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Six Month Review of Digital Humanities Now

It has been six months since Digital Humanities Now relaunched in version 2.0 through the support of the PressForward Project, funded by the Sloan Foundation. The first version, run between 2009 and 2010, was an automated survey of Twitter. Version 1.5 was a one-man operation by Dan Cohen to vet the material using traditional methods of […]

Job Announcements, News

Postdoc: Postdoctoral Research Associate East Asian Digital Humanities

Summary: Applications are invited for a postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of History at King’s College London, to participate in the ERC-funded project ‘China and the Historical Sociology of Empire’. The postholder will have a background in the digital humanities and will be working under the supervision of Dr Hilde De Weerdt (Principal Investigator), […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director of Digital Initiatives and Technology Strategy at Pepperdine University Libraries

Reporting to the Dean of Libraries, this senior administrative position is responsible for all activities related to digital library infrastructure development and content delivery, including the design and deployment and maintenance of digital repository and publishing platforms and related tool sets, representations of digital content, digital conversion, interoperability of digital platforms, archiving of datasets, and […]

News, Resources

Resource: University of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-source textbooks

Minnesota launched an online catalog of open-source books last month and will pay its professors $500 each time they post an evaluation of one of those books. (Faculty members elsewhere are welcome to post their own reviews, but they won’t be compensated.) Minnesota professors who have already adopted open-source texts will also receive $500, with […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Big Data and Uncertainty in the Humanities

This conference seeks to address the opportunities and challenges humanistic scholars face with the ubiquity and exponential growth of new web-based data sources (e.g. electronic texts, social media, and audiovisual materials) and digital methods (e.g. information visualization, text markup, crowdsourcing metadata).

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Job: Head, University Archives and Co-Director, University Digital Conservancy at University of Minnesota Libraries

The UDC serves as the institutional digital repository and as a repository for key subject collections. Key responsibilities of the position include engaging with faculty and graduate students as partners in integrating special collections and archival research and methods into the curriculum; actively seeking administrative, college and departmental, and faculty records; developing policies and tools […]