Job: Web Developer, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania University Museum is seeking a gordion database and web developer. See full posting here.
Author: Colleen Nugent
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Resource: The PressForward Plugin
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media announces the release of its newest digital tool, the PressFoward Plugin, a tool for aggregating, curating and publishing content from the web. See full announcement here: Announcing the PressForward Plugin!
Editor’s Choice: A Decade in Digital Humanities
This is the crux of what I plan to say—or hope to say—at my professorial inaugural lecture at UCL on the 27th May 2014…I decided to call my inaugural lecture “A Decade in Digital Humanities” for three reasons. 1. The term Digital Humanities has been commonly used to describe the application of computational methods in […]
Resource: Open WiFi Is Not a CopyCrime: EFF’s Primer on Open WiFi and Copyright
At EFF, we are big fans of open wireless. But we also know that operators of open networks sometimes worry that they could be legally responsible if people use their networks to engage in copyright infringement. We’ve put together a short white paper that generally explains the scope and limits of operator liability for the […]
Job: Research Associate/Senior Research Associate in Spatial Humanities at Lancaster University
We wish to appoint a Research Associate with expertise in nineteenth century demography, social history or historical geography for an exciting post in a major research team. You will work closely with Prof Ian Gregory and an inter-disciplinary group of researchers at Lancaster University. The project, Spatial Humanities: Text, GIS, Places (www.lancs.ac.uk/spatialhum), funded by the […]
Resource: Metropolitan Museum Initiative Provides Free Access to 400,000 Digital Images
New Web Program Allows Free Image Download for Non-Commercial Use (New York, May 16, 2014)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use—including […]
Job: Information Technology Specialist II – Systems Administrator/Webmaster at CHNM
The George Mason University, Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (chnm.gmu.edu/) within the Department of History and Art History is seeking an innovative, full-time Systems Administrator/Webmaster to maintain and grow the technical infrastructure of the center that includes 23 servers and a complex set of networked connections, storage, databases, software, programming languages, and […]
Editors’ Choice: Counterfactual History and The Conquest of Paradise
While I’m a pretty big fan of strategy games in general, historical strategy games are particularly interesting, especially from a pedagogical standpoint. As I and many of the other Play the Past authors have previously discussed, these games allow us to look at the past through a different lens than we typically get through other […]
Editors’ Choice: Pressforward’s Guide to Curating Scholarship from the Open Web
This Guide is part of a series that reflects on three years of research on sourcing and circulating scholarly communication on the open web. In the coming weeks we will share our discoveries, processes, and code developed through rapid prototyping and iterative design: the PressForward plugin for WordPress; the collaboratively-edited weekly publication Digital Humanities Now; and the experimental overlay Journal of Digital Humanities. We hope […]
Job: Digital Collections Coordinator, East Carolina University
ECU Libraries, East Carolina University, seeks an experienced and innovative individual with excellent organizational skills for the position of Digital Collections Coordinator. See Full Posting Here