The Hesburgh Libraries at the University of Notre Dame seek a knowledgeable and dynamic individual in the field of American History. We are looking for talented, flexible, enthusiastic applicants who have a passion for the teaching and research missions of the university and understand the Libraries’ role in advancing those missions. The successful candidate will…
For the past 20 years I’ve been studying the links between feminist art and the women’s liberation movement. During a sabbatical a few years ago as I travelled from archive to archive I realized the centrality of Carolee Schneemann to the networks I write about. When I saw the edited collection of her letters, I…
At the end of my recent blog post on a data visualization project, I had more questions than answers. I set out to answer one question—had the Museum of Modern Art been collecting American artworks since the museum was founded?—and left wondering what else we could learn about a museum’s collecting practices using big data. In…
Spotlight on the Digital is a co-design project which is exploring barriers to the discovery of digitised resources. To this end we have been drawing up a list of useful literature surrounding these topics. We hope that you might be able to help us by adding to the list as we feel the crowd will…
The Wheaton College Library is recruiting a Digital Asset Curator. Read Full Post Here
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The Getty Research Institute is recruiting a Digital Humanities Specialist. Read Full Post Here
Today, some 20 years after its first formulation, there is little question of the validity of Jerome McGann’s core and repeated argument: that we humanities scholars and publics stand before the vast, near-wholesale digital transformation of our various and shared cultural inheritance. This transformation – more properly, these remediations – are fully underway. They open new avenues for the work of the…
I’ve primarily delivered a version of this talk to digital humanities or plain old humanities or language and literature crowds (my own background being in English). Often times it evolves into a joint effort for the panelists to argue for the importance of injecting critical race/class/gender/queerness/ability into dh, but today, my goal is not to…
Today, we are quite happy to announce a series of 4 2-day workshops addressing this very topic: “Building an Accessible Future.” This 2-day workshop — repeated 4 times in different geographical regions — is where humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals can learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies. We are…