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Announcements, News

Announcement: Berkeley Prosopography Services receives NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities announced seven recipients of Digital Implementation Grants yesterday, including Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS). Berkeley Prosopography Services, led by Laurie Pearce and Niek Veldhuis, was originally developed as part of a 2009 NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. Patrick Schmitz, from Research IT, was responsible for the architecture and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: University Archivist + Digital Curator, U of Winnipeg

Reporting to the Dean of the Library, the University Archivist and Digital Curator will be responsible for managing, building and strengthening the University Archives and library special collections, while playing a leadership role in the Library’s development of a digital infrastructure for the University of Winnipeg that will support teaching and research on campus. Source: […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: First Draft Podcast – Humanities Savior Narrative

Glen Worthey, Digital Humanities Librarian, Stanford University Libraries, joins Elijah Meeks, Jason Heppler, and Paul Zenke to discuss his experiences at DH 2014, the popularity of DH projects, the humanities savior narrative, mentorship, Twitter, #dhsheep, linguistic inclusivity at conferences, and the future of DH programs. Read more at First Draft Podcast: Humanities Savior Narrative.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: TOME Project Talk at Digital Humanities 2014

Just over a hundred years ago, in 1898, Henry Gannett published the second of what would become three illustrated Statistical Atlases of the United States. Based on the results of the Census of 1890– and I note, if only to make myself feel a little better about the slow pace of academic publishing today, eight years […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Head of Digital Asset Management jobs, Hampton Court Palace

Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) is the independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace. HRP has plans to bring the experience of Britain’s finest heritage sites to a wider global audience, to increase domestic membership and the reach of our learning initiatives, and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job Announcement: Collections Database Manager

ARP, in support of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, seeks a dynamic, creative, initiative-taking Collections Database Manager. Working with the NMHM Collections and Information Technology staffs, the Collections Database Manager is a key member of the team responsible for providing technical advice and maintaining, troubleshooting, and enhancing the NMHM’s collections database (including the […]

By: sshelley
Funding & Opportunities, News

CF Participation: The Art of Handwriting

Please help us transcribe these letters in the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Your transcriptions will be featured in an forthcoming publication, “The Art of Handwriting.” In our age of e-mails, texts and tweets, when handwritten letters have ceased to be a primary mode of person-to-person communication, this book will explore what we can learn […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Preservation Aesthetics

I’m honored to be giving one of the opening plenary talks— alongside the fantastic Matt Kirschenbaum — at the Library of Congress/NDIIPP “Digital Preservation 2014″ conference next week. When Trevor Owens invited me, I wasn’t sure what I could contribute — given that most attendees are likely to be technological geniuses, and I’m, well, not. But Trevor […]

By: Shannon