1. The Differences between Digital History and Digital Humanities by Stephen Robertson For the last nine months I’ve spent much of my time exploring digital history. Part of becoming director of RRCHNM involved familiarizing myself with areas of work about which I had only passing knowledge despite almost twenty years of reading, teaching and creating digital history. Moreover, […]
Today, I’m going to provide a brief update on federal initiatives targeted toward making federally funded research articles and data publicly accessible. There have been four primary federal actions in the last 12-18 months addressing public access to federally funded research. The Fair Access to Science and Technology Research Act was introduced in both the […]
Provides oversight for the SCF Libraries digital initiatives. The successful candidate serves the faculty, students, staff of the college and researchers within the college community by developing, implementing, and maintaining new and existing digital delivery and publishing platforms, programs, and services. Responsibilities also include supervision of library staff, student assistants, and volunteers at the Venice […]
The Concept Lab, one of three projects within the Cambridge Centre for Digital Knowledge, is seeking to appoint three full time postdoctoral research associates: two posts in literary and cultural history and theory in the long early modern period (1600-1800) and one in computational humanities and/or corpus linguistics. See Full Posting Here
Hybrid Pedagogy is issuing a call for participation for articles on critical digital pedagogy. Submissions should help to map (or represent) the terrain of the field, while considering the following questions: How can digital technologies and cultures interrogate and/or deconstruct the roles of student and teacher? How does critical pedagogy change the way we see […]
Come Code With Us! The Zotero project is looking to hire a full-time, contract developer to help extend the Zotero ecosystem. At first you will work primarily on a specific new tool. If all goes well, we’d hope and expect that you’d be interested in remaining a full-time paid member of the Zotero team longer […]
Today is an exciting one: we’re pleased to announce that Stamen is offering a summer Fellowship! AND we’re doing it in partnership with longtime friends at Gray Area Foundation for the Arts, along with Obscura Digital and Helios. Don’t have the coding chops yet for a fellowship but want to get started? Fret not, dear […]
Rod Library at the University of Northern Iowa seeks an innovative, self-motivated individual to serve in a newly created tenure-track position as the manager of an institutional repository being implemented at the University in 2014/2015. In addition, the individual will coordinate education and outreach for scholarly communication across campus. Read Full Posting Here
A few weeks ago, I presented to the UNL DH community about a project that I’m beginning while a fellow at the CDRH’s Digital Scholarship Incubator. The project is an effort to utilize digital tools to visualize business and organizational records related to my dissertation on industrialization in small cities. During my talk, I noted […]
What does a critical data studies look like, and why do we care? Seven points for a critical approach to ‘big data.’ There is a need for a critical data studies “The benefits to society will be myriad, as big data becomes part of the solution to pressing global problems like addressing climate change, eradicating […]
