Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Projects Librarian, Binghamton University

From the posting: The Digital Projects Librarian will manage digitization projects for the Libraries, upload items into the digital preservation system (currently Rosetta by Ex Libris), manage workflows and conduct quality checks, and prepare items for retrieval and display via the Libraries’ discovery layer (Primo by Ex Libris). The incumbent will also collaborate with library staff to […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Life of Breath Postdoctoral Fellow Positions – Centre for Medical Humanities

From the announcement: The Centre for Medical Humanities and Department of English Studies, Department of Anthropology, and School of Medicine Pharmacy and Health,  seek to appoint two three year, full-time Postdoctoral Fellows to the Life of Breath project from September 2015 or as soon as possible afterwards.  The Life of Breath is a five-year interdisciplinary research programme supported by a […]

News, Resources

Resource: Historical Maps into Unity3d

From the post: Say there’s a historical map that you want to digitize.  It may or may not have contour lines on it, but there is some indication of the topography (hatching or shading or what not). Say you wanted to digitize it such that a person could explore its conception of geography from a first […]

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Jobs: Digital Humanities Producers at the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History

From the announcement: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History is seeking entry-level digital humanities/multimedia producers for limited-term projects at our headquarters in New York City. Candidates should have the ability and creativity to take materials in a variety of formats to construct high-quality digital presentations.  Familiarity with online best practices and open source programs […]

News, Resources

Resource: Using Waifu2x to Upscale Japanese Prints

In my spare time I’ve been working on a database of Japanese prints for a little over 3.5 years now. I’m fully aware that I’ve never actually written about this, personally very important, project on my blog — until now. Unfortunately this isn’t a post explaining that project. I do still hope to write more […]

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Job: Research and Instruction Librarian/Virtual Reference Coordinator, Duquesne University

From the posting: This is a reference position with significant instructional and liaison duties. Knowledge of information sources, interpersonal skills, instructional skills, and technology skills are of highest importance for this position. Provides research assistance; coordinates and provides training for virtual reference. Collaborates with colleagues and disciplinary faculty to develop, promote, and provide library instruction […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Digital Classicist London Live-Casts

From the announcement: For the first time this year, the Digital Classicist London seminars will be live-cast via the Web, so colleagues who are unable to make it to the events themselves at 16:30 (British Summer Time) on a Friday afternoon, can watch and listen along at the DCLS YouTube channel at: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIamtu1Z62wL5XRk2mE8HKw Or watch […]

News, Resources

Resource: A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights | Center for Digital Humanities – UCLA

From the announcement: UCLA’s Digital Humanities program emphasizes cross-disciplinary, cross-hierarchy collaboration among students, faculty, and staff. We’ve created this Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights as a statement of our values and principles in the UCLA DH program. Collaborations between students and more experienced digital humanities practitioners should benefit everyone. At their best, these partnerships are a […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Critical Blogging in Archaeology, A Special Volume of Internet Archaeology

From the introduction: This special volume of Internet Archaeology collects the leading voices of blogging in archaeology to provide a critical examination of informal, online self-publication. This collection of articles is one result of over a decade of digital communication; the confluence of a conversation that grew from a few lonely voices to a tumultuous […]