Job Announcements, News

Job: Head of Digital Preservation at New York Public Library

From the post: The Head of Digital Preservation will lead efforts to create a long-term digital preservation strategy, establishing the policies and procedures that address the preservation of the digital assets the Library collects and generates. For over a decade, the Library has made significant investments in digitizing distinctive collections and building online systems to […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Information at Pennsylvania State University

From the announcement: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries invites nominations and applications for the position of Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Information (CHI), a new research center jointly managed and run by the Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts (CLA). This is a twelve-month, tenure-track, library faculty position based at the […]

News, Resources

Resource: Karma – A Data Integration Tool

From the post: Karma is a web based tool that run both the server and browser right on your own machine so we had computers with the tool installed to play with. Karma is an open source tool that makes it easy to convert data from a variety of formats into Linked Data. Users load […]

News, Resources

Resource: Youtube Data for Research

From the post: For research purposes, if you wanted all video content produced by The White House, video content that matches the search query ‘Dragons’, a single video, or perhaps a custom playlist of videos and perhaps even associated text transcripts, then Youtube-DL is a game changer, knowledge of which may possibly make you start spinning […]

News, Reports

Report: National Academies Study on Digital Curation Workforce Issues

From the press release: There is an urgent need for policies, technologies, and expertise in digital curation, said the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report. It recommends that the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy lead policy development in digital curation and prioritize strategic resource investments for the field. Research […]

Editors' Choice

Editor’s Choice: Digital Public History — Bringing the Public Back In

“Digital historical culture” is part of the wider “digital culture” permeating our society through the Internet. The sociological concept of digital culture was developed by Manuel Castells[2] and Willard McCarty[3]. In Italy, Tito Orlandi theorized the emergence of a new Koine based on his further development of scientific and methodological concepts of humanities computing as […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Initiatives Librarian at Salem State University

From the posting: The digital initiatives librarian will provide leadership and vision in planning, implementing, managing and growing digital initiatives that support the mission of the library and the university. The digital initiatives librarian will provide specialized reference services, deliver library instruction sessions, create instructional materials, and develop the library’s collections. The incumbent will participate in […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: 2015-2016 Sherman Graduate Fellows

From the posting: (Note eligibility restrictions) The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Centre for Digital Scholarship is soliciting applications for a 2015-2016 graduate fellowship in digital scholarship. As digital scholarship (DS) becomes more prominent in academic research, the Sherman Centre’s role is to support members of the McMaster community as they experiment and integrate DS tools […]