Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Assets Manager, Missouri History Museum

Digital Assets Manager | Missouri History Museum. The Digital Asset Manager is directly responsible for the evaluation, selection, implementation, and management of a digital asset management system as well as the creation and management of the metadata, policies, and procedures related to digital assets. The ultimate goal of this position is to ensure that all […]

News, Resources

Resource: CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012

CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012. CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012 Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a gigabyte compressed, is available to download as one file. For over a decade, CNN (Cable News Network) has been providing transcripts of shows, events and newscasts from its broadcasts. The archive has been maintained and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Call For Participation: Who We Are: #alt-academy

Who We Are | #alt-academy: Alternative Academic Careers. In preparation for a formal, confidential survey of career preparation in humanities graduate programs, the Scholarly Communication Institute is conducting an informal census of alternative academics. By “alternative academics,” we refer to people with graduate training in the humanities who apply their skills to a wide spectrum of positions beyond […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Digital Humanities Postdoc

In the last few years, I’ve noticed a certain kind of job ad appearing with more and more frequency. I think of it as the “make digital humanities happen” postdoctoral fellowship. Often based in a library, these positions’ descriptions include some combination of “liaison,” “catalyst,” and “hub,” with a heavy dose of coordinator syndrome thrown in. The […]

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Job: Project Manager for project at the Berkman Center

Project Manager for project at the Berkman Center | HASTAC. H2O Project Manager/Technical Lead Position Harvard Law School The Berkman Center for Internet & Society Duties & Responsibilities A joint project of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Harvard Law School library, H2O is an online platform for textbook development and distribution, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Open Agenda-Setting 2012, Association for Computers and the Humanities

Open Agenda-Setting 2012 | Association for Computers and the Humanities. This year, the ACH is working toward more open and transparent agenda-setting as a professional society. We look to you to help us better serve our diverse, international digital humanities community — by generating new ideas for us to explore, and helping to prioritize items that are […]

News, Resources

Resource: Persistent Digital Archives and Library System: Final Project Report to the Library of Congress

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Persistent Digital Archives and Library System: Final Project Report to the Library of Congress, April 19, 2012. The PeDALS project has released Persistent Digital Archives and Library System: Final Project Report to the Library of Congress, April 19, 2012 . Here’s an excerpt: The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) research project was […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Fellow in Modelling and Prototyping, INKE

ETCL: Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. This position is based in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, in partnership with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Victoria, U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Western Ontario, U Guelph, U Alberta, and […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: MLA 2012 Electronic Literature Exhibit: Impact Report

Introduction by Dene Grigar Associate Professor and Director, The Creative Media & Digital Culture Program, Washington State University Vancouver. The Electronic Literature Exhibit at the 2012 Modern Language Association Convention was a watershed moment for both the MLA and for e-literature. Never before in its 129 year history had the organization held an exhibit in […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Women in the Libraries

It’s pretty obvious that one of the many problems in studying history by relying on the print record is that writers of books are disproportionately male. Data can give some structure to this view. Not in the complicated, archival-silences filling way–that’s important, but hard–but just in the most basic sense. How many women were writing […]