Resource: Expose, A Simple Static Site Generator for Photoessays
Expose is a Bash script that turns those images and videos into a photoessay similar to jack.ventures or jack.works (my personal blogs). Access resource here.
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Announcement: Online Graduate Certificate in Digital Public Humanities
Digital tools and resources are transforming the ways in which we research, interpret, and communicate. Be part of this change by enrolling in the graduate online Digital Public Humanities Certificate created by the Department of History and Art History and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in partnership […]
Job: Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion at Pepperdine University
Pepperdine University is recruiting a Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion. From the ad: The Librarian works closely with special collections and university archives personnel to identify, research, and prioritize materials for ingest into digital collections, which are powered by CONTENTdm. Following best practices, the Librarian devises scanning workflows and metadata schema appropriate to […]
Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian University of Minnesota
From the ad: The Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) provides strategic direction for the University of Minnesota Libraries in developing and sustaining new models of support for digital scholarship, primarily through coordination of the Digital Arts Sciences & Humanities (DASH) initiative. The DSL guides campus scholars on the integration of digital technologies and methodologies in research […]
CFP: That’s Not How Scholarship Works
We are currently seeking submissions for a proposed MLA 17 special session, “That’s Not How Scholarship Works: Exploring the Process of Multimodal Critical Making.” This session will gather an interdisciplinary group of scholars and editors who engage with critical making as scholarship to reveal their process: the post-it notes, sketches, planning, code experiments, and non-linear piecing together […]
CFParticipation: Archives Unleashed – Web Archive Datathon
This workshop (Washington DC, June 14 – 15), with the generous support of the National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Internet Archive, Rutgers University, and the University of Waterloo, presents an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our web collections, exploring cutting-edge research tools while fostering a broad-based consensus on future directions in web […]
Resource: Unix Pipes for Exploring and Cleaning Data
Do you have a spreadsheet, JSON, or plain text file filled with data that you haven’t come to terms with? If you’re using Mac OSX, you already have a powerful tool at your disposal for exploring and cleaning a text-based data set. By using terminal commands, you can get a feel for an otherwise unwieldy […]
Announcement: Classical Language Toolkit Participating in Google Summer of Code
We are thrilled to announce that the CLTK has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2016. This is a tremendous opportunity for Classics students’ careers, an affirmation of the CLTK’s vision, and an chance for us, as mentors, to give back.GSoC funds students to work for three months on an approved open source project. […]
Job: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Literary Geography
The Textual Geographies project at the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with the Text Mining the Novel project, solicits applications for a 12-month postdoctoral fellowship in computational literary geography. The fellow will pursue her or his own research agenda, participate in the intellectual life of the digital humanities community at Notre Dame, and collaborate on projects of […]
Announcement: CAA & SAH Release Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural History
The College Art Association (CAA), working jointly with the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), has released its Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural History for Promotion and Tenure. The guidelines are the result of a Task Force convened by the two associations of ten members from the academic community with […]