Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Boston College

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Librarian will employ both experience with History research methods and technical expertise to advance the integration of library liaison responsibilities and digital humanities to the History Department. We are seeking a creative librarian familiar with History collections and instruction who is motivated to investigate new tools and collaborate with faculty, students, and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: International Digital Humanities Symposium (Växjö, Sweden) | EADH – The European Association for Digital Humanities

From the CFP: This International Digital Humanities Symposium will take place in Växjö, Sweden, 7-8 November. The symposium invites and challenges Nordic and European researchers and practitioners in related disciplines to Digital Humanities (DH) to present, discuss and demonstrate different possibilities, current efforts and upcoming trends in this emergent field. Source: CfP: International Digital Humanities […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Metadata Analytics, Visualization, and Optimization

This paper presents the concepts of metadata assessment and “quantification”, provides a technical outline of data pre-processing, and proposes some visualization techniques that can help us understand metadata characteristics in a given context. Additionally, the closing sections introduce the concept of metadata optimization and explore the use of machine learning techniques to optimize metadata in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship & Repository Analyst

From the posting: Under the direction of the Head of Digital Scholarship and Data Curation, the Digital Scholarship & Repository Analyst (Analyst) provides technical expertise to support the development of innovative digital scholarship and data curation programs at the UConn Library. Source: Professional Employment Opportunities

Reports

Report: NLM Workshop: Images and Texts in Medical History

From the report: Seventy-five participants and observers gathered at the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) in April 2016 to explore innovative methods and data sources useful for analyzing large quantities of images and texts in the field of medical history. … Workshop participants exchanged ideas on a variety of related topics, including current best practices in […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Geographical Text Analysis: A new approach to understanding nineteenth-century mortality

This paper uses a combination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and corpus linguistic analysis to extract and analyse disease related keywords from the Registrar-General’s Decennial Supplements. Combined with known mortality figures, this provides, for the first time, a spatial picture of the relationship between the Registrar-General’s discussion of disease and deaths in England and Wales […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Projects Librarian at University of Alabama

From the posting: Reporting to the Head of Web Services, this position is primarily responsible for development, implementation, and project management of technology projects in a collaborative environment, as well as supporting the development and management of the UA Libraries various web interfaces. This position will also act as primary administrator for LibApps and similar […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Preservation Specialist at University of Michigan

From the posting: The Digital Preservation Specialist supports the development and implementation of several new digital preservation services to strengthen and expand our stewardship commitment to a range of content, including born-digital collections, licensed content, research data, and electronic publications. This is a two-year term appointment seeking a librarian or archivist committed to digital preservation. […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Spanish Language Editor at the Programming Historian

From the posting: Building on our commitment to diversity and access, The Programming Historian is seeking a new team member to help us bring the project to 400-million Spanish speakers worldwide. We envisage this to include both translation of existing resources, and the cultivating of a Spanish-language community of users and contributors. There is significant […]