Much of the hype surrounding MOOCS has faded and as Steve Kolowich shows in a recent Chronicle piece, “Few people would now be willing to argue that massive open online courses are the future of higher education.” As the Babson Survey Research Group (that Kolowich cites) shows, higher ed leaders are less certain that MOOCs […]
I’m trying to tackle a topic that I’ve been mulling over more or less since the Center opened: Why I think every edtech group should have a student support organization like the DKC. There’s a long history of how we ended up where we are with our Center, and there’s a lot of unpacking that […]
From the job announcement: Reporting to the Archivist and working collaboratively with staff across the Symphony, the Digital Asset Coordinator will develop sustainable practices and processes to ensure the availability and integrity of digital assets that chronicle the Symphony’s history, collections, programs, and operations. The successful applicant will demonstrate experience with a variety of technologies […]
From the Announcement: Some of the digital art history summer institutes from last year are returning for 2015! At the moment, there are two announced institutes, both being funded by the Getty Foundation: July 13 — July 24: Building a Digital Portfolio at George Mason University: “Participants will learn from experienced RRCHNM and GMU faculty […]
From the Announcement: The University of Michigan Library is seeking a librarian to be a project manager and specialist in the area of digital preservation services.The successful candidate will work as part of a team of programmers, librarians, and other experts on a major initiative to build a new digital library system architecture. The new […]
From the announcement: PressForward is hiring an Outreach Coordinator to work with us as we develop new publications using the PressForward plugin. The PressForward Outreach Coordinator will identify and recruit key pilot partners and deliver hands-on training using the PressForward plugin. The RRCHNM PressForward team offers pilot partners customized technical and editorial expertise at each stage of […]
From the job announcement: The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Digital Technologies Development Librarian in the Digital Library Initiatives department. Digital Library Initiatives develops and delivers an information environment that significantly advances end-user resource discovery and use of library services. As a member of the Digital Services Development group, the […]
From the announcement: This NEH-funded 2-day workshop workshop is intended for humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals who wish to learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies. Instructors include (in alphabetical order) Jeremy Boggs, Cory Bohon, Dan Brown, Jen Guiliano, Tina Herzberg, James Smith and […]
From the announcement: Stanford University Libraries is seeking a talented web developer to support scholarship in the digital age by delivering on the promises of the digital library. The Visualization Engineer will develop interfaces, tools and software to enable online discovery, viewing and collaborative annotation of digital medieval manuscript materials. He or she will develop […]
The Internet Archive is mostly known for archiving the web, a task the San Francisco-based nonprofit has tirelessly done since 1996, two years before Google was founded. The Wayback Machine now indexes over 435 billion webpages going back nearly 20 years, the largest archive of the web. Earlier this month, the Archive made headlines with the […]
