The Yale University Library (YUL) is seeking a Digital Accessioning Archivist for Yale Special Collections. This position will contribute to the development of best practices and workflows for accessioning born-digital material, undertake the hands-on work of disk imaging, train and supervise the work of student assistants and other staff, and make recommendations related to post-term digital […]
Otterbein University is searching for a Digital Initiatives Librarian. This librarian will provide leadership, management and policy and planning activities for the campus-wide digitization projects and digital initiatives Read full post here.
As the Supreme Court reaffirmed in 2012, facilitating the dissemination of creative expression is an important means of fulfilling the constitutional mandate to “promote the Progress of Science” through the copyright system. This Report addresses two circumstances in which the accomplishment of that goal may be hindered under the current law due to practical obstacles preventing […]
This report, Making Open Science a Reality reviews the progress in OECD countries in making the results of publicly funded research, namely scientific publications and research data openly accessible to researchers and innovators alike. The report i) reviews the policy rationale behind open science and open data; ii) discusses and presents evidence on the impacts […]
The British Library is looking for university partners to co-supervise collaborative research projects that will draw on – and develop – aspects of digital scholarship. Funding is available from the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) programme, through which the Library works with UK university partners to deliver a bespoke PhD research and […]
The English Department at the University of Utah invites applications for a position in Digital Humanities at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to begin Fall 2016. We are open to all fields in literary studies and all approaches to Digital Humanities. We are especially interested in candidates who wish to help shape an […]
Followers of the ISAW News Blog will have seen the recent piece on the award of an NEH grant for new work on the Pleiades gazetteer and the follow-up piece about my intended participation at a meeting of similarly funded project directors. NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities intends to post video of all the talks online, but meantime, here are words I read and the slides I showed […]
I have been thinking about POWs and forced laborers lately. My article on digital memory of World War II came out with Memory Studies and in it I analyzed projects like the Russian governments OBD-Memorial, a huge database of Soviet soldiers who died in the war. I’ve also been working on a project on the […]
The University of Padua is hosting a conference on December 10, 2015. The conference will address the issue of digital literacy by focussing on three main areas: (1) Policies that promote the development of these skills; (2) Research on the necessary skills for efficiently engaging in digital environments in an informed manner; (3) Experiences and […]
The School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication (WRTC) at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor to begin August 2016. We seek a colleague who specializes in digital media theory and practice, with a PhD (in hand by August 2016) in Technical and Professional Communication, Rhetoric and Composition or a related field. Read […]
