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Job: Digital Scholarship Fellow, Penn State

From the ad: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seek creative, forward-thinking individuals to apply for the fixed-term, non-tenure track, three-year appointment as Digital Scholarship Fellow. This faculty librarian will play a critical role in outreach, training, and service development to strengthen digital scholarship at Penn State. The successful candidate will be conversant with methods, technologies, […]

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Editors’ Choice: The Slave Insurance Market

Recent portrayals of American slavery — from 12 Years a Slave and Django Unchained to Walter Johnson’s River of Dark Dreams and Sven Beckert’s Empire of Cotton — have emphasized the brutal violence on cotton plantations in the years preceding the Civil War. What they miss is that during the same period, slaves that were […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: 17th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries

From the CFP: The ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) is a major international forum focusing on digital libraries and associated technical, practical, and social issues. Participation is sought from all parts of the world and from the full range of disciplines and professions involved in digital library research and practice, including computer science, information science, […]

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CFP: Archives Unleashed 3.0: Web Archive Datathon

From the CFP: This event is a follow-up to the Archives Unleashed datathon series – the first was held in March 2016 in Toronto and the second was held in June 2016 Washington DC. We’re continuing the datathon program in 2017, and are excited to bring this program to the Internet Archive…By bringing together a […]

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CFP: Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy

The International Digital Humanities Training Network / ADHO Training Group is sponsoring a conference, “Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, and International Training” on August 8, 2017. From the CFP: Only recently have the digital humanities begun to take firm root in the humanities curriculum, with institutions around the world now committing significant resources toward […]

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Editors’ Choice: A Visualization of Influence in the History of Philosophy

“I don’t know a lot about philosophy,” says Grant Louis Oliveira, a data analyst and quantitative social sciences researcher with an undergraduate degree in political science. He continues: I’d like to change that and more rigorously explore my ideas, but I find the world of philosophy a bit impenetrable, and I don’t think I’m the only […]