Central Michigan University is recruiting an Archivist Manager/University Digital Records. From the ad: Develop and implement the operation of an ongoing electronic records program for University and University-related born digital records. Will work in cooperation with relevant CMU offices and officials and, insofar as possible, will work within the framework of existing institutional information technology […]
Registration for the Open Access Symposium 2016, held in Denton in May 19-20, closes on Saturday. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers from around the world. Do also consider attending the Library Publishing Forum 2016, an international event held this year in Denton just before the OA Symposium. Registration for that event is separate. Note there’s also an […]
Daniel Allington, Sarah Brouillette, and David Golumbia’s recent article, “The LA Neoliberal Tools (and Archives): A Political History of Digital Humanities,” argues that digital humanities “most significant contribution to academic politics may lie in its (perhaps unintentional) facilitation of the neoliberal takeover of the university.” Below is a round-up of responses. In Defense of DH […]
So-called “movie barcodes” are both elegant to look at and useful ways to explore how color schemes and designs shift throughout a film. Image montages can also demonstrate how a visual corpus changes over time, and plotting an image set into a graph based on values like hue and saturation could provide a stylistic fingerprint for […]
Brock University is recruiting an Assistant Professor of European and digital history. From the ad: The Department of History at Brock University invites applications for a three-year position as Assistant Professor (Limited Term) working in European and digital history. National/topical fields are open. The appointment begins July 1, 2016. Read full ad here.
This workshop, which will take place on May 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Rutgers-Camden, will cover the fundamentals of UX, why it matters, and ways to convince others in your organization to invest in this process. We’ll detail a typical UX journey and common methodologies that are useful for museum professionals, from […]
With the support of the Getty Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) of the University of Maryland, College Park, present Art History in Digital Dimensions, a three-day symposium in Washington, D.C. and College Park. The symposium aims […]
The Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton is recruiting a Graphic Designer for the Princeton & Slavery Project. From the ad: The Princeton and Slavery digital archive and research environment will invite users to explore the impact and legacy of slavery at Princeton University. Develop a mobile-friendly custom theme for an existing Omeka database, as well […]
In October of 2015, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Museum Studies Program convened a group of cultural heritage professionals to discuss digital curation, its integration into the art museum community, and the role the JHU Program in Digital Curation might play in this effort. Attendees included representatives from museums, libraries, archives, foundations, and the JHU Museum […]
Are you viewing an interesting digital humanities project, blog post, conference call, or job posting that you would like to nominate to DHNow? If you’ve been an editor-at-large, you can always use the Nominate This bookmarklet tool! (If you haven’t been an editor-at-large, now’s the time. Sign up here.) Why Not Email Nominations? We frequently […]
