Job Advertisement: Assistant Professor, Digital Humanities | Michael Ullyot. The Department of English at the University of Calgary invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective July 1, 2013. We are seeking candidates with a completed PhD in English or a closely related discipline, a demonstrated scholarly record, intellectual breadth…
Registration Open: Free ALA Webinar on Digital Literacy and Libraries | District Dispatch. How do librarians and educators keep up with the continual stream of new advancements? How do they motivate and support library staff in staying current? To facilitate a national dialogue on digital literacy education, the American Library Association (ALA) will host the…
CFP: DiGRA 2013 Call for Participation | laurie n. taylor The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) announces the Call for Participation for DiGRA 2013, to be hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta Georgia. DiGRA 2013 will bring together a diverse international community of interdisciplinary researchers engaged in cutting…
Hamilton Intro to Digital Humanities Which of the following methodologies are you currently using to teach students in the humanities? • Archive or Collection Development • Cultural Analytics or Text Analytics • Crowdsourcing • Geospatial Techniques • Virtual Worlds, 3D Modeling, and/or Games • Other?
Archives Gig – Mountain View, CA: Digital Archivist, The Computer History Museum. The Computer History Museum, located in the heart of Silicon Valley, California, seeks an articulate, creative & “can-do” individual for the Digital Archivist position. The Museum’s mission is to preserve and present for posterity the artifacts and stories of the information age. This…
Built Upon Series – CFP – Anvil Academic What we’re looking for We’re looking for proposals that advance discussions about what information-age analysis in the humanities should be and do. This doesn’t mean that we’re resistant to text-centric arguments, or that we’re simply uncritical boosters of any use of digital tools or algorithmic methods for…
We here at Digital Humanities Now are thrilled to invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for the spring semester, 2013. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, and suggest content for publication in DHNow and the Journal of…
To assist libraries in informing the public about e-book lending practices, the American Library Association (ALA) released today the “ALA E-book Media & Communications Toolkit,” a set of materials that will support librarians in taking action in their communities. E-Book Media and Communications Toolkit | Transforming Libraries.
Crowdcrafting is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It is a joint effort between theOpen Knowledge Foundation and Citizen Cyberscience Centre, It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. Crowdcrafting is there to help researchers, civic hackers…
The overall goal of TEXTUS is to provide an open-source platform through which scholars and students are able to re-use the vast and expanding amount of digitised cultural heritage material now available through portals such as the Internet Archive, Wikisource and Project Gutenberg. The aim is to enable scholarly communities to easily establish their own…