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POST: Submissions to Digital Humanities 2015 (pt. 1-3)

Nov

13

2014

Scott Weingart (Indiana University) has written a series of posts about submissions to Digital Humanities 2015. The first post provides an overview of submissions, the second post compares and contrasts submissions for 2015 with the previous two years, and the third post investigates “the geography of submissions.” He observes, among other shifts, a rise in ...

RESOURCE: Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities

Nov

13

2014

Alex Christie (University of Victoria), Andrew Pilsch (Arizona State University), Shawna Ross (Arizona State University- Polytechnic), and Katie Tanigawa (University of Victoria) released the Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities following the Modernist Studies Association Annual conference. The manifesto offers strategies for critiquing methods and content, a framework for how modernists can create their own digital strategies: Modernists Digital Strategies should ...

POST: Johannes Factotum and the Ends of Expertise

Nov

6

2014

Bethany Nowviskie has shared the text of her keynote address at the 2014 Digital Library Federation Forum, in which she examines the changing nature of expertise in the academy. Nowviskie lauds the DLF community and the Forum in particular for bringing together a unique mix of experts and generalists: The ability (actually, I think, the ...

POST: The Internet Arcade and the Textures of Emulation

Nov

6

2014

Matthew Battles (metaLAB at Harvard) has written a post reflecting on his recent visit to the Internet Archive, where he was given a peek into Jason Scott‘s work archiving computer software and arcade games after giving a talk at the Books in Browsers conference. It’s technologically both antic and elegant: Jason’s system has parsed and ...

RESOURCE: Library Collections as Humanities Data

Nov

6

2014

Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University) has shared a postprint pdf of a paper co-authored with Devin Higgins that “argues for thinking about library collections as Humanities data.” As Padilla writes in a blog post introducing their work: I think its important that we as librarians study and argue about our collections in a manner befitting ...

CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2015

Nov

6

2014

Proposals are now being accepted for the Personal Digital Archiving 2015 conference, to take place April 24-26, 2015, in New York City. Co-sponsored by NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program, the NYU Libraries, and the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), the conference “will have two full days of presentations focused on a set ...

RESOURCE: Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline

Oct

30

2014

Sarah Werner (Folger Shakespeare Library) has shared the online pdf of the paper she co-wrote with Matthew Kirschenbaum (MITH) for the journal Book History, titled “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline.” Reflecting on her blog, Werner writes that: Our review essay, “Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies,” takes as its argument our belief that book historians ...

OPPORTUNITY: iSchool at the University of Illinois Recruiting for PhD Students

Oct

30

2014

Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) has shared a recruiting call from the University of Illinois Graduate School of Library and Information Science for “high quality doctoral students who want to design, develop, and evaluate informatics solutions to the grand challenges of the twenty-first century. Admitted candidates typically receive up to 4 years of funding ...

JOB: Digital Liberal Arts Librarian, Hope College

Oct

30

2014

From the announcement: “The Digital Liberal Arts Librarian position is designed to enhance the liberal arts at Hope College by empowering faculty, librarians, and students to make full and better use of the digital technologies that are reshaping pedagogical approaches and transforming research throughout the liberal arts. This position is designed to allow the library ...

CFParticipation: DLF Program Planning Committee

Oct

30

2014

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) shared a call to encourage “members of our community, and those involved in the greater digital library community, to participate in the planning of the 2015 DLF Forum.” Participation requires monthly and then bi-weekly planning phone calls starting in December 2014. Planning Committee members are also expected to attend the ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of South Alabama

Oct

29

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Initiatives Librarian will work with the Marx Library Head of Reference & Instruction and the Director of the Doy Leale McCall Rare Book and Manuscript Library to manage existing locally held digital content and to identify and develop prospective digital projects. Because the USA Libraries are new to locally managing ...