Announcements, News

Announcement: $20 Million in Gifts Furthers Hanlon’s Cluster Initiative | Dartmouth Now

Dartmouth has received gifts totaling $20 million to establish two interdisciplinary faculty groups, called academic clusters, to help elevate the institution as a global leader in the fields of neuroscience and digital humanities and to attract exceptional scholars whose work will benefit individuals and societies around the world. Read full announcement here.

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Digital Methods Initiative, Winter School 2016

The Digital Methods Initiative (DMI), Amsterdam, is holding its annual Winter School on Critical Analytics and the Meanings of Engagement. The format is that of a data sprint, with hands-on work on engagement metrics for political, social and media research, together with a programme of keynote speakers and a Mini-conference, where PhD candidates, motivated scholars […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: The Library as Research Partner

As I typed the title for this post, I couldn’t help but think “Well, yeah. What else would the library be?” Instead of changing the title, however, I want to actually unpack what we mean when we say “research partner,” especially in the context of research data management support. In the most traditional sense, libraries […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Linked Data Caution

I have been seeing an enormous amount of momentum in the library industry toward “linked data”, often in the form of a fairly ambitious collective project to rebuild much of our infrastructure around data formats built on linked data. I think linked data technology is interesting and can be useful. But I have some concerns about how it […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian at DePaul University

From the ad: Reporting to the Coordinator of Reference, Instruction, and Academic Engagement, the Digital Scholarship Librarian will provide leadership for the integration of digital tools, resources and methodologies with traditional resources and approaches to research, teaching and learning. The Digital Scholarship Librarian will collaborate with members of the Library Administration and with Coordinators of […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Poetics of the Algorithm

Poetics of the Algorithm: Narrative, Digitality, and Unidentified Media is an international conference hosted by the University of Liege (Belgium, 16-17-18 June 2016) with a focus on interactive fiction, apps, digital comics, games, e-literature and other emerging, ‘new’ media. The conference will host workshops, roundtable discussions, panels, and presentations of papers. We invite scholars, artists, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: 7th Annual Open Access Symposium at UNT

We are pleased to issue the call for proposals for the 7th annual Open Access Symposium at UNT, the premier annual conference regarding Open Access, attracting speakers and attendees from around the world.  The conference will be held on the main campus of the UNT system in Denton, Texas, just north of Dallas.   This year we invite both […]