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Opportunity: PhD in the Production of Literature Graduate Research Fellowships – Digital Humanities, Carleton U.

The Department of English Language and Literature is soliciting applications to Carleton University’s PhD in the Production of Literature.  Selected candidates will be fully funded for up to five years.  Fellowship recipients will have a background in digital humanities research (data visualization, graphics, interface design, and/or textual analysis), and some combination of skills in the areas […]

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Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Dodson Visiting Professor of Information Studies, U. British Columbia

The University of British Columbia holds an international reputation for excellence in advanced research and learning. It is located in Vancouver, Canada, one of the world’s most beautiful and culturally diverse cities. SLAIS, the iSchool at UBC, is pleased to invite applications for the Dodson Visiting Professorship named in honour of Suzanne and Earl Dodson. […]

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Job Announcements, News

Job: Head of Digital Scholarship, Clemson

Clemson University Libraries seeks an innovative and motivated professional to work with a team of vibrant library faculty to envision and implement the libraryąs technology initiatives. Reporting to the Director, Office of Library Technology, the Head of Digital Scholarship will manage scholarly communications and copyright initiatives, lead institutional repository planning and outreach, and oversee digital production and data […]

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Job Announcements, News

Job: Dir. of Digital & Networked Learning Augmentation, Virginia Tech

Reporting to Learning Technologies’ Director of Professional Development and Innovative Initiatives and Executive Director for Networked Innovation, the Director for Digital and Networked Learning Augmentation provides strategic, operational, and web development support for the Center for Innovation in Learning. Responsibilities include intensive, imaginative, pioneering work with learning technologies, especially Web 2.0-and-beyond affordances (e.g. blogs, wikis, […]

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “Dating medieval English charters”

Deeds, or charters, dealing with property rights, provide a continuous documentation which can be used by historians to study the evolution of social, economic and political changes. This study is concerned with charters (written in Latin) dating from the tenth through early fourteenth centuries in England. Of these, at least one million were left undated, […]

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Whose Lexicon? The Impact of Reporters and Editors on the Old Bailey Proceedings

A few weeks ago I was discussing early modern vocabulary with Tim Hitchcock(as one does on a Wednesday evening). If I recall correctly, he felt that new words likely appeared at roughly the same rate as old words disappeared from the language. In essence, we’re not getting a bigger vocabulary, we’re just using an ever-shifting one. […]

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Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Harmonic syntax in corpus studies

I’ve been conversing with several different music scholars lately about methodology in corpus studies. Some of this has taken place on this blog, some on Twitter, and some over email. I’ve been talking about the same thing with a bunch of different people in a bunch of different places, when this is a conversation that […]

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News, Resources

Resource and CFParticipation: Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories Open for Comment from MediaCommons Press

Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well being of born-digital materials transferred from donors to archival repositories. The main body of the report surveys the primary issues and concerns related to born-digital acquisitions and is intended for a broad audience with varying levels of […]

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News, Reports

Report: Digital Forensics and Preservation (PDF)

Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Report is now available: The purpose of this paper is to provide a broad overview of digital forensics, with some pointers to resources and tools that may benefit cultural heritage and, specifically, the curation of personal digital archives.

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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: “Digital Testimonies on War and Trauma” Conference, June 2013, Erasmus University

The conference aims to bring together scholars involved in the creation of oral sources, for both individual research and archival purposes, with the intent to discuss the potential use and impact of digitized collections of narratives related to war and trauma, across disciplinary and national boundaries. Because of the specific context in which the CroMe […]

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