UPDATED APPLICATION DEADLINE The Chapman Center for Rural Studies, in the History Department at Kansas State University, invites applications for a two-year visiting assistant professor position beginning August 2015 to expand the Chapman Center’s engagement with digital humanities in undergraduate research and public history. This position will involve the curation and expansion of existing digital […]
Northeastern University is looking for a Data Analytics and Visualization Specialist who will help mobilize and design Library services supporting statistics and information visualization activities across the University. Source: Data Analytics / Visualization Specialist
During the “Open Knowledge: Potentials of Digital Publishing in the Academic World” conference, the Global Young Faculty III working group spoke with Kathleen Fitzpatrick (MLA/NY University) on April 27, 2015 about the future of digital scholarly publication, peer review, and the Media Commons platform. Open Knowledge: An Interview with Prof. Dr. Kathleen Fitzpatrick.
This fall we had the opportunity to launch DH Bridge, an open curriculum and workshop framework for teaching computational thinking in the context of the humanities, funded by an ACH microgrant. Borrowing liberally from Rails Bridge and Rails Girls, we set out to adapt the model of a distributed pedagogy to the needs of humanities […]
Pathfinders is a multimedia, open source Scalar book that documents the experience of early digital literature, specifically pre-web hypertext fiction and poetry, from 1986-1995. Written by Dene Grigar, associate professor and director of the Creative Media and Digital Culture Program at Washington State University Vancouver, and Stuart Moulthrop, professor of English at the University of […]
If you follow me on Twitter, you may have seen that the task I set out for myself this week was to devise a way to describe web archives using the tools available to me: Archivists’ Toolkit, Archive-It, DACS and EAD. My goals were both practical and philosophical: to create useful description, but also to […]
A digital humanities center is nothing if not a site of constant motion: staff, directors, fellows, projects, partners, tools, technologies, resources, and (innumerable) best practices all change over time, sometimes in quite unpredictable ways. As small, partly or wholly soft-funded units whose missions involve research, or teaching, or anchoring a local interest community, digital humanities […]
The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL) constitutes a leading scientific forum on digital libraries that brings together researchers, developers, content providers and users in the field of digital libraries. TPDL 2015, the 19th edition of the conference, is organized by Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center and will be held in Poznań, […]
From the posting: The Digital Projects Librarian will manage digitization projects for the Libraries, upload items into the digital preservation system (currently Rosetta by Ex Libris), manage workflows and conduct quality checks, and prepare items for retrieval and display via the Libraries’ discovery layer (Primo by Ex Libris). The incumbent will also collaborate with library staff to […]
.entry-header From the announcement: Digital Humanities and Classics Research Seminar Wednesday June 24th, 18:00 Room K3.11, Strand Campus, King’s College London, WC2R 2LS Professor Gregory Crane Universität Leipzig and Tufts University Perseus, Open Philology and Greco-Roman studies for the 21st century Find out more.
