The Duke University Divinity School Library is recruiting a Digitization and Technology Librarian. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: To capture and preserve both the original intellectual capital and resources produced or licensed/purchased by the Duke Divinity School in digital format and oversee the dissemination of these digital holdings.
The History Department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral position in digital historical research and teaching, beginning July 1, 2013. Applicants should have received the PhD in History or a related discipline within the last five years, but the position is not limited to a specific chronological era…
This Tutorial is for Members Only When presented with a static graphic, it can be useful to see specific values after you see overall patterns. This tutorial shows you how to add simple interactions to a choropleth map so you can get specifics for regions.
Reporting to the Assistant Director, Special Formats Processing, the Metadata Coordinator: Sets standards for metadata schema and descriptive standards. Documents best practices for metadata creation for digital objects, including metadata created by or purchased from third parties. Works closely with the Digital Repository staff to ensure that descriptive and technical metadata standards are embedded into…
Some people who couldn’t make the Museums Association conference (or #museums2012) asked for more information on the session on digital strategies, so here are my introductory remarks and some scribbled highlights of the speakers’ papers and discussion with the audience.
I recently began a Masters in Digital Arts and Humanities at UCC in Cork, Ireland. I thought it might be a useful exercise to hold a series of Skype or Google+ Hangouts chats with other novice digital humanists, along the lines of Jack Dougherty’s post. This first informal chat would more than likely be on…
We Need More Signposts!, A Call for Abstracts and Papers on Alt-Ac Careers « Brian Croxall. In May of this year, a second Getting There cluster was announced. Like the first, this collection will provide a venue for discussing the pathways one may take to an alt-ac track and provide these signposts for those who are curious…
SHARP 2013 – Call for Papers We invite submissions for the 21st annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), to be held in Philadelphia from July 18-21, 2013. The program will take place primarily on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Sponsors include the University of Pennsylvania…
Oberlin in Asia Digital Collection. The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, the Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program, and the Oberlin College Archives and Library present this online digital collection that documents the activity of Oberlinians in Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. This teaching and research collection contains materials from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial…
CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships – Call for 2013 Fellows. CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) invites applications for its Visiting Research Fellowship Programme for 2013. The fellowships are being funded through the CENDARI project by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. Visiting Research Fellowships are available in the following CENDARI partner institutions Trinity…