DHNow will return on May 22
Digital Humanities Now will be offline next week, May 14-18, to close out the semester. Look for our return on May 22 with a new twice-weekly publication schedule for the summer.
Author: Colleen Nugent
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Postdoc: Postdoctoral Research Associate East Asian Digital Humanities
Summary: Applications are invited for a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History at King’s College London, to participate in the ERC-funded project ‘China and the Historical Sociology of Empire’. The postholder will have a background in the digital humanities and will be working under the supervision of Dr Hilde De Weerdt (Principal Investigator), […]
Job: Director of Digital Initiatives and Technology Strategy at Pepperdine University Libraries
Reporting to the Dean of Libraries, this senior administrative position is responsible for all activities related to digital library infrastructure development and content delivery, including the design and deployment and maintenance of digital repository and publishing platforms and related tool sets, representations of digital content, digital conversion, interoperability of digital platforms, archiving of datasets, and […]
Resource: University of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-source textbooks
Minnesota launched an online catalog of open-source books last month and will pay its professors $500 each time they post an evaluation of one of those books. (Faculty members elsewhere are welcome to post their own reviews, but they won’t be compensated.) Minnesota professors who have already adopted open-source texts will also receive $500, with […]
CFP: Big Data and Uncertainty in the Humanities
This conference seeks to address the opportunities and challenges humanistic scholars face with the ubiquity and exponential growth of new web-based data sources (e.g. electronic texts, social media, and audiovisual materials) and digital methods (e.g. information visualization, text markup, crowdsourcing metadata).
Job: Head, University Archives and Co-Director, University Digital Conservancy at University of Minnesota Libraries
The UDC serves as the institutional digital repository and as a repository for key subject collections. Key responsibilities of the position include engaging with faculty and graduate students as partners in integrating special collections and archival research and methods into the curriculum; actively seeking administrative, college and departmental, and faculty records; developing policies and tools […]
Editors’ Choice: Alexandria is a Port: The Digital Library in Physical Space
There is no Frigate like a book To take us lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of Prancing Poetry This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll How frugal is the Chariot That bears a human Soul. –Emily Dickinson, www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19730 Alexandria is a port, the busiest seaport in Egypt. Of course […]
Editors’ Choice: Podcast, Johanna Drucker: “Designing Digital Humanities”
What is the role of design in modeling digital humanities? Can we imagine new forms of argument and platforms that support interpretative work? So much of the computationally driven environment of digital work has been created by design/engineers that humanistic values and methods have not found their place in the tools and formats that provide […]
Job: Digitisation Project Manager at Tate
Digitisation Project Manager vacancy at Tate : Digitisation and Content Programme. Digitisation Project Manager vacancy at Tate Tate is currently looking to recruit a Project Manager to undertake a substantial digitisation project within its archive.
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 […]