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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Web Writing: Why & How for Liberal Arts Teaching & Learning: a born-digital book-in-progress

Call for Essay Ideas & Proposals (now thru June 15, 2013) Join our discussion to shape the direction of WebWriting, a book-in-progress sponsored by the Center for Teaching and Learning at Trinity College. This born-digital, open-access volume integrates why questions with online examples and tutorials to illustrate how faculty and students are doing this work. Topics include: Why should we integrate the web into […]

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Funding & Opportunities, News

Internship: Art Authority Summer Intern Program, year 3

Today we announced year 3 of our very successful summer intern program. As wediscussed last year in this blog, the Art Authority Summer Intern Program offers art and art history majors a 21st century alternative to traditional art docent internships. By working on our cutting-edge app and database, technology-focused students gain experience with and exposure to a set of […]

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Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Digital Designer at W. W. Norton & Company, Inc.

W. W. Norton & Company is seeking an Assistant Digital Designer for the Digital Products Group.  The Assistant Designer will be responsible for designing, developing and managing digital products from concept to completion.  As an entry-level assistant position, the job entails very light administrative duties. Candidates must be highly organized, motivated, have strong verbal and […]

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Funding & Opportunities, News

Fellowship: Open Data Fellowship Accepting Applications – 04-24-2013

Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO), in partnership with the OpenGLAM initiative, Open Knowledge Foundation, and Wikimedia NYC, is now accepting  applications for an Open Data Fellowship for Summer 2013. This paid, 8-week fellowship will serve two roles: Wikipedian-in-Residence for member institutions in the METRO consortium Facilitator for institutions interested in pursuing broader open data initiatives METRO is a non-profit […]

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Job Announcements, News

Job: Join the MITH team as a Project Manager!

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities at the University of Maryland is seeking an experienced project manager who will provide coordination and management for research projects and initiatives in the digital humanities. The Project Manager will work with senior MITH staff to conceptualize, implement, and manage digital humanities research work in a collaborative, […]

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News, Reports

Report: Definitions That May Matter Less (For NEH-ODH Grants)

In my last post, “Definitions that Matter (Of Digital Humanities),” I did some analysis of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) fellowships offered through its Office of Digital Humanities (ODH), in which I tried to show that these grants have largely focused on what I’ve been calling “narrow” Digital Humanities. In the comments to that piece, Brett Bobley, […]

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Funding & Opportunities, News

Prize: Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital History

The Roy Rosenzweig Prize for Innovation in Digital Historyis sponsored jointly by the AHA and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (CHNM) at George Mason University. It was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007), the Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, to honor […]

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News, Reports

Report: Blog Archive “Drowning in Research Data: Addressing Data Management Literacy of Graduate Students” » DigitalKoans

In this paper we will discuss findings from our research study of social sciences and science graduate students’ levels of research data management literacy, which include attitudes and behaviours, and formal and informal education experiences. Using an online survey of Canadian graduate students in the social sciences and science, we were able to reach a […]

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News, Resources

Resource: Blog Archive ACRL Makes Entire College & Research Libraries Archive Freely Available » DigitalKoans

“Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession,” said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. “Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL’s ongoing commitment to promote and deliver on the promise of open access. It is a treasure trove of content […]

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