The University of Houston is recruiting qualified individuals for several positions: An English Librarian “with knowledge of or experience in the study of digital humanities.” A Digital Scholarship Librarian A Data Services Librarian The full job ads can be found here, here, and here respectively.
Where do witches come from, and what do those places have in common? While browsing a large collection of traditional Danish folktales, the folklorist Timothy Tangherlini and his colleague Peter Broadwell, both at the University of California, Los Angeles, decided to find out. Armed with a geographical index and some 30,000 stories, they developed WitchHunter, […]
From the announcement: While the adage goes that nothing ever disappears from the internet, anyone who created a Geocities site, or used their old university servers (or forgot to pay to renew domain registration) knows that more often than we’re led to believe, stuff goes away and we can’t find it anymore. The Wayback Machine has […]
Stanford University is recruiting a Repository Specialist (Data Operations). From the ad: The Repository Specialist (Data Operations) supports the current and evolving operations of the Stanford Digital Repository. The role is focused on: managing projects to accession digital content from a wide variety of sources, including publishers, researchers and aggregators, into the repository for long […]
The College of Charleston is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian. From the ad: The Digital Projects Librarian serves as Project Coordinator to both the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL) and the Lowcountry Digital History Initiative (LDHI), striving to expand these projects and promote the history of the region. They will work with librarians, faculty members, and […]
Los Alamos National Laboratory is recruiting a Digital Information Technologist. From the ad: The Research Library seeks an experienced Digital Information Technologist. The main responsibility of the position will be the design, development, usability, implementation and management of digital library services with an initial focus on the Research Library’s institutional repository. The Digital Information Technologist […]
From the CFP: How are metadata creators developing methods to encourage the creation of metadata that represents diverse points of view? How does using sources of authority control such as LCSH contribute to misrepresentation of cultural heritage materials? Are our digital libraries equitable? This virtual program provides a venue for sharing ideas to promote cultural […]
From the CFP: Proposals are now being accepted for presentations at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute Colloquium, to be held in June 2017 at the University of Victoria. Open to all, the DHSI Colloquium offers an opportunity to present research and projects within an engaging, collegial atmosphere. Submissions are peer-reviewed, with participants subsequently invited to […]
Living in the San Francisco Bay Area, one quickly develops an allergy to any claim of a “revolution” in a particular field. But it is now abundantly clear to librarians, archivists, computer scientists, and many social scientists that we are in a transformational age. Terabytes of textual and video data are being created or scanned […]
From “Across the Great Divide: Findings and Possibilities for Action from the 2016 Summit Meeting of Academic Libraries and University Presses with Administrative Relationships”: Partnerships and collaborations have become standard responses to the multiple challenges that both higher education and scholarly publishing face. Organizing the work of the academy, either on one campus or across […]
