Job: Project Digital Asset Manager, NMWA
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
Author: Colleen Nugent
Editors’ Choice: The New Wave of Review
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 […]
Editors’ Choice: New Forms of History: Critiquing Data and Its Representations
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 […]
Editors’ Choice: The Never-ending Night of Wikipedia’s Notable Woman Problem
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 […]
Job: Data Visualization Specialist at Georgia Institute of Technology
The Georgia Institute of Technology is recruiting a Data Visualization Specialist. From the ad: The Georgia Tech Library is looking for a Data Visualization specialist to join our team! This individual should be knowledgeable, creative, and resourceful as they will have the exciting opportunity to take the lead role in defining, developing, implementing and managing […]
Resource: Expose, A Simple Static Site Generator for Photoessays
Expose is a Bash script that turns those images and videos into a photoessay similar to jack.ventures or jack.works (my personal blogs). Access resource here.
Announcement: Online Graduate Certificate in Digital Public Humanities
Digital tools and resources are transforming the ways in which we research, interpret, and communicate. Be part of this change by enrolling in the graduate online Digital Public Humanities Certificate created by the Department of History and Art History and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in partnership […]
Job: Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion at Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University is recruiting a Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion. From the ad: The Librarian works closely with special collections and university archives personnel to identify, research, and prioritize materials for ingest into digital collections, which are powered by CONTENTdm. Following best practices, the Librarian devises scanning workflows and metadata schema appropriate to […]
Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian University of Minnesota
From the ad: The Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) provides strategic direction for the University of Minnesota Libraries in developing and sustaining new models of support for digital scholarship, primarily through coordination of the Digital Arts Sciences & Humanities (DASH) initiative. The DSL guides campus scholars on the integration of digital technologies and methodologies in research […]
Editors’ Choice: Liberating History, Reflections on Rights, Rituals and the Colored Conventions Project
During the past three years I’ve had the opportunity of working collaboratively with the Colored Conventions Project (CCP), a dedicated team of scholars, students, and library professionals whose goal has been to unlock the history of the Colored Conventions movement that for decades has been relegated to the pages of long out-of-print texts or buried […]