Radical changes in the information landscape are transforming traditional academic roles and the roles of libraries within the academy. This program prepares a new generation of librarians, scientists, and scholars for work at the intersections of scholarship, teaching and librarianship in the emerging research environment. CLIR Postdoctoral Fellows in Academic Libraries work on projects that […]
The CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships are intended to support and stimulate historical research in the two pilot areas of medieval European culture and the First World War, by facilitating access to key archives, specialist knowledge and collections in CENDARI host institutions. The CENDARI Transnational Access programme is financed by the European Union. In particular, the […]
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has received an Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a project entitled, “Workset Creation For Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project” (WCSA). More information about the Prime Award project is available from http://worksets.htrc.illinois.edu. The overall goal of this project is to develop new tools […]
For the Code4Lib 2014 Conference, 9 scholarships have been sponsored to promote diversity. Each scholarship will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for a qualified attendee to attend the 2014 Code4Lib Conference, which will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, from March 24 – 27, 2014. Read Full Post Here
Vanderbilt University invites you to participate in a summer seminar for humanities scholars working with XML documents (such as TEI, EAD, or MODS). The XQuery Summer Institute is designed for scholars with basic experience marking up texts who would like to acquire advanced skills in how to query and computationally analyze XML documents. Find More Information […]
ChronoZoom, an open source project initiated by Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley enables students to explore, create, and tell stories with timelines directly from within a web browser. As the 2013 recipient of the SXSW Interactive Award for Best Educational Resource, ChronoZoom is developing lesson plans to teach historical thinking concepts to middle and high school students. […]
The National Endowment for the Humanities is now accepting proposals for the National Digital Newspaper Program. The National Digital Newspaper Program is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to develop a searchable database of historically significant newspapers published in the United States. The Library of Congress hosts the site for this project at Chronicling America, a […]
As a way of giving back to ADHO, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute at the University of Victoria will be offering 10 tuition scholarships in 2014 specifically to members of ADHO and its constituent organizations. View post here
The Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) is the University’s hub for research into creative media applications in real world contexts, producing new knowledge about everyday life in today’s digital media ecology. The post represents an exciting opportunity for a committed and dynamic researcher to play a major role in the continuing development of an internationally recognised research centre. Research Fellow—Digital Cultures […]
Ithaka S+R is launching a new training course starting in January 2014, Sustaining Digital Resources, specifically designed for leaders of digital projects who are developing sustainability plans for the digital resources they have created. Our focus is not on the technical aspects of preservation, but encourages participants to define the longer-range goals for their projects, […]
