released a recording of “Building Expertise to Support Digital Scholarship: A Global Perspective,” a presentation by Jon Cawthorne (West Virginia University), Vivian Lewis (McMaster University), Lisa Spiro (Rice University), and Xuemao Wang (University of Cincinnati) given at the Spring 2015 meeting. The presentation shares results from a Mellon-funded ...

CFP: Journal of Open Humanities Data

The Journal of Open Humanities Data invites submissions for publications “describing humanities data, software, and ontologies with high potential for reuse.” The journal, an open-access and peer-reviewed publication, has an open call for: 1. Metapapers describe humanities research objects with high reuse potential. This might include quantitative and qualitative data, software, algorithms, maps, simulations, ontologies ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Specialist, University of the Pacific

From the announcement: The University of the Pacific seeks to hire a creative and collaborative Digital Humanities Specialist (DHS) to develop and manage strategies and infrastructure for curating digital and pre-digital content and data; provide computer programming support for projects; and author and/or co-author new digital humanities resources or scholarship.  This is a full-time 20-24 ...

JOB: Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian, Boston College

From the announcement: Boston College Libraries seek a Digital Collections and Preservation Librarian to guide digital preservation and digital archiving activities for an increasing amount of born-digital and digitized content. Working closely with the Head of the Digital Library Program and in concert with team members and professionals across the libraries, he or she will ...