P&S Requisition Details – Jobs@UIOWA: Search and Apply for Jobs at The University of Iowa Position Title HEAD, DIGITAL RESEARCH & PUBLISHING, PLB2/PLB3 Advertising Ends on: Extended Until Position is Filled Advertising Started on: Friday, January 25th, 2013 Organization: Library Department: Library Administration & General
Digital Classicist: wip wip2013. The Digital Classicist London seminar series, which provides a forum for research into the ancient world that employs digital research methods, invites submissions for Summer 2013. We warmly welcome contributions from students as well as established researchers and practitioners. Themes could include digital text, semantics and linguistics, imaging and visualization, linked […]
CFP: Interface2013: Creative and Critical Approaches in the Digital Humanities (Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) | laurie n. taylor. Call For Papers: Creative and Critical Approaches in the Digital Humanities Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada May 3-5, 2013 Deadline to apply: February 25, 2013 Click to Download CFP The digital humanities explores how emerging digital forms of scholarly inquiry […]
Omeka 2.0 Drops today – Omeka. The moment that you’ve all been waiting for is here! Well, at least, it’s the moment that we at Omeka HQ have been waiting for, and working towards for many months now. Omeka 2.0 is now available for download! The most important improvement is a completely revamped admin interface, […]
The digital world provides historians with an array of tools and ways to make our time in the archive and our research process more fulfilling, thorough, and generally productive. But the changes we make need to happen from the bottom up–from conception to execution. For example, Trevor Owens, assessing the Ithaka report on historian’s research practices released […]
This is the second in my series of posts on the Old Bailey Online (OBO) corpus. I’ve downloaded all of the trial transcripts from 1674 to 1834 (find out how on the Programming Historian 2), which is about 100,000 trials and 51 million words of text. In the last post I looked at the impact of editors […]
Please join OCLC Research and the University of Pennsylvania Libraries for thoughtful and provocative presentations about how libraries are already getting involved with MOOCs. MOOCs and Libraries: Massive Opportunity or Overwhelming Challenge?.
Today, the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) released its latest report to the President and Congress, Designing a Digital Future: Federally Funded Research and Development in Networking and Information Technology. The report is a Congressionally mandated assessment of the Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program, which coordinates the […]
The internet has already had a major impact on how people find and access information, and now the rising popularity of e-books is helping transformAmericans’ reading habits. In this changing landscape, public libraries are trying to adjust their services to these new realities while still serving the needs of patrons who rely on more traditional resources. […]
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