The Geospatial Historian is a tutorial-based open access textbook, modeled on the Programming Historian, designed to teach humanists practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs. Geospatial Historian | beta website.
MITH is delighted to announce our fall 2013 slate of Digital Dialogues speakers. All events are held in the MITH Conference Room, 0301 Hornbake Library, University of Maryland. View Schedule Here.
Scope: The 3rd International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA) aims to bring together researchers, engineers and practitioners interested on databases, data warehousing, data mining, data management, data security and other aspects of information systems and technology involving advanced applications of data. View CFP here.
Speaking in Code is an NEH-funded symposium and summit that will bring together approximately 20 accomplished digital humanities software developers at the University of Virginia Library Scholars’ Lab. Together, we will give voice to what is almost always tacitly expressed in our work: expert knowledge about the intellectual and interpretive dimensions of DH code-craft, and […]
The University of Mary Washington Libraries are recruiting a Digital Resources Librarian. View job here.
Humanities + Design at Stanford University invites applications for a postdoctoral fellowship funded by an NEH Digital Humanities Implementation grant for “Networks in History.” The Fellow will join a research team working within Stanford’s Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis (CESTA, http://cesta.stanford.edu/) on the design of visualization techniques that emphasize the contextualization and interpretation of data in cases where we lack the metrics for […]
The Department of History at Michigan State University is currently seeking a specialist in Digital Social Science and Humanities to coordinate its new digital initiative, LEADR (Lab for the Education and Advancement in Digital Research). View job here.
We are seeking an innovative and forward-looking leader to advance the mission and strategic objectives of HathiTrust, a growing partnership of research and academic libraries that are working together to ensure permanent access to the record of human knowledge. The Executive Director serves as the chief executive officer of HathiTrust and is responsible for the […]
To design, develop, maintain and enhance the systems that support the activities of the Texas Digital Library (TDL). TDL provides digital repository software to academic libraries, manages, maintains codebase for the Thesis and Dissertation Management Systems, and develops code toward digital asset preservation. View job here.
The one-covers-all approach in current metadata standards for scientific data has serious limitations in keeping up with the ever-growing data. This paper reports the findings from a survey to metadata standards in the scientific data domain and argues for the need for a metadata infrastructure. The survey collected 4400+ unique elements from 16 standards and […]
