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Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.

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Job: Program Specialist (Digital Projects Coordinator) at Library of Congress

The Library of Congress is recruiting a Program Specialist (Digital Projects Coordinator). Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The Digital Projects Coordinator coordinates and facilitates activities relating to the Library Services information technology (IT) goals through application development and implementation of projects involving the Library’s integrated library system, other enterprise systems, and web enabled applications.

Job Announcements, News

Jobs: Program Director and Creative Director for new UC Santa Cruz MS in Games and Playable Media

At UC Santa Cruz we’re launching a new professional MS in Games and Playable Media, which will be offered through our Silicon Valley campus and will include working both with our current game faculty and with new personnel hired specifically for the program. We are currently in the selection process for the first position to […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Tate Digital Strategy 2013–15: Digital as a Dimension of Everything

Through the development of a holistic digital proposition there is an opportunity to use the digital to deliver Tate’s mission to promote public understanding and enjoyment of British, modern and contemporary art. To achieve this, digital will need to become a dimension of everything that Tate does. 1. Vision Through embracing digital activity and skills across the […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

JDH Reader Survey Closes Tomorrow, May 3

Our reader survey on the Journal of Digital Humanities closes tomorrow, May 3, at 5pm. If you haven’t already done so, please take a few minutes to tell us what you value most about this publication. Your feedback will help us determine where to focus our attention as we plan for our second year. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/reader-survey/  

News, Resources

Resource: Creating Map Visualizations in <10 lines of Python

One of my goals when I started building Vincent was to streamline the creation of maps as much as possible. There are some excellent Python map libraries out there- see Basemap and Kartograph for more fun with maps. I highly recommend both of those tools, as they are both quite good and very powerful. I wanted something a little simpler, that […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFProposals: 2013 Digital Library Federation Forum

The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, to be held November 3–6, 2013 in Austin, Texas, is seeking “proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.” The DLF is seeking proposals that focus on the themes of digital technology design, management and assessment, data, and collaboration.

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Resource: Roundup of HASTAC 2013 posts

What an amazing conference filled with inventive, kind, humorous and wickedly smart people. About 350 of you showed up and it was so much fun. Because it was such a busy conference and we didn’t all have a chance to see each other’s papers, we’re asking conference participants to post their talks here on HASTAC. […]