Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst. Prof. 19th-Century British and Anglophone/Digital Humanities at Washington State Univ.

Assistant Professor of English with specialty in 19th-century British and Anglophone literatures with additional specialization in digital humanities, tenure track, beginning August 2012.  Duties and responsibilities include teaching courses in literary studies and in the Digital Technology and Culture undergraduate degree program, as well as graduate courses in nineteenth-century Anglophone literatures and digital humanities (2-2 teaching load).

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Job: Digital Library Metadata Specialist, Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library is seeking to appoint a suitably qualified candidate with an interest and relevant experience in digital libraries or digital humanities to work within its digital library team from early 2012. The Foundations Project is a strategic initiative of the Library, which aims to establish a state-of-the-art infrastructure for the production, preservation and online delivery of digitised content from its world-class collections. The first iteration of the digital library is online at http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/.

News, Resources

Resource: NEW BOOK: Evaluating & Measuring the Value, Use and Impact of Digital Collections

This book brings together a group of international experts to consider the following key issues:
• What is the role of digital resources in the research life cycle?
• Do the arts and humanities face a ‘data deluge’?
• How are digital collections to be sustained over the long term?
• How is use and impact to be assessed?
• What is the role of digital collections in the ‘digital economy’?
• How is public engagement with digital cultural heritage materials to be assessed and supported?

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Job: Assistant Professor, Digital Design & Communication – UMass Amherst

The Architecture + Design Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks an individual with expertise in Design and Digital Media. The position is Assistant Professor, tenure-track, beginning September 2012. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates must hold an accredited degree in architecture; and a terminal professional or academic degree in architecture or allied field. An advanced degree in one of the humanities is preferred. Candidates must also demonstrate significant professional or academic experience in digital design and interdisciplinary design practice or research.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Genre Similarities

When data exploration produces Christmas-themed charts, that’s a sign it’s time to post again. So here’s a chart and a problem.

First, the problem. One of the things I like about the posts I did on author age and vocabulary change in the spring is that they have two nice dimensions we can watch changes happening in. This captures the fact that language as a whole doesn’t just up and change–things happen among particular groups of people, and the change that results has shape not just in time (it grows, it shrinks) but across those other dimensions as well.