The New York Public Library seeks an extremely organized, detail-oriented person to serve as the Library’s Digital Curatorial Assistant. The successful candidate will work closely with the Library’s curators, permissions office, attorneys, and collections strategy department to: (i) assist the Library in its efforts to make its myriad collections more broadly available to researchers and […]
This Fellowship is for recent PhD candidates in any field of Japanese studies, with extensive expertise in the digital humanities or qualitative digital data management in the social sciences. The fellow will be expected to devote half-time to his/her own research, and half-time to the management of the Digital Archive of Japan’s 2011 disasters.
As input into the development, design, and improvement of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), recipients of Google’s Digital Humanities Grants were interviewed to identify issues encountered during their projects. This project was guided by the following goals: – Increase empirical understanding of how to identify materials for use by scholars. – Increase empirical understanding of […]
The Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at the University of British Columbia’s Okanagan campus invites applications for a tenure-track position in the interdisciplinary field of Digital Humanities. The appointment will be at the level of Assistant Professor and will begin on July 1, 2012.
Race and the Digital Humanities will explore how race and ethnicity are important structural categories of analysis in the digital humanities. How do race and ethnicity factor into questions of access within the digital humanities? How are digital humanities tools calibrated to take into account the effects of race and ethnicity? How is race configured in different […]
A short video from Europeana on what linked open data is and why it is a good thing both for users and content providers.
The kit is aimed at libraries, archives and other cultural intuitions staff and gives basic guidance on how to organize an event. It includes some tips for organizing an event, as well as free handouts, videos and web resources that staff can use. Also provided is a list of additional resources, including some format-specific advice.
This is a key role in the Department of New Media, which is undertaking an exciting and extensive programme of work including the implementation of a museum-wide digital strategy, the progression of the new IWM website and leading on the creation and delivery of multimedia in the galleries together with online, mobile and other strategic […]
Yesterday I live-tweeted the Digital Publishing Forum “Measuring the Reader” at University College London. I storified my tweets and added a brief introduction. I really enjoyed it. The next one is on 21 March and will be “concerned with the huge changes in reference publishing over the last decade and how it has gone digital in a spectacular way, […]
The service is ultra simple in purpose and function. It provides: Information on licenses for open data, open content, and open-source software in machine readable form (JSON) A simple web API that allows you retrieve this information over the web — including using javascript in a browser via JSONP
