Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant/Associate Professor of Digital Humanities

From the announcement: The Department of English at the University of Massachusetts Lowell seeks an enthusiastic and collaborative colleague for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant or Associate Professorship in Digital Humanities. The literary specialty for this position is open, but the ideal candidate will have a variety of DH skills and project experience which may include mapping, […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Archiving the Web — A Case Study from the University of Victoria

The University of Victoria Libraries started archiving websites in 2013, and it quickly became apparent that many scholarly websites being produced by faculty, especially in the digital humanities, were going to prove very challenging to effectively capture and play back. This article will provide an overview of web archiving and explore the considerable legal and […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: MassMine Training Session, Nov. 13, 2014, and Online

From the announcement: Training: November 13, 2014, 12-1pm, in Library West 211, and via Adobe Connect (link to be added) This meet-up will take the form of a hands-on training session for using MassMine. The session will include an introduction to MassMine and how it was created in response to a humanities research question, how […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor in Ethics and Digital Culture

From the announcement: The successful candidate will have a research specialization in the study of ethics and digital culture. This could include areas such as: ethical dimensions of new media, ethics and digital pedagogy, the ways that digital environments affect ethical action, social behavior and social justice using digital tools or in digital environments, ethics […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: On the political economy of the GeoJSON format

This essay is written in response to a colleague who, for the sake of anonymity, I will simply refer to as Dr. X (or perhaps, as @wallacetim dubs him, Professor Glasses). During the first ever #mapTimeLEX—an event inspired by @alyssapwright, and here in Lexington, largely an ode to @lyzidiamond and @mappingmashups—Dr. X graciously posed the […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: London’s Text Mined Hinterlands

This map visualizes the text-mined data produced by the Trading Consequences project. We queried the database to identify all the commodities with a strong relationship to London and then found every other location where the text mining pipeline identified a relationship those commodities at least 10 times in a given year. I will present this […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director of Visualization Services at NCSU

From the posting: The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Director of Visualization Services in the Digital Library Initiatives (DLI) department. Recognizing the power of visualization to ask and answer novel questions, spark new insights, enable greater understanding, and communicate powerful ideas, the NCSU Libraries offers advanced visualization spaces, services, and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: RRCHNM’s 20th Anniversary Conference

RRCHNM’s 20th anniversary is now only one month away. Over 100 people have registered to attend the free, two-day event on November 14 and 15. There is still time to join us – details and the registration form can be found here. More details of the schedule will be released soon. As part of lead-up to the conference, […]