The Digital Public Library of America was launched in April 2013. Explaining what it actually was, Dan Cohen, the Executive Director, pointed to three key elements: the DPLA was a portal, a platform, and an advocate for open public access to scientific and cultural content. We understand portals – they’re just web gateways or starting points. Similarly, […]
Digital Humanites Now has had a facelift! In honor of DHNow’s fourth anniversary, PressForward graduate research assistant Sasha Hoffman has redesigned our website to improve readability and provide more information about our processes. To highlight scholarship surfaced by DHNow, the five most recent Editors’ Choice selections are now featured first on the home page. The […]
The New Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), consisting of the libraries of The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Frick Collection, seeks an experienced information professional to coordinate a two year grant funded program to expand and improve its program for collecting and archiving web content of specialist art resources. See full ad […]
The University of South Carolina seeks an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities. See job ad here.
The HILT conference is being held at the University of Maryland August 4-8, 2014. Registration is now open. See information here.
Dreaming of What Might Be examines the contentious but significant history of the labour organization known as the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor. The comic book shows how the organization took root in Canada and “encouraged people to ‘dream of what might be’ and take action on the job rather than give […]
Recent research indicates a high recall in Google Scholar searches for systematic reviews. These reports raised high expectations of Google Scholar as a unified and easy to use search interface. However, studies on the coverage of Google Scholar rarely used the search interface in a realistic approach but instead merely checked for the existence of […]
The peer-reviewed, online art history journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide, has funding available for the development of articles that take full advantage of new web technologies either in the research or the publication phase, or both. Read full post here.
The University of Leicester in Leicester, England i seeking a Solutions Developer within their library. See job ad here.
The Library Applications Development Manager is responsible for working with the Dean of University Libraries and other campus leadership to identify, discover, develop, and define new library-specific technology-related projects, applications, and making recommendations regarding the priorities of these projects. View job ad here.
