Where DH grew out of positions of deep and necessary inquiry — especially in that its early advocates had to form communities of practice beyond the pale of traditional academic communities — today that inquiry has eroded into gratuitous and massively-funded career-building projects. View presentation here.
The Obermann Center for Advanced Studies at the University of Iowa welcomes applications for a full-time, twelve-month Postdoctoral Scholar. The two-year residency will begin on August 8, 2016. The position is funded through the generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and is part of a four-year initiative, Digital Bridges for Humanistic Inquiry: A Grinnell […]
As part of the ongoing Early American Manuscripts Project, NYPL has recently digitized a number of exciting collections relating to North America in the eighteenth century. Read full announcement here.
Jason Griffey recently interviewed Jonathan Bailey at the Idea Drop House (South by Southwest Interactive) to discuss the legality of web scraping. View the interview here.
With the generous support of the Arcadia Fund, my colleague Abigail Bordeaux and I worked closely with Gail Truman of Truman Technologies to conduct a five-month environmental scan of web archiving programs, practices, tools and research. The final report is now available from Harvard’s open access repository, DASH. Read full post here & access the report […]
The Department of Education (DoE) is proposing a new rule that would “require all copyrightable intellectual property created with Department grant funds to have an open license.” What does “open license” mean? In this case, it means the functional equivalent of a Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license: “These proposed regulations would allow the public […]
The University of Pennsylvania is recruiting a Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian. From the ad: As part of a collaborative team of librarians within the Digital Scholarship Department, the Scholarly Communications & Data Curation Librarian will explore new models for scholarly communication and digital publishing, participate in ongoing scholarly communication efforts, and take a […]
The RedHD, in collaboration with El Colegio de México and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM) is pleased to announce the 3rd Meeting of Humanistas Digitales to be held from the 12th to the 14th of September 2016 at the Biblioteca Daniel Cosío Villegas, El Colegio de México in Mexico City. This 3rd Meeting aims […]
Schreiner University is recruiting a Digital Projects Librarian. From the ad: This a 10 month, non-tenure-track position available Fall 2016. The successful candidate will assist in coordinating the design, creation, and maintenance of the collections and resources comprising the W.M. Logan Library as well managing a small Special Collections/ University Archives department. Read full ad […]
I’ve made the focus of my talk Digital Humanities projects involving small and unusual data. What constitutes small and unusual will mean different things to different people, so keep in mind that I’ll always be speaking in relative terms. My working definition of small and unusual data will be texts and languages that are typically […]
