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Job: Associate Dean for Digital Scholarship and Technology Services, FSU (Florida State University in Tallahassee, FL)
The FSU Libraries seek an innovative, experienced information professional to work with a variety of constituencies at a major research university to (1) provide high-quality digital information services, (2) develop a robust institutional repository and other tools that support digital scholarship, (3) encourage innovation in digital scholarship, (4) provide leadership on scholarly communication issues through broad-based solutions that work […]
CFP: The History and Future of Data Visualization (ASECS 2013)
I’m chairing a panel at ASECS 2013– that’s the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies to you! The official call is posted below. Please contact me if you have any questions, or to submit a proposal. American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) April 4-7, 2013 Cleveland, OH CFP: “The History and Future of Data Visualization” (Digital Humanities Caucus) […]
Conference: THATCamp Theory approaches
So… I know that if you went by the activity on this site, all summer long it looked like THATCamp Theory was going to be, er, purely theoretical. But secretly a bunch of us have been THATCamping like the wind, as it were. THATCamp Theory will be held October 13-14, 2012 in Murray Hall at […]
Resource: Using Neatline with Historical Maps: Part 2
This is part 2 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in Geoserver and Neatline. Check out part 1, which covers rectification in ArcMap. In the first part of this series, we brought a static image into ArcMap and converted it onto a georeferenced .tif file. In this article, […]
Job: Senior Developer for Digital Initiatives at Western Washington University Libraries
The Western Washington University Libraries seeks a Senior Developer for Digital Initiatives to lead the development, implementation and maintenance of applications which support digital initiatives. The successful candidate in this new key position will work with content specialists to test, evaluate, and develop web tools and applications.
Conference: Digital Humanities Forum, September 20-22
The preliminary schedule of speakers and workshops at the KU Digital Humanities Forum, September 20-22, is now online. The event is free and open to the public; however, space is limited, especially for the Workshops and THATCamp. The Forum consists of three separate but related programs held over three days: * Day One (Thursday, September […]
Editors’ Choice: Digital Preservation Pioneer: Anne R. Kenney
“Technology has had most of the attention in digital preservation but it is the least of our concerns,” said Anne R. Kenney. That’s a bold declaration. But Kenney has earned the right to make it, based on her 25 years at Cornell University Library, conducting ground-breaking digital research, creating award-winning training resources and fostering national and […]
Editors’ Choice: More Product, Less Process for Born-Digital Collections: Reflections on CurateCamp Processing
The following is a guest post from Meg Phillips, Electronic Records Lifecycle Coordinator for the National Archives and Records Administration. “What’s the bare minimum I can responsibly do with my electronic stuff?” was one of the central questions on the table at CurateCamp Processing. The unconference, focused onProcessing Data / Processing Collections, was a great way for a group […]
CFP: Cultural, Textual, and Material Heritage in the Digital Age: Projects and Practices
The twentieth International Medieval Congress, Leeds, 1-4 July 2013 The rise of the Digital Humanities as an international, cross-disciplinary approach to humanistic scholarship presents exciting new challenges and opportunities. Perhaps one of the most exciting of these is the convergence of interest among textual editors, art historians, archaeologists, museum and library curatorial staff, government agencies, […]