Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Associate @ Duke’s Wired Lab for Historical Visualization

The Wired! Lab for Digital Historical Visualization at Duke University seek applicants for a postdoctoral (or equivalent) fellowship focusing on scholarship and pedagogy in the visualization of historical material culture and the built environment using new tools, techniques, and methods of digital and spatial research. Applicants’ own research should involve the sophisticated use of one […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Bamboo DiRT seeks curatorial/steering committee

Project Bamboo is seeking applications for a curatorial and steering committee for Bamboo DiRT, a directory of tools and collections to support digital research. The responsibilities of this committee will include: 1) Adding resources to Bamboo DiRT based on up-to-date knowledge of digital research tools 2) Expanding existing resource entries with additional information, reviews, etc. […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Programs Archivist at University of Wyoming’s American Heritage Center

The Digital Programs Archivist will continue to evolve the AHC’s electronic records program by developing, implementing, and executing processes enabling effective acquisition, appraisal, ingest, preservation, and management of born-digital archival collections. This position works closely with a variety of stakeholders, including Libraries, IT, donors, and archivists in other AHC departments (including University Archives). The Digital […]

News, Resources

Resource: Open Annotation Draft Data Model

The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology which conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for […]

News, Resources

Resource: VIAF Dataset

VIAF (Virtual International Autority File) is an OCLC service — built in cooperation with national libraries and other partners — that virtually combines multiple LAM (Library Archives Museum) name authority files into a single name authority service.

News, Resources

Resource: Geodia

GeoDia (jee-oh-DEE-uh, short for “geodiachronicity”) is intended to provide a simple, intuitive way for people to visualize the temporal, geographic, and material aspects of ancient Mediterranean civilizations.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Hacking Our Cultural Heritage Datasets

April 28 and 29 was Transparency Camp 12 (TCamp), an unconference to gather journalists, technologists, activists, and others to work on ways to promote and work with openness in government. The 30th was a special hack day on the Voter Information Project. Turns out, I was over my head in that context and couldn’t really […]