Resource: Humanities Collections and Reference Resources
The National Endowment for the Humanities has released guidelines for Humanities Collections and Reference Resources grants. Read the Full Post Here.
Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
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CFP: Nominations Now Open for the 2015 NDSA Innovation Awards
The National Digital Stewardship Alliance Innovation Working Group is proud to open the nominations for the 2015 NDSA Innovation Awards. These awards are an example of the NDSA’s commitment to encourage and recognize innovation in the digital stewardship community. Read the Full Post Here.
Announcement: Digital Curation Workflow and Tools Workshop
The workshop covers essential questions that will need to be answered in order to create an efficient and sustainable workflow for digital preservation. The instructor will share digital preservation management strategies and provide practical planning tips and examples of workflows from differing organizations both large and small. Read the Full Post Here.
Editors’ Choice: Sentiment and Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
I’ve been working on an update to the small amount of work I did on the black woman suffrage database to present at Women’s History in the Digital World at the end of this month. Working with twice as many files (now 904 items) as I had for the first project (more details on corpus), […]
Resource: How-To Guide for Basic Collaborating in GitHub
The summer is upon us, and I have had the great good fortune of a grant to be able to work with three IT students from Marymount on the Novels in Context project. We are all learning about how to collaborate using GitHub for version control, and I found myself in the exciting position of having to teach […]
Job: Head of Digital Initiatives at University of Waterloo
The University of Waterloo is recruiting a Head, Digital Initiatives. Read the full post here.
Job: Assistant Manager, Digitization Services at New York Public Library
The Digital Imaging Unit of NYPL Labs is seeking a knowledgeable and experienced Assistant Manager to help The New York Public Library to share its vast collections with the world through digitization. Read the full post here.
Resource: The Saharan World at a Glance is Launched
I am happy to announce that my site the Saharan World at a Glance (SWAG) is now live. This site is an education resource designed to introduce an undergraduate audience to the history, culture and politics of North Africa and the Sahel. This site is specifically conceived of as a tool that students will access […]
Editors’ Choice: A Letter to the Humanities: DH Will Not Save You
I am often asked about the digital humanities and how it can update, make relevant, and provide funding for many a beleaguered humanities department. Some faculty at underfunded institutions imagine DH is going to revitalize their discipline — it’s going to magically interest undergraduates, give faculty research funding, and exponentially increase enrollment. Well, the reality […]
Announcement: Far-reaching “Hydra-in-a-Box” Joint Initiative Funded by IMLS
The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), Stanford University, and the DuraSpace organization are pleased to announce that their joint initiative has been awarded a $2M National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Nicknamed Hydra-in-a-Box, the project aims foster a new, national, library network through a community-based repository system, enabling discovery, interoperability and reuse of digital […]