We are looking for new and existing pieces on methods and standards for evaluating digital humanities scholarship to include in the upcoming issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities. Our goal is to bring together resources from a variety of sources to help the producers and evaluators of digital humanities scholarship better frame, discuss, and […]
The Writing Studies Tree (WST,writingstudiestree.org) is an online, open-access, crowdsourced database of scholarly relationships within writing studies, composition/rhetoric and related academic fields. Created by Graduate Center students in 2011-2012, the WST combines a fixed data structure with open editing privileges to rapidly aggregate the work of thousands of individuals’ small data entry efforts into scalable […]
The series of reports explores new forms of teaching, learning and assessment for an interactive world, to guide teachers and policy makers in productive innovation. The first report proposes ten innovations that are already in currency but have not yet had a profound influence on education: Assessment for learning Badges to accredit learning Learning analytics MOOCs […]
**Job purpose:** To contribute to the development and implementation of the Library’s Digital Scholarship Strategy. To support curators and other professionals in the integration of digital collections and digital tools into routine curatorial functions. To lead the project management of complex digital or digitisation projects, working closely with curators in discipline areas. To train and […]
NINES is happy to announce the integration of a new resource: Britain, Represention, And Nineteenth-Century History (BRANCH), edited by Dino Franco Felluga. The site provides users with a free, expansive, searchable, reliable, peer-reviewed, copy-edited, easy-to-use overview of the period 1775-1925. And thanks to its site structure, BRANCH offers users an innovative approach to history itself, […]
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.
