From the post: OCLC and the Internet Archive today announced the results of a year-long cooperation to ensure the future of purl.org. The organizations have worked together to build a new service hosted by the Internet Archive that will manage the persistent URLs and sub-domain redirections for purl.org, purl.com and purl.net. Read full announcement here.
From the CFP: Digital Humanities Centres: Experiences and Perspectives” will be an opportunity to share experiences and reflect on the perspectives of DH institutions. The consideration of different aspects of DH centres activities from various points of view will hopefully enable participants to come with new ideas and solutions useful in they day-to-day work. Source:…
From the CFP: The ubiquity of digital platforms, spaces, and networks for writing in our current moment makes it difficult to imagine forms of publishing that exclusively circulate in print. Yet, innovations in mobility, connectivity, and multimodality suggest that the effects of digital publishing are echoing deeply into our larger socio-technical systems. This blog carnival seeks…
Michigan State University is recruiting an assistant professor of Ancient Mediterranean History. From the ad: Michigan State University’s Department of History seeks a historian with research expertise in ancient Mediterranean History. Candidates must be able to teach classes on ancient Greece and Rome and must demonstrate an ability to enhance department and university strengths. We have a…
From the CFP: The Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) brings together researchers and scholars in the humanities and computer science to examine the current state of digital humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. DEADLINE EXTENDED to September 26, 2016. Read…
Michigan State University is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian. From the ad: We invite an inventive and service-oriented person to join an expanding cross-functional team which is dedicated to supporting faculty and student use of digital information and computationally-based methods to achieve scholarly and research goals…The Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian will work with a…
Civil War historian Edward Ayers will be giving a talk at Washington and Lee University talk on September 22 called “Civil War History and Digital Humanities.” The talk is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by the Digital Humanities Committee and funded through a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Read full announcement here.
From the CFP: From smart homes to smart cities, digital processes now underlie our everyday lives in ways that are difficult to see. While the computer screen has long served as a way to understand the demarcation between digital and non-digital, online and offline, we have entered a situation in which the line is fuzzier…
We are looking for individual research projects which make use of Europeana Collections for research purposes: employing state of the art tools and methods in the Digital Humanities to address a specific research question. We expect to see applications deploying as much of the Europeana data (e.g., the API, metadata) as possible. You should be…
From the ad: The Historical Institute / Center for Contemporary and Digital History University of Luxembourg has obtained a large grant from the Fonds National de la Recherche Luxembourg in the framework of the so-called PRIDE-program, enabling the creation of a Doctoral Training Unit (DTU) and opens up to 13 positions for PhD students (Doctoral candidates)…