Welcome to Assassin’s Creed Week presented by Play the Past, where for a whole week, Play the Past will push content on the most popular historical video game series ever. Part I introduced the Week and asked why Assassin’s Creed mattered, Part II examined slavery and native relations in the series, Part III explored the portrayal of historical women, and Part […]
James Madison University (JMU) Libraries & Educational Technologies (L&ET) seeks a dynamic, creative and service-oriented colleague to provide support to the Special Collections and Digital Collections Departments in enhancing access to archival, digitized and born-digital materials. See Full Posting Here
Seeking an innovative, full-time Emerging Digital Services Librarian with a strong technology and user experience orientation. Responsibilities include: design and maintenance of the Library’s website; creation of digital tutorials, expertise with applicable instructional, social media, and library-specific software, along with reference and instruction. See Full Posting Here
Dreaming of a summer filled with learning, community engagement, and sea lions? Time to stop dreaming and start doing.This is the last week to apply for MuseumCamp 2014, a professional development experience in which diverse people from the arts, community activism, and social services will measure the immeasurable together. If you want to join us in […]
The Digital Humanities Librarian will establish and grow a dynamic, multifaceted program that addresses the growing demand for digital arts and humanities support on campus. See Full Posting Here
Tonight, I am a guest lecturer in a course on Museum Studies. I’ve been asked to help present the basics of the Digital Humanities. Here is my presentation. Feel free to use and transform (Creative Commons License below). See Full Presentation Here
Which brings me to my point: how can the other side of DH, the DH as using digital research methods to explore phenomena in the humanities, benefit from close(r) dialogue with HST? Franco Moretti’s most recent paper – ‘Operationalizing’ – uses the work of another path finding Obi Wan Kenobi of scholarship, Thomas Kuhn, to […]
Place names are a form of shared understanding, and of shared definition. This week has seen some important discussions at the University of Cyprus’s Archaeological Research Unit on the technical and conceptual approaches that our Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus will take; and how it will attempt to express shared understandings of place on the island. […]
This position is for a one year period (March 1, 2014 through February 28, 2015) for expert services in conjunction with FSU’s Islandora implementation and development project. FSU is currently involved in a project with FLVC to implement Islandora as a digital platform for FSU and other SUS libraries. See Full Posting Here
I was recently part of a panel organized by Holly Dugan at George Washington University on the topic of #altac and #postac careers. The storify from the tweets is worth reading through for the insights from my fellow panelists, Alyssa Harad, Evan Rhodes, and Meredith Hindley, and for comments from the audience. The first part […]
