Job Announcements, News

Job: Data Visualization Specialist at Georgia Institute of Technology

The Georgia Institute of Technology is recruiting a Data Visualization Specialist. From the ad: The Georgia Tech Library is looking for a Data Visualization specialist to join our team! This individual should be knowledgeable, creative, and resourceful as they will have the exciting opportunity to take the lead role in defining, developing, implementing and managing […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion at Pepperdine University

Pepperdine University is recruiting a Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion. From the ad: The Librarian works closely with special collections and university archives personnel to identify, research, and prioritize materials for ingest into digital collections, which are powered by CONTENTdm. Following best practices, the Librarian devises scanning workflows and metadata schema appropriate to […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian University of Minnesota

From the ad: The Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) provides strategic direction for the University of Minnesota Libraries in developing and sustaining new models of support for digital scholarship, primarily through coordination of the Digital Arts Sciences & Humanities (DASH) initiative. The DSL guides campus scholars on the integration of digital technologies and methodologies in research […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Liberating History, Reflections on Rights, Rituals and the Colored Conventions Project

During the past three years I’ve had the opportunity of working collaboratively with the Colored Conventions Project (CCP), a dedicated team of scholars, students, and library professionals whose goal has been to unlock the history of the Colored Conventions movement that for decades has been relegated to the pages of long out-of-print texts or buried […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Merits of Incorporating Allahyari’s “Material Speculation” with 3D Printing

Anthropology Ph.D. Candidate Sue Ann McCarty frequently visits the Makerspace to print archaeological artifacts. Over multiple conversations, we’ve discovered that we share a similar passion for 3D modeling and printing in the classroom. Sue Ann recently applied her research to a course she taught at James Madison University, and I asked her to share more […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: That’s Not How Scholarship Works

We are currently seeking submissions for a proposed MLA 17 special session, “That’s Not How Scholarship Works: Exploring the Process of Multimodal Critical Making.” This session will gather an interdisciplinary group of scholars and editors who engage with critical making as scholarship to reveal their process: the post-it notes, sketches, planning, code experiments, and non-linear piecing together […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Archives Unleashed – Web Archive Datathon

This workshop (Washington DC, June 14 – 15), with the generous support of the National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Internet Archive, Rutgers University, and the University of Waterloo, presents an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our web collections, exploring cutting-edge research tools while fostering a broad-based consensus on future directions in web […]

News, Resources

Resource: Unix Pipes for Exploring and Cleaning Data

Do you have a spreadsheet, JSON, or plain text file filled with data that you haven’t come to terms with? If you’re using Mac OSX, you already have a powerful tool at your disposal for exploring and cleaning a text-based data set. By using terminal commands, you can get a feel for an otherwise unwieldy […]