From the ad: The Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities (IPRH), http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/ at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is seeking a Project Manager to be responsible for coordinating, managing and supporting the Training in Digital Methods for Humanists (TDMH) pilot program, and other IPRH initiatives as needed. Focus and training in digital humanities methods is…
From the ad: The Department of History in the College of Arts &Sciences at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position specializing in public history, with expertise in digital humanities. The person selected for this position would start August 15, 2018. Area of historical expertise is open, but candidates with specialities in…
From the ad: The Alice Kaplan Humanities Institute invites applications for a two-year post-doctoral fellowship in the Digital Humanities, to run from September 1, 2018 through August 31, 2020. Applications are welcome from scholars who bring to research and teaching the theoretical, methodological, creative, and/or technical practice of digital technologies. We welcome applications from scholars who engage with emerging digital cultures…
From the ad: We are interested in meeting experienced candidates with wide-ranging expertise in web writing, editing, and publishing, as well as experience of social media management and communication strategy development, from within a UK/US historical environment. Importantly, you will have a proven understanding of aspects of British history and its sources, coupled with understanding…
From the ad: The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) seeks a temporary full-time Digital Content Editor with an excellent eye for detail and experience proofing, editing, and writing multi-lingual content for use across a range of media that will be produced for the Promise Zone Arts (PZA) initiative, a DCA-led cultural…
From the announcement: Today, the Boston Public Library announced the transfer of significant holdings from its Sound Archives Collection to the Internet Archive, which will digitize, preserve and make these recordings accessible to the public. The Boston Public Library (BPL) sound collection includes hundreds of thousands of audio recordings in a variety of historical formats,…
From the announcement: The Internet Archive is now leveraging a little known, and perhaps never used, provision of US copyright law, Section 108h, which allows libraries to scan and make available materials published 1923 to 1941 if they are not being actively sold. Elizabeth Townsend Gard, a copyright scholar at Tulane University calls this “Library…
About the resource: Later today, I am teaching a workshop on sound, kicking off our new GCDI Sound Series. In the workshop I will review a variety of digital tools, techniques and concepts for recording, editing and sharing sound… Like the workshops led by previous Digital Fellows, my workshop is publicly available to follow online. Currently,…
From the report: I’m filing this conference report from the annual Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, which just wrapped in Orlando, Florida. The conference is a project of Anita B.org, which has been a community for women in computing since 1987. According to the GHC conference website, it’s the largest gathering of women in…
At the 2017 Australian Historical Association Conference, in a panel about digital history, Professor Victoria Haskins discussed what she described as a “replica archive.” Haskins’ research is concerned with Indigenous domestic servants in Australia and the United States – women whose lives, she rightly notes, are often difficult to uncover in the archives. Technology, however,…