News, Reports

Report: The 2017 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing

From the report: I’m filing this conference report from the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which just wrapped in Orlando, Florida. The conference is a project of Anita B.org, which has been a community for women in computing since 1987. According to the GHC conference website, it’s the largest gathering of women in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Project Manager, Digital Projects, NYU Libraries

From the ad: The Project Manager, Digital Projects, reporting to the Associate Dean, Digital Library Technology Services, will lead New York University Libraries’ efforts to complete several technology initiatives. The Project Manager, Digital Projects will research cloud services, work with the Hemispheric Institute and DLTS developers and designers on the HIDVL site redesign. They will […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarly Publishing Specialist, NYU Libraries

From the ad: Reporting jointly to the NYU Press and the NYU Libraries, the Digital Scholarly Publishing Specialist develops and manages a variety of digital services and projects ranging from advising and assisting NYU faculty and advanced graduate students in electronic dissemination of their scholarly work to the development of innovative publishing initiatives, such as […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor of Convergent Media, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

From the ad: The College of Media invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor position in Convergent Media, including the interaction between the old and new media systems and platforms. Successful candidates should demonstrate an innovative research and teaching agenda. Appointments will be made on a tenure-track, 9-month academic year basis in one of the College’s […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Suffrage Postcard Project – A Replica Archive

At the 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference, in a panel about digital history, Professor Victoria Haskins discussed what she described as a “replica archive.”  Haskins’ research is concerned with Indigenous domestic servants in Australia and the United States – women whose lives, she rightly notes, are often difficult to uncover in the archives.  Technology, however, […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Publishing Lead, George Mason University Libraries

From the ad: George Mason University Libraries is seeking a dynamic, innovative, and service-oriented individual to lead efforts in management of digital publishing platforms and tools for Mason Publishing and the George Mason University Press. Reporting to the director of Mason Publishing/GMU Press, the digital publishing lead will interact with faculty, students, and library staff […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: International Digital Curation Conference 2018

From the CFP: The focus of IDCC in 2018 is sharing practical lessons on the efforts made so far to curate data and pursue a digital data commons. Papers should address one of three overarching themes: Data Skills and services Value We want to hear from different communities on data processing pipelines – what works […]

News, Resources

Resource: Version 8 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography Released

About the resource: Digital Scholarship has released Version 8 of the Research Data Curation Bibliography. This selective bibliography includes over 680 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. Printed from the HTML page, it is over 130 pages long. […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor of English in Digital Humanities/Big Data, Texas Christian University

From the ad: The English Department at TCU, which offers Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. degrees within a teacher-scholar model, invites applications for a tenure-track position inCandidates who combine digital humanities (e.g., distant reading, big data analysis, GIS) with secondary expertise in American literature or Global literature are especially welcome. We seek scholars with a developed […]