Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Library Developer, Vassar College

From the ad: The Vassar College Libraries seek a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and experienced professional for the position of digital library developer. We are looking for a creative problem-solver with a passion for libraries who enjoys the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions that will bring our digital scholarship and library technology services to new […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Research Fellow: Curtin University, Cultural Heritage & Visualisation

From the ad: Curtin University has, in cooperation with UNESCO, established a Chair in Cultural Heritage and Visualisation. The purpose of the Chair is to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation on virtual heritage sites and facilitate collaboration between high-level, internationally-recognized researchers and teaching staff of the University and other institutions […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: PressForward Workshops at UC Berkeley

Interested in learning new ways to gather content from the open web and to share it with your students, colleagues, and scholarly communities? On October 18, the Berkeley Center for New Media and the University of California Davis Library will host two workshops on PressForward (http://pressforward.org/), a free, open-source WordPress tool that facilitates the easy […]

Funding & Opportunities

Funding: Libraries and Museums Advance the Digital Humanities, New Grant Opportunity

Nearly 10 years ago, IMLS partnered with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to launch the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program. Over the last decade, this program has provided seed money to projects that have had a significant impact on the digital tools and services offered by libraries and museums…. We are thrilled to […]

News, Resources

Resource: Preserving & Curating ETD Research Data & Complex Digital Objects

The Educopia Institute has released a set of six Guidance Briefs on the curation and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations as part of their ETDplus project. These Guidance Briefs have been authored by the ETDplus project team as short (3-4 page) “how-to” oriented briefs that will help ETD/IR programs build and nurture supportive relationships with […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities

From the ad: The Department of English at Miami University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective August 2017. We are seeking candidates whose primary research, scholarship, and/or creative practice is in digital humanities and/or digital studies, with the ability to contribute to the intersections of two or more […]

News, Reports

Report: Towards an Open Humanities Data Platform

From the post: DARIAH recently released a report on open access publishing of research data in the humanities. It is part of DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale project (HaS). As an output of work package 7 the report is a first step in the design process of an Open Humanities Data Platform, which will be the […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Fellowship: Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellow, Rice University

From the ad: Rice University’s Center for Research Computing and Humanities Research Center will award one postdoctoral fellowship in digital scholarship focused on humanities and qualitative social sciences. The fellow will develop a research project in digital humanities and/or digital qualitative social sciences; consult with the humanistic research community engaged in digital scholarship projects at […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, University of Kansas

The University of Kansas seeks a tenure-track assistant professor in Digital Humanities. From the ad: This position is a full-time, academic year appointment.  The accomplished digital humanist will participate in the Humanities Program teaching, including established courses at the introductory level (e.g., HUM 110 Introduction to Humanities), as well as working with the Institute for […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Persistent URL Service, purl.org, Now Run by the Internet Archive

From the post: OCLC and the Internet Archive today announced the results of a year-long cooperation to ensure the future of purl.org. The organizations have worked together to build a new service hosted by the Internet Archive that will manage the persistent URLs and sub-domain redirections for purl.org, purl.com and purl.net. Read full announcement here.