CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Seeding Digital Scholarship! April 24th

From the announcement: This spring, we’re hosing a digital scholarship capacity-building event for librarians, staff, and faculty from Ontario-region universities. Join us for a day of planning (& playing!) – you”ll leave with experience and ideas to grow big and small digital scholarship activities in your institution. Read more: Seeding Digital Scholarship!

Job Announcements, News

Job: Coordinator of Digital Projects at University of Houston

From the announcement: The Coordinator of Digital Projects reports to the Head of Special Collections. Primary responsibilities include managing the internal workflow for the department’s digital library projects and supervising assigned personnel. The Coordinator leads departmental efforts, in collaboration with other UH Libraries departments to preserve, process, and provide access to audiovisual and digital materials, […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Fellowships

From the announcement: The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation is pleased to invite applications for a range of short-term residential fellowships at the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library, with its distinguished collection of primary and secondary sources relating to the Revolutionary era, the colonial Chesapeake, African American studies, decorative arts and material culture through 1830, archaeology, architectural […]

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CFP: The Internet and Online Pedagogy

From the CFP: Pedagogy and pedagogical thinking, with invaluable support from the various disciplines already concerned with the Internet, reside in the ability to articulate and offer new ways of educational representation. Besides interdisciplinary matters, this construction is not a mechanical path that consists in shifting old pedagogy onto the Internet; nor is it something […]

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CFP: 10th Conference ISKO-France 2015

From the announcement: Knowledge organization has been the main object of research for the French branch of ISKO, since its foundation in 1996. We have successively explored organizational structure, the technical tools of mediation as well as the forms and mechanisms of knowledge-sharing systems. All these questions are related to the mechanisms of the production […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: DPLA — Sharing Data for Better Discovery and Access

From the announcement: The Internet Archive and the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) are pleased to announce a joint collaborative program to enhance sharing of collections from the Internet Archive in the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The Internet Archive will work with interested Libraries and content providers to help ensure their metadata […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Intern, JSTOR

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Intern (DH) will work the JSTOR Labs team to extend Understanding Shakespeare, its partnership project with the Folger Shakespeare Library. Understanding Shakespeare has shown a new way of connecting primary texts with the literature about them, and the DH Intern will play a pivotal role in making this resource […]

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CFP: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference

From the CFP: The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is accepting proposals for its annual Scholarly Publishing Conference, to be held August 11-14, 2015 in Vancouver. Abstracts are being solicited for 5-minute lightning talks and 2-day development sprint. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2015. Source: CFP: PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference

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Opportunity: PhD Opportunity on ‘Abstract Mapping for Ancient and Contemporary Cities’

From the post: The School of Computing at the University of Kent is currently advertising an exciting and innovative interdisciplinary research project lead by Dr Peter Rodgers (Computing) and Dr Benjamin Vis (Classical and Archaeological Studies). We are looking for an enthusiastic PhD student with advanced software development skills. The ideal candidate would also have […]