The Center for Digital Research and Scholarship seeks a full-time Research/Scholarship Initiatives Manager. Reporting to CDRS’ director, this newly created position will be responsible for devising, implementing, and leading outreach activities promoting digital projects, the institutional repository, and scholarly communication initiatives on campus, helping to position CDRS and CUL/IS as key partners in the understanding,…

Read More

The Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation (Lemelson Center) at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (NMAH) is recruiting for a Web and Digital Media Specialist to join the team. The Lemelson Center (http://invention.smithsonian.org) is dedicated to exploring invention in history and encouraging inventive creativity in young people….

Read More

The Digital Humanities Lab Denmark (DIGHUMLAB) research infrastructure is looking for a visionary, dynamic and competent project manager to head the national research infrastructure DIGHUMLAB (set up in accordance with the national roadmap for research infrastructure:  http://fivu.dk/en/publications/2011/danish-roadmap-for-research-infrastructure-2011/. View Job Ad Here

The exhibits pilot innovation grant project was a partnership of three departments, Digital Content Services (formerly SRI), Rare Books and Manuscripts, and the Web Implementation Team (now Applications, Development and Support). The Preservation and Reformatting Department (Amy McCrory) and the Copyright Resources Center (Sandra Enimil) were also heavily involved. The grant was “to develop a…

Read More

I teach the Demystifying Digital Humanities (DMDH) workshop series at the University of Washington. This series includes six 3-hour workshops over the course of the school year, providing an introduction to digital humanities and multimodal scholarship, and some of the activities associated with digital humanities (DH) — professionalisation through social media, working with code, and…

Read More

Raw is a tool we developed to create vector-based visualization based on data. Primarily conceived as a tool for designers and vis geeks, Raw aims at providing a missing link between spreadsheet applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, OpenRefine) and vector graphics editors (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Sketch) View Resource Here.