Job: Labs Technical Lead at British Library
The British Library is recruiting a BL Labs Technical Lead.
Author: Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Editors’ Choice: Tate Digital Strategy 2013–15: Digital as a Dimension of Everything
Through the development of a holistic digital proposition there is an opportunity to use the digital to deliver Tate’s mission to promote public understanding and enjoyment of British, modern and contemporary art. To achieve this, digital will need to become a dimension of everything that Tate does. 1. Vision Through embracing digital activity and skills across the […]
Editors’ Choice: 4Humanities: Values, Strategies, Technologies for Humanities Advocacy in the Digital Age
In April, Dr. Alan Liu, Professor in the Department of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, spoke about ways in which the skills and resources of the DH community can help advocate for the humanities. Listen to podcast here.
Report: Notes from ‘Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities’ conference by Mia Ridge
Last week I attended a one-day conference, ‘Digital Impacts: Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities‘ (#oxcrowd), convened by Kathryn Eccles of Oxford’s Internet Institute, and I’m sharing my (sketchy, as always) notes in the hope that they’ll help people who couldn’t attend. Open Objects: Notes from ‘Crowdsourcing in the Arts and Humanities’.
CFParticipation: DHMakerBus | Hacking on a bus from London to Nebraska
We want to promote making, hacking, and digital humanities in London. And in order to reduce the number of barriers that exist to accessing technology and information, we believe that a need for a mobile maker lab exists. Our project will have two stages. Stage one will consist of buying a used bus, loading it […]
Resource: StackLife for Browsing DPLA
StackLife demonstrates one way a group independent of the Digital Public Library of America can create its own way of browsing its collection, using the information made openly available by the DPLA. DPLA StackLife.
Resource: National Library of Medicine Releases Extensible Markup Language XML for IndexCat™ Data
Data Includes More than 3.7 Million Bibliographic Items Spanning Five Centuries The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, announces that Extensible Markup Language (XML) data from the IndexCat™ database is now available for free download. NLM Releases Extensible Markup Language XML for IndexCat™ Data.
CFP: Archive Journal Special Issue “Publishing the Archive”
Archive Journal is now accepting project and essay proposals for the “Archives, Remixed” section of its upcoming fourth issue, “Publishing the Archive.” This issue will examine how technological developments—from discrete digitization projects and databases to linked data and APIs for extensible machine-readability—are changing how we produce and publish archives and archival research. http://www.archivejournal.net/home/submit-to-archive/#CFP Archive Journal – Issue […]
Job: Academic Web Developer at Yale University
The Academic Web Developer will work as part of a team of developers and designers with a strong reputation for producing leading edge platforms, websites, and software for digital scholarly projects. DigitalKoans » Blog Archive Academic Web Developer at Yale University » DigitalKoans.
Jobs: Historypin Project Officer Positions (1 in SF, 1 in London)
Historypin Project Officers (POs) work under the leadership of the Operations Director (London), and are supported by our creative team (London) and Strategic Partnerships Director (San Francisco). We take an entrepreneurial approach to our programs and POs have the opportunity to grow and expand their programs based on their own ideas and insights. http://wearewhatwedo.org/vacancies/