How can you use open data to explore history? NEH invites members of the public to produce creative web-based projects demonstrating the potential for using the data found in the Chronicling America website, available at http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov. Chronicling America is a website providing access to digitized U.S. newspapers and to information about historic newspapers. The National Digital […]
UCLA is recruiting a Data and Technology Services Coordinator. From the ad: The Data and Technology Services Coordinator is responsible for overseeing the development, performance and ongoing evaluation of instructional and other support for biomedical big data, data plan management, and location/submission to data repositories to assist NN/LM PSR Network members. The DTSC also provides […]
MIT is hosting the upcoming LINC 2016 Conference on Digital Inclusion: Transforming Education Through Technology. This three-day event, May 23 – 25, 2016, will bring together thought leaders from around the world to explore the impact of digital learning technologies on education at scale and provide a collective opportunity to envision the future of education. […]
The National Network of Libraries of Medicine is recruiting a Web Applications Developer. From the ad: The Web Applications Developer is responsible for maintaining and enhancing NN/LM’s online presence and reports to the NWSO Executive Director. . . . The position also requires managing the WordPress installation for RML blogs and newsletters and configuring add-ons […]
Is leadership for a digital organization any different than any other kind of leadership? I think so, and that is the topic I chose to address when the National Federation of Advanced Information Systems (NFAIS) named me the 2016 Miles Conrad Memorial Lecturer last month. At this late stage in my career, I have the […]
There was a definite buzz in the room on an otherwise ordinary Friday morning. Faculty, administrators, librarians, and educational technologists had gathered to hear future plans for our university’s classrooms. A communication professor described an assignment in which students reflected on their semester working through issues of race and class by using Comic Life to […]
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media is pleased to announce the launch of A Liberian Journey: History, Memory, and the Making of a Nation <liberianhistory.org>, developed in partnership with the Liberian Center for National Documents and Records Agency (CNDRA), the Indiana University Liberian Collections, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with generous support […]
Papers on the intersection of text and the digital in the Canadian context are invited for a two-day conference celebrating the launch of the Canadian Writing Research Collaboratory (CWRC) at the University of Alberta. Read full CFP here.
Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences at Southern Methodist University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in the digital humanities. Find out more.
From the ad: The University of Cincinnati Libraries seeks a self-motivated, strategic-thinking, innovative, risk-taking, and adaptable leader to fill its newly created senior chief technology position. The Library Chief Technology Officer (LCTO) will join an outstanding leadership team and will play a leadership role in continuing the evolution of the research library at the university. […]
