From the announcement: Harvard Library seeks a skilled, innovative, and collaborative professional to serve as Digital Collections Program Manager at Houghton Library. The incumbent leads, coordinates, participates in, and/or collaborates on a series of initiatives and activities designed to build digital collections that facilitate access to and discovery of the library’s holdings, as well as…
From the job ad: The UMass Amherst Libraries seek a dynamic and innovative Data Services Librarian. The incumbent will lead the UMass Amherst Libraries‘ efforts to support faculty, researchers and students in the management of their research data throughout the research life-cycle. Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst Job Posting: Data Services Librarian (Librarian III or…
From the post: The executive committee of The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) seeks to elect four positions on its executive committee for the term 2017-2020, and now opens its Call for Nominations. The committee highlights the importance of a diverse and representative executive, and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds. For further information, please…
From the post: The Aga Khan Documentation Center at MIT has released its prototype of Layer Cake, a 3-axes mapping tool that enables users to build maps layering narrative, time, and space simultaneously. Envisioned by AKDC Program Head, Sharon C. Smith, Ph.D., the tool has become a reality thanks to the programming expertise of James…
In calling for research papers to be made freely available open access advocates promised that doing so would lead to a simpler, less costly, more democratic, and more effective scholarly communication system. To achieve their objectives they proposed two different ways of providing open access: green OA (self-archiving) and gold OA (open access publishing). However,…
From the post: Please vote for the following resources from 2016 in the DH Awards 2016. Have a look over the resources in each category and then fill out the form linked to at the bottom of the page in order to vote. For frequently asked questions please see http://dhawards.org/dhawards2016/faqs2016/ for more information. We are sorry if…
From the post: The Programming Historian Needs YOU…to help historians digitally analyse! We’ve published 57 peer-reviewed tutorials since we launched in 2012, and we’re proud of our pioneering role within digital humanities. These lessons are on topics as wide-ranging as introductory Python programming, Web Scraping, and Regular Expressions. Many of our lessons involve learning how to…
This project aims to locate, digitalize, archive, and disseminate online photographs from the substantial holdings of images of modern China held mostly in private hands outside the country. These are often of even greater historic interest than might ordinarily be the case, as the destruction of materials in China through war and revolution in the twentieth…