From the call for proposals: Hosted by the Bentley Historical Library and University of Michigan Library, this two-day multi-disciplinary conference will provide a forum to explore ideas, tools, and methodologies for creating and managing web archives and better understand the scholarly and research needs of those working in the field. By engaging key stakeholders in a […]
From the announcement: The Director of Services and Operations (DSO) has primary responsibility for the operations and services of the HathiTrust preservation and access repository, overseeing the day-to-day management of HathiTrust’s core services to users and members, defining priorities for teams that manage HathiTrust’s core infrastructure, and driving the development of related policy and standard […]
From the announcement: The History of Art and Visual Culture Department (havc.ucsc.edu), at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professorship in the History of Digital Media. We seek a teacher and scholar with expertise in the history and theory of one or more of the following areas: Internet […]
At the end of May, 2015, it will be exactly five years since the formal launch of UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. Our mission is “is to champion, catalyse, promote, facilitate, undertake, advise and publicise activities in Digital Humanities (with as wide an interpretation of that phrase as possible) throughout the founding Faculties and UCL, […]
In an eloquent and pragmatic blog post about building the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, Melissa Terras stresses the importance of rooting a DH center in local institutional culture, in order to “link people” across the whole spectrum from arts and humanities to computer science and engineering. It’s an impressive achievement that has clearly fostered […]
From the CFP: This interdisciplinary project aims to explore various contexts of the digital arts and entertainment creation, production and reception. Source: The Borders of Digital Art The Digital Arts Project | HASTAC
From the posting: This position provides critical support, coordination and project management abilities that support the faculty development mission of the Center and the work of the Director. The Faculty/Instructional Consultant will aid faculty in innovative teaching through consultations, workshops and observations. The individual will also serve as a liaison with key Center partners, including […]
From the announcement: At its June meeting, the AHA Council approved the “Guidelines for the Professional Evaluation of Digital Scholarship by Historians.” The approval of the guidelines was the culmination of the work of the ad hoc committee appointed in early 2014 by then-president Ken Pomeranz. The committee was charged with developing a set of […]
Insofar as any part of humanities academe can be said to be buoyant right now, the Digital Humanities is it. New avenues of research are opening up, positions are being created rather than eliminated … even the New York Times has taken an interest. And so, as a relatively long-in-the-tooth DigHum developer, it’s not surprising that […]
What is on the five-year horizon for academic and research libraries worldwide? Which trends and technologies will drive change? What are the challenges that we consider as solvable or difficult to overcome, and how can we strategize effective solutions? These questions and similar inquiries regarding technology adoption and transforming teaching and learning steered the collaborative […]
