From the ad: The UMass Amherst Libraries seek a dynamic and innovative Digital Scholarship Technologist. The Digital Scholarship Technologist develops applications and tools to support incoming and ongoing academic research projects, with a focus on building infrastructure to support digital scholarship. In collaboration with stakeholders, identify requirements, develop workflows, and implement digital services solutions for […]
From the call for participation: The impresso project is looking for associated researchers working in History, Digital Humanities, Media studies and related fields to work with us on the development of novel tools for the study of historical newspapers. We invite you to bring your field expertise in historical research methodologies. impresso. Media Monitoring of […]
[At Jeff McClurken’s invitation, I was recently part of a panel focused on reviewing digital history at Organization of American Historian’s annual meeting. My portion of the discussion was to focus on reviewing digital public history projects, which have their own particularities that make them different that some other genres of digital history. I welcomed […]
I have been chewing on a topic and I could use others’ help. I, like many others, am frustrated by the enormous time gap between scholarly understanding of the privacy issues in digital media technology here in the U.S. and public and political awareness. This is an area of research and teaching for me, so I’ve […]
From the ad: Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine has a great opportunity for a Library Digital Strategist. You would work as a member of the library’s team to develop, support and manage web-based systems and services, including the library’s website and digital collections. Responsible for creating robust systems that facilitate search, discovery, curation, and […]
About the opportunity: Looking for something to do this summer that includes a data science perspective? If so, enroll in the Digital Humanities Summer Program to gain practical, technical, and programming skills and experience while engaging with fascinating content from the arts and humanities. UC Berkeley undergraduate students can enroll in summer courses to earn an official […]
From the announcement: The University of Minnesota Press in partnership with the GC Digital Scholarship Lab at The Graduate Center of The City University of New York, and digital development agency Cast Iron Coding has been awarded a $789,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch phase two of Manifold Scholarship, an open-source […]
If you know me, the topic of this first post may come as unsurprising but also a bit eyebrow-raising. “Sharon, you’ve been working on the Old Bailey Online project (OBO) since forever. Aren’t you bored with it yet?” Meanwhile, those who don’t know me might more likely be asking, “What are the Old Bailey Proceedings?” […]
From the ad: Harvard University Information Technology (HUIT) is a community of Information Technology professionals committed to understanding our users and devoted to making it easier for faculty, students, and staff to teach, research, learn, and work through the effective use of information technology. We are recruiting an IT workforce that has both breadth in […]
From the ad: Under general direction, design, implement, and/or deploys tools for statistical analysis, machine learning, data acquision, data cleaning, and data visualization. Performs professional work in the research, design, development, implementation and maintenance of data science projects. Works typically involves researching a complex problem and implementing a machine learning or analytic tools to solve […]
