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JOB: Digital Library Access Engineer, Stanford University

Mar

25

2014

From the announcement: “Stanford University Libraries is seeking an enthusiastic and talented software engineer to support infrastructure and services as part of its digital library, an internationally recognized technology program developing innovative solutions to advance teaching, learning and research at one of the world’s leading universities. We are a mission-driven organization that emphasizes open, collaborative ...

POST: The Walt Whitman Archive

Mar

24

2014

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) shared an update on a new project related to the Walt Whitman Archive, a longstanding DH project that “sets out to make Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers.” Working in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin and the Center ...

POST: Literary Texts and the Library in the Digital Age, or, How Library DH is Made

Mar

18

2014

Glen Worthey (Stanford University) has posted a written version of his talk from last year’s ALA Annual conference in Chicago, “Literary texts and the library in the digital age, or, How library DH is made.” As part of a panel on new roles for European and American Studies librarians in digital literary scholarship, Worthey touches ...

RESOURCE: Critical Approaches to Digital Humanities at VCU

Mar

18

2014

Fiona Barnett (HASTAC) has created a Storify from the recent “Critical Approaches to Digital Humanities” (#cadh) symposium at Virginia Commonwealth University. Featuring a keynote address by Tara McPherson (USC), the event aimed to provide “an opportunity for scholars and students to focus specifically on DH’s impact, both positive and negative, on the humanities.” The Storify also includes discussion ...

POST: The Red Herring of Big Data

Mar

18

2014

Brian Croxall (Emory University) has shared text and slides from an August 2013 talk entitled, “The Red Herring of Big Data,” in which he offers an engaging overview of the ways that digital humanities scholars can use digital technologies to go beyond pattern recognition and into humanities interpretation. Croxall reviews recent projects concerned with both ...

CFP: Bridging GLAM and Humanities through DH (JADH 2014)

Mar

18

2014

The Japanese Association for Digital Humanities has issued a call for papers for its annual conference, JADH 2014, to take place September 19-21, 2014 in Ibaraki, Japan. This year’s conference theme is “Bridging GLAM and Humanities through Digital Humanities”: At JADH2014 we will be especially interested in hearing presentations that focus on these [digital] methodologies ...

RESOURCE: Data Mining the Internet Archive Collection

Mar

18

2014

A new lesson by Caleb McDaniel on The Programming Historian focuses on downloading and analyzing records from the Internet Archive. From the description: In this lesson, you’ll learn how to download files from such collections using a Python module specifically designed for the Internet Archive. You will also learn how to use another Python module ...

JOB: Curator of Digital Collections, Chemical Heritage Foundation

Mar

18

2014

From the announcement: The Chemical Heritage Foundation (CHF) is actively recruiting for the newly created position of Curator of Digital Collections. Founded in 1982, CHF is a collections-based non-profit organization that preserves the history and heritage of chemistry, chemical engineering, and related sciences and technologies. The collections of rare books, archives, images, fine art, museum ...

POST: Walking the Talk

Mar

11

2014

Kevin Smith (Duke University) has written a post recapping a presentation by Erin McKirenan (National Institute of Public Health, Mexico) about her commitment to open access at the SPARC Open Access meeting. There, McKirenan “offered concrete suggestions for early-career researchers who want to work in the open and also get appropriate credit for their work. Her ...

POST: Accessible Future Workshop

Mar

11

2014

Adeline Koh (Richard Stockton College) wrote about her experiences at Accessible Future, an NEH-funded workshop on making the web more accessible to people with disabilities. Held at the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, the two day workshop was led by Jennifer Guiliano (University of Maryland) and George Williams (University of South Carolina Upstate). ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship & Visual Resources Librarian, Connecticut College

Mar

10

2014

From the announcement: “Connecticut College seeks an innovative and learner-centered Digital Scholarship and Visual Resources Librarian who understands the changing environment of instructional technology, digital scholarship, and visual resources in an academic environment. The successful candidate will lead the development and coordinate the College’s digital scholarship program. S/he will also promote and support the use ...