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Job: Tenure-Track Position in Digital Humanities at California State University, Northridge

From the posting: California State University, Northridge seeks candidates for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Digital Humanities skills (e.g. Mapping, Network Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Data literacy, Digital Scholarly editing). Secondary interests may include: Social Media Studies, Popular Cultural Studies, Computational Linguistics, Elementary Education, Russian Studies, Modern China Studies, Sustainability Studies. Source: Tenure-Track […]

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Resource: An Introduction to Unix

From the post: I took programming in high school, but I never took to it. This, I strongly believe, is because it wasn’t taught right—and teaching it right means starting at the beginning, with unix. The reason for this is three-fold: (1) it gives you a deeper sense of how a high-level computer works (which […]

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Resource: DPLA Metadata Analysis: Part 1 – Basic stats on subjects

From the post: One a recent long flight (from Dubai back to Dallas) I spent some time working with the metadata dataset that the Digital Public Library of American’s (DPLA) provides on its site. I was interested in finding out the following pieces of information. What is the average number and standard deviation of subjects-per-record […]

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Job: Digital Scholarship Editor, Brown University

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Editor is a grant-funded position in the Brown University Library designed to extend Brown’s capabilities as a central force in advancing new forms and methods of scholarly communication.  The Digital Scholarship Editor will play an important role in an effort to bring together key technological, organization, and academic policy […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: What is Digital Scholarship? A Typology

At a recent talk at the University of Colorado Boulder I discussed various definitions of digital scholarship and how we might categorize digital scholarship. My forthcoming essay in the second edition of Blackwell’s Companion to Digital Humanities deals with these questions in depth. This chart offers one way to consider a typology for digital scholarship […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: 2014 Getty Trust Report–Digital Humanities

Last year we celebrated the Getty Trust’s accomplishments during its first thirty remarkable years, and again asked ourselves the difficult question: what should the Getty seek to accomplish in the long term, given our legacy of achievements, our unparalleled skills, and our unique resources? We again sought to establish meaningfully high strategic goals for all […]

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Job: Wayback Machine Senior Engineer, The Internet Archive

From the announcement: We are looking for a smart, collaborative and resourceful engineer to help develop the next version of the Wayback Machine. The ideal candidate will possess a desire to work collaboratively with a small internal team and a large, vocal and active user community; demonstrating independence, creativity, initiative and technological savvy, in addition […]

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Report: Mallet past present and future

From the post: There was a conversation on Twitter about the current state of Mallet. My goal for Mallet is that it should do a few things very well. Future development will focus on making the process of using machine learning easier and more informative. Also, be sure to use the current GitHub version. Before discussing […]

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Job: Engagement and Outreach Manager Yale

From the posting: Conceives, produces and delivers communications and outreach efforts to support Digital Humanities projects on campus. Primary responsibility for print and electronic communications about the Yale Digital Humanities Lab, and uses expertise in communications, outreach, public relations, or a similar field to communicate effectively with students, faculty, journalists, and the public at large. […]

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Resouce: Adventures in Converting Subversion to Git

From the resource: While the Scholars’ Lab was founded in 2006, we manage a lot of projects that had their roots in the eText Center in the late 1990s. These projects have lived through the numerous “best practices” of the various eras, many still bearing the marks of those bygone eras (you see a lot of […]