Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoc: Program Coordinator and Analyst, Anvil Academic Publishing, CLIR

CLIR and the National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), working with leading liberal arts colleges and universities, have launched a broad-based, collaborative publishing experiment that is scalable, widely adoptable, low-cost, and readily accessible by scholarly authors and readers. The project, called Anvil Academic Publishing, is a new digital academic publishing platform designed to address […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Curatorial Assistant (temporary), NYPL

The New York Public Library seeks an extremely organized, detail-oriented person to serve as the Library’s Digital Curatorial Assistant.   The successful candidate will work closely with the Library’s curators, permissions office, attorneys, and collections strategy department to: (i) assist the Library in its efforts to make its myriad collections more broadly available to researchers and […]

News, Reports

Report: Google Digital Humanities Awards Recipient Interviews Report

As input into the development, design, and improvement of the HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC), recipients of Google’s Digital Humanities Grants were interviewed to identify issues encountered during their projects. This project was guided by the following goals: – Increase empirical understanding of how to identify materials for use by scholars. – Increase empirical understanding of […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Race and the Digital Humanities (MLA13 Special Session Proposal)

Race and the Dig­i­tal Human­i­ties will explore how race and eth­nic­ity are impor­tant struc­tural cat­e­gories of analy­sis in the dig­i­tal human­i­ties. How do race and eth­nic­ity fac­tor into ques­tions of access within the dig­i­tal human­i­ties? How are dig­i­tal human­i­ties tools cal­i­brated to take into account the effects of race and eth­nic­ity? How is race con­fig­ured in dif­fer­ent […]

News, Reports

Report: “Users, Narcissism and Control—Tracking the Impact of Scholarly Publications in the 21st Century”

The SURFfoundation has released Users, Narcissism and Control—Tracking the Impact of Scholarly Publications in the 21st Century. Here’s an excerpt: This report explores the explosion of tracking tools that have accompanied the surge of web based information instruments. Is it possible to monitor ‘real-time’ how new research findings are being read, cited, used and transformed […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Digital Humanities 2012 – Call for Student Assistant Bursaries

The student assistant bursary scheme is designed to enable up to 12 international students to participate in the Digital Humanities conference 2012 at the University of Hamburg (July 16-20). In order to provide a well-balanced allocation, the bursaries will be awarded to three students from North America/UK, three from Europe (excluding Germany/UK), three from Middle/South […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Heritage in the Age of Digital Humanities, French National Archives

Our conference proposes to consider both the new issues facing training programs in the heritage industries and the transformations taking place on a wider scale in university and research cultures. Digital humanities suggest a new approach for studying the relations between the way heritage is defined and the manner in which digital resources circulate and are appropriated, and how they […]