The Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre (DCU) is organizing this summer school on the Digital curation of archaeological knowledge in collaboration with the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto and the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business. The school will be held in Athens, Greece, 12 to 17 June 2016. Read full […]
Mount Holyoke College is recruiting a Metadata Librarian. From the ad: Reporting to the Associate Director of Discovery & Access (DnA), and positioned within the Digital Assets & Preservation Services (DAPS) department, this position supports the management and administration of metadata related to the discovery, access, and stewardship of library digital collections, primarily related to […]
The Institute of Historical Research (University of London) is seeking a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer to lead its Digital History department. From the ad: The successful candidate will lead a team of professional staff, taking an academic lead on digital history projects and initiatives, and manage the financial, HR and administrative affairs of the team. The […]
The expansion and consolidation of the field of Digital Humanities (DH) has brought with it a previously unseen internationalization of inquiry interests, (academic) cultural specificities and practices, and, crucially, languages. This level of diversity has resulted in a sense of awareness of the truly global impact that the digital turn has had in the last […]
The New York Times is recruiting a Interactive News Developer. From the ad: The Interactive News desk at The New York Times is looking for creative, interdisciplinary thinkers with strong technical backgrounds. Interactive News is the special digital projects team embedded within the newsroom of The New York Times. You’ll be working with editors, reporters, photographers, […]
In the academic libraries’ efforts to support digital humanities and social science, GIS service plays an important role. However, there is no general service model existing about how libraries can develop GIS services to best engage with digital humanities and social science. In this study, we adopted the action research method to develop and improve […]
During my three years of teaching in England, it’s become apparent that students in my American history classes spend a lot of time worrying about access to primary sources. As an undergraduate myself, I knew that upper-level assessment turns on the ability to find and analyze primary sources—that stipulation is no different in this country. […]
The University of Colorado Boulder is recruiting a Digital Scholarship Librarian. From the ad: The University of Colorado Boulder Libraries invites applications from collaborative and innovative candidates for the position of Digital Scholarship Librarian, a tenure-stream faculty position in the University Libraries. Faculty and graduate students in departments and programs across the CU-Boulder campus have […]
We are very happy to publish the report Digital humanities enhanced. Challenges and prospects of Ancient Studies. A retrospect on the DH-conference in November 2015 in Leipzig written by Julia Jushaninowa about DHEgypt2015 (Altertumswissenschaften in a Digital Age: Egyptology, Papyrology and Beyond). Access the report here.
“Classical Philology goes digital” will take place at the University of Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017. Digital technologies continue to change our daily lives, including the way scholars work. As a result, the Classics are currently also subject to constant change. Having established itself as an important field in the scientific landscape, Digital Humanities (DH) research provides a number of new possibilities to scholars […]
