The University of Pennsylvania is recruiting a Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian. From the ad: As part of a collaborative team of librarians within the Digital Scholarship Department, the Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian will explore new models for scholarly communication and digital publishing, participate in ongoing scholarly communication efforts, and take a […]
The RedHD, in collaboration with El Colegio de México and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is pleased to announce the 3rd Meeting of Humanistas Digitales to be held from the 12th to the 14th of September 2016 at the Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, El Colegio de México in Mexico City. This 3rd Meeting aims […]
Schreiner University is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian. From the ad: This a 10 month, non-tenure-track position available Fall 2016. The successful candidate will assist in coordinating the design, creation, and maintenance of the collections and resources comprising the W.M. Logan Library as well managing a small Special Collections/ University Archives department. Read full ad […]
I’ve made the focus of my talk Digital Humanities projects involving small and unusual data. What constitutes small and unusual will mean different things to different people, so keep in mind that I’ll always be speaking in relative terms. My working definition of small and unusual data will be texts and languages that are typically […]
Digital humanities, as we all know, is sexy right now. It seems to be everywhere, including the New York Times, the New Republic, and the Atlantic. Mellon’s funding it, the NEH is funding it, ACLS is funding it, we’re telling our grad students to prepare to work in it. Digital humanities initiatives or centers are […]
The University Libraries of Virginia Tech seek two data and informatics specialists. Read the full ad here.
The National Museum of Women in the Arts is Hiring a Project Digital Asset Manager. Read the full ad here: Job: Project Digital Asset Manager
Digital history is riding a review wave…What’s odd is the degree to which supposedly hidebound print journals are the ones propelling this recent wave of review. After all, it’s not as if digital historians need print journals to review each other’s work. Blogging, Twitter, and other online platforms have stood at the heart of the […]
As the historical record becomes increasingly digitized, historians now have new research methodologies and modes of dissemination at their fingertips that have virtually no precedent. Many of these opportunities center on an increasing use of data and its representations in historical analysis, interpretation, and writing…We as historians are going to have only more and complex […]
The challenge, if we wish to write women back into history via Wikipedia, is to figure out how to shift the frame of references so that our stars can shine, since the problem of who precisely is “worthy of commemoration” or in Wikipedia language, who is deemed notable, so often seems to exclude women. Read the […]
