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Author: Colleen Nugent

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Job: Head, Digital Services Unit at Georgetown University

Georgetown University is recruiting a Unit Head for Digital Services. From the ad: The Unit Head, Digital Services coordinates the planning, designing, implementation, maintenance, expansion and communication/outreach of the digital collections/projects, digital services, and institutional repository services, collections and content, including the design, deployment and maintenance of digital services and platforms which includes DigitalGeorgetown and […]

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Announcement: The Launch of RightsStatements.org

In May 2015, the International Rights Statements Working Group released two white papers with our recommendations for establishing standardized rights statements for describing copyright and reuse status of digital cultural heritage materials, and the enabling technical infrastructure for those statements.   After working for nearly a year to implement the recommendations of the white papers, the […]

News, Resources

Resource: “Mapping the Past” Videos Now Available

The recordings of last month’s conference are now up on YouTube.  If you couldn’t make it to the conference, you can now watch the proceedings. Thanks again to everyone who made the event possible, and for all our presenters for allowing us to record and post their talks. Access resource here.

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Editors’ Choice: The Georgian Pingbacks Project

In the wild west of the World Wide Web, if you compose a hilarious joke, provide a simple solution to a complex problem or break a major new story, it is almost certain that your work will be copied. Although intellectual property laws exist, they are inconsistently enforced because of the sheer number of sites […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Digital Humanities Stack

Thinking about the structure of the digital humanities, it is always helpful if we can visualise it to provide some sort of map or overview. Here, I am exploring a way of representing the digital humanities through the common computer science technique of a software “stack“. This is the idea that a set of software […]

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Job: Digital Archivist at University of Nebraska-Lincoln

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is recruiting a Digital Archivist. From the ad: The Digital Archivist will be responsible for implementing the plans and enabling acquisition, description, preservation, and creation of secure discovery and access to both analog-to-digital collections and born-digital collections. Leads exploration, evaluation, and implementation of related standards, methods, tools and systems, developing migrations […]

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Job: Director of Digital Services at University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky is recruiting a Director of Digital Services. From the ad: Responsibilities include: Serves on the SCRC management group that collaboratively administers Research Services and Education, the Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, the Wendell H. Ford Public Policy Research Center, the King Library Press, Digital Services, the University Archives and […]

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Announcement: CA, Journal of Cultural Analytics

I am very pleased to announce the pending launch of CA: Journal of Cultural Analytics, an open-access web-based academic journal that will focus on the computational study of culture. CA’s mission is to use data-driven approaches towards the study of literature, culture and history. Read full post here.

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Editors’ Choice: Digital Projects Roundup

This past year, I’ve taught three digital history/humanities classes at Carleton. HIST3907o, Crafting Digital History, HIST5702w Digital History Methods as Public History Performance, and DIGH5000 Introduction to Digital Humanities. A fourth course was the open-access version of HIST3907o, but that is not counted in my tally, unfortunately. Finally, my MA student, Rob Blades, completed his […]