I set out this summer to write a column for Places on mapping, informed by all the background work I did to develop my new “Maps as Media” grad studio. Today, my editors mercifully informed me that what I’ve written is not an article, but a pedagogical prospectus. Doh! I sort-of suspected that. Re-reading the piece again, after about […]
This study was commissioned by Universities UK’s Open Access Co-ordination Group in response to a recommendation of the Finch Group in its second report in 2013 that reliable indicators should be gathered on key features of the transition to open access (OA) in the UK. Read full post here.
I wanted to explore Spotify’s metadata in a way that would model the interpretive messiness of generic categories. To do so, I built a program that bounces through Spotify’s metadata to produce multiple readings of the idea of genre in relation to a particular artist. Spotify offers a fairly robust API, and there are a number of […]
The Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor of digital media studies, beginning July 1, 2016. This position is a new category called an Innovation Hire, a four year position that invites the candidate to help shape the College’s curriculum in new directions. Read full post here.
Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon invites applications for the Digital Projects Developer position at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. Lewis & Clark is a selective liberal arts college with graduate programs in Education, Counseling Psychology, and Law. Read full post here.
UC Davis is recruiting an Associate Director, Data Management Program who will be responsible for “development, implementation, and leadership of a program that enables the Library to contribute to the management and accessibility of the university’s research outputs, including support of funding agency requirements.” Read the full post here.
Links to vital records, Holocaust resources, name origins, and Jewish genealogy collections. Read the full post here.
Following 20 hearings on copyright reform, the House Judiciary Committee could see substantive copyright reform legislation introduced before the end of the year. In advance of the renewed copyright reform conversation, the Computer & Communications Industry Association, which has testified on the subject, released its latest whitepaper Tuesday “Copyright Reform For a Digital Economy” along […]
It has been five months since Ant Spider Bee relaunched its site with the WordPress web aggregation and publication plugin PressForward. Thanks to a generous grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, we have been able to pilot this tool as a partner of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media. PressForward helps […]
The Digital Latin Library (DLL) project at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for a post-doctoral research position in interactive text visualization. Read the Full Post Here.
