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JOB: Digital Scholarship Liaison Librarian, Baylor University (2 positions)

Jun

18

2015

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Liaison Librarian (DSLL) is a reimagined, hybrid liaison role. The DSLLs will develop digital scholarship services, partnerships, and programming; facilitate the use of library content in digital scholarship projects by faculty and students; and serve as a liaison to one or more academic departments. This is an academic professional ...

JOB: Web Archivist for Archive-It

Jun

18

2015

From the announcement: The Web Archivist is the first point of contact for partners that use Archive-It and has responsibility for interacting with partners, getting them started with the service, and supporting their work archiving the web. The role is responsible for fielding and managing technical questions and working with the Archive-It internal engineering team ...

POST: So you want to be a Data Visualization Librarian?

Jun

11

2015

The latest “So What Do You Do?” feature from Hack Library School consists of interviews with four data visualization professionals in different roles at the University of Michigan: Marci Brandenburg, Justin Joque, Stephanie O’Malley, and Ted Hall. The contributors detail what drew them to work in data visualization, document their day-to-day practice, and provide advice ...

POST: Announcing the first subscription journal to flip to open access through the Open Library of Humanities

Jun

11

2015

The Journal Of British and Irish Innovative Poetry, a formerly subscription-access journal in publication since 2009, has become the first of its kind to adopt the Open Library of the Humanities open access model. According to journal editors Scott Thurston, Gareth Farmer, and Vicky Sparrow: This move to a fully open-access platform with the OLH is ...

RESOURCE: A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights

Jun

11

2015

The UCLA Digital Humanities program has released A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights outlining an approach to working with students on DH projects aligned with the values and principles upon which the program operates. Building on the 2011 DH Collaborators’ Bill of Rights, this statement specifically foregrounds the power differential among students and the faculty, ...

RESOURCE: Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice

Jun

11

2015

The University of Michigan’s digitalculturebooks has announced the publication of the seventh title in their Digital Humanities Series, Douglas Eyman’s Digital Rhetoric: Theory, Method, Practice. This title seeks to bring work from fields including composition and rhetoric, human computer interaction, media and new media studies, game studies, and others into a definition of digital rhetoric. ...

JOB: Postdoctoral Fellow, Digital Humanities, Arizona State University

Jun

11

2015

From the job announcement: The School of Historical, Philosophical, & Religious Studies (SHPRS) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for a full-time, benefits eligible, digital humanities Postdoctoral Fellow. Under guidance of the principal investigators for the SocialScribe project on annotation, history, and time-based media, the successful candidate will take on the following leadership roles ...

JOB: Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist (2 Year Pilot Position), Northeastern University

Jun

11

2015

From the job announcement: Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist […] will help mobilize and design Library services supporting statistics and information visualization activities across Northeastern University. dh+lib ReviewThis post was produced through a cooperation between Elizabeth Anderson, Nickoal Eichmann, Franny Gaede, Leah Henrickson, and Jaqueline Woolcott (Editors-at-large for the week), Patrick Williams (Editor for the ...

POST: Open-Sourcing MoMA’s Digital Vault

May

14

2015

In “Open-Sourcing MoMA’s Digital Vault,” Ben Fino-Radin (Museum of Modern Art) explains the process and rationale behind the creation of Binder, the museum’s new open-source software for “overseeing and managing the active preservation of digital collections.” Binder was developed in conjunction with Artefactual Systems, and designed for use alongside Archivematica and Arkivum. What is good ...

POST: Becoming Digital Public Historians

May

14

2015

Trevor Owens (Institute of Museum and Library Services) has written a post on his blog, reflecting on his experience teaching a Digital Public History seminar at the University of Maryland’s College of Information Studies. “Becoming Digital Public Historians” references both the title of a course unit and, Owens argues, a “kind of identity work [that] is at the core ...

POST: Learning How Fair Use Works

May

14

2015

Kevin Smith (Duke University) has written a post introducing the new Fair Use Index released by the U.S. Copyright Office. The index, which will be updated and expanded by the Copyright Office, contains searchable summaries of approximately 170 fair use cases in U.S. courts and, as Smith notes, doubles as a learning tool: “the best ...