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Author: Colleen Nugent

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital Humanities

From the ad: The Alice Kaplan Humanities Institute invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Digital Humanities, to run from September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2020. Applications are welcome from scholars who bring to research and teaching the theoretical, methodological, creative, and/or technical practice of digital technologies. We welcome applications from scholars who engage with emerging digital cultures […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Technologies Development Librarian, Montana State University

From the ad: The Digital Technologies Development Librarian (DTDL) works as an active member of a service-oriented team that advances digital library initiatives via applied research, application development, and strategic guidance during the lifecycle of projects. The DTDL assists with creation and maintenance of a diverse portfolio of digital products and services (e.g. DSpace, Open […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: DHSI 2018 Conference and Colloquium

From the CFP: Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the DHSI Conference & Colloquium, to be held in June 2018 alongside classes at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute, University of Victoria. Open to all, the DHSI Conference & Colloquium offers an opportunity to present research and projects within an engaging, collegial atmosphere. Participation comes […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Twitter’s Response to “The Digital-Humanities Bust”

On October 15, 2017, the Chronicle of Higher Education posted a piece by Timothy Brennan entitled “The Digital-Humanities Bust.” The piece sparked a conversation on Twitter, including a thread by Ted Underwood and the #DHimpact hashtag. Instead of featuring a blog post as Editor’s Choice like usual, we have embedded the tweets below to capture […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Academic and Digital Engagement Officer, University of London – Institute of Historical Research

From the ad: We are interested in meeting experienced candidates with wide-ranging expertise in web writing, editing, and publishing, as well as experience of social media management and communication strategy development, from within a UK/US historical environment. Importantly, you will have a proven understanding of aspects of British history and its sources, coupled with understanding […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Content Editor, City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs

From the ad: The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) seeks a temporary full-time Digital Content Editor with an excellent eye for detail and experience proofing, editing, and writing multi-lingual content for use across a range of media that will be produced for the Promise Zone Arts (PZA) initiative, a DCA-led cultural […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Boston Public Library’s Sound Archives Coming to the Internet Archive for Preservation & Public Access

From the announcement: Today, the Boston Public Library announced the transfer of significant holdings from its Sound Archives Collection to the Internet Archive, which will digitize, preserve and make these recordings accessible to the public. The Boston Public Library (BPL) sound collection includes hundreds of thousands of audio recordings in a variety of historical formats, […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Books from 1923 to 1941 Now Liberated!

From the announcement: The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to scan and make available materials published 1923 to 1941 if they are not being actively sold. Elizabeth Townsend Gard, a copyright scholar at Tulane University calls this “Library […]

News, Resources

Resource: Kicking off the GCDI Sound Series – A Workshop on Sound

About the resource: Later today, I am teaching a workshop on sound, kicking off our new GCDI Sound Series. In the workshop I will review a variety of digital tools, techniques and concepts for recording, editing and sharing sound… Like the workshops led by previous Digital Fellows, my workshop is publicly available to follow online. Currently, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Excel vs R – A Brief Introduction to R

Quantitative research often begins with the humble process of counting. Historical documents are never as plentiful as a historian would wish, but counting words, material objects, court cases, etc. can lead to a better understanding of the sources and the subject under study. When beginning the process of counting, the first instinct is to open […]