The Laboratorium : HathiTrust Wins. Judge Baer issued his decision in the HathiTrust case, and it’s a near-complete victory for HathiTrust and its print-disabled codefendants. The opinion doesn’t even make it seem like a close case. On every substantive copyright issue, HathiTrust won: Section 108 on library privileges doesn’t limit the scope of fair use. A search […]
Digital Humanities Implementation Grants | National Endowment for the Humanities. Office of Digital Humanities Receipt Deadline January 23, 2013 for Projects Beginning September 2013 Brief Summary This program is designed to fund the implementation of innovative digital-humanities projects that have successfully completed a start-up phase and demonstrated their value to the field. Such projects might enhance our understanding […]
Dan Cohen’s Digital Humanities Blog. I just wanted to remind potential doctoral students in history that George Mason University and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media have Digital History Research Awards for students entering the History and Art History doctoral program. Students receiving these awards will get five years of fully funded studies, as follows: $20,000 research stipends in […]
H-Net Job Guide. The Department of History at Idaho State University seeks a tenure track, assistant professor in digital history, focusing on historical GIS. The field of specialization is open, though preference is towards candidates who will reinforce department strengths in environmental history, women’s history, transnational history, or the North American West. A Ph.D. in […]
Digital Humanities Design Consultant. The Pennsylvania State University Libraries are currently seeking a Digital Humanities Design Consultant who is a creative researcher interested in exploring an “alternative academic” career and in expanding the modes of humanistic research through emerging and existing technologies. The person in this position will be a critical part of initiating services […]
Faculty Job Openings › University of Connecticut. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences is dedicating four new faculty positions to the Digital Humanities and New Media cluster. Three of the four positions will specialize in the Digital Humanities, and will encompass the use of technology in the study of text and the adaptation of literary criticism to account for the […]
Assistant Professor, Digital Media, Tenure-Track – Faculty Positions – NYU Steinhardt. The Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin September 1, 2013. We are seeking to fill a position in […]
Scholars’ Lab. Continuing our roll-out of Omeka plugins we’ve been working on here at the Scholars’ Lab, I’m pleased to announce the BagIt plugin for Omeka. BagIt is a specification by the Library of Congressfor creating containers of files with metadata. However, the files don’t actually have to be in the container. There is a fetch.txt file, which lists URLs for content […]
CFP: Memory and the Digital Humanities: A Pecha Kucha Roundtable | HASTAC. Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2012 Fordham University Graduate English Association’s interdisciplinary conference “Remembering, Forgetting, Imagining: The Practices of Memory” March 1-2, 2013 Fordham University, New York, NY Call for Papers: Do digital platforms change the way we remember? How will the myriad […]
Scholars’ Lab. The Scholars’ Lab is pleased to announce the first release of the SolrSearch Omeka plugin. SolrSearch allows you to replace Omeka’s default search with Solr. Solr is a standard, popular, open source, fast text search engine server. It handles hit highlighting, date math, numeric aggregation functions (mean, max, etc.), indexing for 33 languages, replication, and many, many […]
