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CFParticipation: NARA’s Revised Digitization Strategy

Oct

16

2014

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has requested input on its revised Digitization Strategy, which is part of the National Archives 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. Marcus Most, Director of the Digitization Division at the National Archives, notes: Our revised strategy outlines some key approaches to digitization at NARA: Cultivating partnerships with institutions and organizations from ...

JOB: Assistant Head Librarian, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (NYU)

Oct

16

2014

From the announcement: The Assistant Head Librarian is responsible for managing day-to-day operations, including: Library Operations – Coordinate workflow, establish priorities and assign work to ISAW’s library staff. Train new staff. Manage special projects by devising appropriate workflows and providing supervision. Technical Services – Supervise the work of ISAW’s cataloging team, a group performing original ...

POST: Open Access Publishing and Geo-Spatial Tools for (Music) Research

Oct

9

2014

Anna Kijas (University of Connecticut) has posted the text and slides from her Digital Frontiers 2014 talk, “Open Access Publishing and Geo-Spatial Tools for (Music Research).” Kijas discusses her process for selecting a platform to document and disseminate her research on the Venezuelan pianist and composer Teresa Carreño, as her “goal evolved from simply publishing a print book ...

POST: Doing Web Accessibility

Oct

9

2014

Michael Rodriguez (Hodges University) has written a post at LITA Blog about improving web accessibility for library webpages. Rodriguez discusses several ways to do this work, including using the W3C Markup Validator, the WAVE Tool, and browser developer tools. He notes, You’re not a web developer, you say? Neither am I. But even if your ...

RESOURCE: Wayfinding at the Opening of an Era: Digital Scholarship, Data, and ETDs

Oct

9

2014

In her keynote to the 2014 United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association (USETDA) conference, held in Orlando, FL, at the end of September, Laurie N. Taylor (University of Florida) discussed the evolution of theses and dissertations to incorporate new forms, processes, and products of research, enabled by digital scholarship and pursued with the goal ...

CFP: DHSI Colloquium

Oct

9

2014

Proposals are being accepted for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) Colloquium, to be held during DHSI in June 2015 at the University of Victoria. All are welcome to submit, and proposals should be 300-500 words on topics including (but not limited to) the scholar’s role in personal and institutional research projects, tool application and development, ...

CFP: CNI Fall 2014

Oct

9

2014

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is now accepting proposals for project briefings at its next membership meeting, December 8-9 in Washington, D.C. Project briefings address state-of-the-art developments and issues of interest to the membership, as outlined in each year’s Program Plan. Management of data, digital content, and institutional information resources, digital preservation, innovations in ...

JOB: Tribal Digital Archives Curriculum Coordinator, Washington State University Libraries

Oct

2

2014

From the position announcement: This position will assist in the development, coordination and promotion of a fifteen month curriculum focused on emphasizing the lifecycle of digital preservation and access with specific attention to tribal needs and relevant issues. Reports to the Head of Digital Scholarship and Curation (DSC). DSC is a new unit within the ...

RESOURCE: Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage

Oct

2

2014

Mia Ridge (Open University) announced that her edited volume, Crowdsourcing our Cultural Heritage is now available for purchase. “Crowdsourcing, or asking the general public to help contribute to shared goals, is increasingly popular in memory institutions as a tool for digitising or computing vast amounts of data. This book brings together for the first time the collected ...

POST: Evaluating Non-Traditional Digital Humanities Dissertations

Oct

2

2014

Amanda Visconti (MITH) has written a post about how to “chart progress and record effort through the non-traditional dissertation.” She notes, Having a unique format scrubs a lot of the traditional methods for evaluating these factors: maybe there’s no “chapter” to turn in, or you’ve undertaken a critical building project in a programming language your committee ...

POST: We Have Never Been Digital

Oct

2

2014

Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) has written a post responding to Thomas Haigh’s reflection “on the intersection of computing and the humanities,” concluding that “we have never been and never will be entirely digital.” Rockwell explores the implications of this on digital humanities and whether the discipline can evolve to meet new scholarly demands. Citing Haigh: “There ...