From the CFP: Often celebrated and criticized as the next big thing in humanist research and teaching, “the digital humanities” get a lot of press for shaking up the way things are done. But is “dh” a continuation of some of the most “traditional” scholarly work in the humanities: bibliography, textual criticism, and book history?…
From the announcement: We are pleased to announce the launch of the Journal of Historical Network Research, a new publication dedicated to historical research by means of theories and methodologies developed in social network analysis and network science. Read full post here.
From the CFP: The human and social sciences are experiencing an influx of quantitative methods which try to deal with the questions of meaning, at the centre of semiotic reflection…This special issue of Semiotica seeks to present studies that employ or explore quantitative measures to reshape the ways in which we may study what is meaningful….
Lafayette College is recruiting a Digital Library Developer. From the ad: Lafayette College Library seeks a talented and passionate developer to lead the design, management, and development of our digital library services…The person selected for this position will collaborate with other community members around the nation and beyond with the aim of extending and refining…
From the resource: Want to make a visual timeline, but don’t have the time to draw one manually? Or maybe you have some documents, but you’re not sure if the events they depict form a compelling timeline? TimeLineCurator quickly and automatically extracts temporal references in freeform text to generate a visual timeline…Already using TimelineJS? TimeLineCurator…
One of the problems I’ve had for a while with traditional digital literacy programs is that they tend to see digital literacy as a separable skill from domain knowledge. In the metaphor of most educators, there’s a set of digital or information literacy skills, which is sort of like the factory process. And there’s data, which…
From the post: The Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL Lab) at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago would like to announce that a substantial subset of its digital holdings of maps and geospatial data are now available for online public search and download. Read full post here.
UCLA is recruiting a Head of the Digital Library Program. From the ad: Reporting to the Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Research and Development, the Head of the Digital Library Program works with the Digital Library Architect and other senior departmental managers to establish the vision, set strategic goals and identify projects and priorities for…
From the announcement: While the adage goes that nothing ever disappears from the internet, anyone who created a Geocities site, or used their old university servers (or forgot to pay to renew domain registration) knows that more often than we’re led to believe, stuff goes away and we can’t find it anymore. The Wayback Machine has…
Stanford University is recruiting a Repository Specialist (Data Operations). From the ad: The Repository Specialist (Data Operations) supports the current and evolving operations of the Stanford Digital Repository. The role is focused on: managing projects to accession digital content from a wide variety of sources, including publishers, researchers and aggregators, into the repository for long…