Be HASTAC’s online community strategist. Job responsibilities will include web site administrator and builder, new media strategy and implementation, digital media and learning competition technical support, being a team member, institutional coordination, digital communication, and EAGER project manager and collaborator. View job ad here.
The Wiki Education Foundation (WEF) is a new non-profit organization which supports innovative uses of and content creation for Wikipedia and related projects in communities of teaching, learning and inquiry by encouraging collaboration among Wikipedia editors, educators and researchers and students. The WEF’s principal initiative is the U.S. and Canada Wikipedia Education Program (“the program”), which connects…
We put on two week-long programs, where girls 12 to 14 learned how to brainstorm, design, build, and pitch iPhone apps. We also raised $106K via our Indiegogo campaign, thanks to the incredible support from our community of app developers, designers and geeks of all stripes. We are working on plans for Summer 2014, including expanding camp…
Reporting to the Digital Publications Manager, the Digital Publications Developer will be a key position in building a multi-faceted digital publications program for the Getty. The Digital Publications Developer supports Getty Publications in the creation of digital books across a variety of formats and platforms; in the management of digital assets and workflows for creating…
Yea, as a fellow with the City of LA Department of Cultural Affairs, I have a mission to innovate and technologize the department. I’m spearheading the department’s web redesign project — thinking about how to better articulate our work, outreach to constituents, and digitize some of our services. I’m still wearing my ethnographer’s hat, thinking…
The New Art Resources Consortium (NYARC), consisting of the libraries of The Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, and The Frick Collection, seeks an experienced information professional to coordinate a two year grant funded program to expand and improve its program for collecting and archiving web content of specialist art resources. See full ad…
The University of South Carolina seeks an Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities. See job ad here.
The HILT conference is being held at the University of Maryland August 4-8, 2014. Registration is now open. See information here.
Dreaming of What Might Be examines the contentious but significant history of the labour organization known as the Noble and Holy Order of the Knights of Labor. The comic book shows how the organization took root in Canada and “encouraged people to ‘dream of what might be’ and take action on the job rather than give…
Recent research indicates a high recall in Google Scholar searches for systematic reviews. These reports raised high expectations of Google Scholar as a unified and easy to use search interface. However, studies on the coverage of Google Scholar rarely used the search interface in a realistic approach but instead merely checked for the existence of…