Job Announcements, News

Job: Draper Program Clinical Faculty Position in Digital Humanities at NYU

From the announcement: The John W. Draper Interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Humanities and Social Thought invites applications for the following Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow positions. Initial appointments will be for one year beginning September 1, 2014, and are renewable annually for a maximum of three years, pending budgetary and administrative approval. Clinical Faculty Position in Digital […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: George Mason University, Director of the Virtual Library of Virginia

From the announcement: The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) invites applications for the position of Director, a rare opportunity to lead one of the most highly-respected academic library consortia in the United States, due to the upcoming retirement of its founding director. VIVA seeks inspired leadership for an academic library community that is continually in […]

News, Reports

Report: CNI Digital Scholarship Centers Report and Web Resource

From the announcement: An emerging trend that CNI has been highlighting for the past few years is the establishment of digital scholarship centers or labs in universities and colleges. We invited participation in a workshop to document the current centers and identify good practice, in April, 2014, and 24 institutions who had centers up and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Apply to be a new DPLA Hub

From the call: The Digital Public Library of America seeks applicants to serve as Service Hubs and Content Hubs in our growing national network.  The applications and corresponding instructions are available from the links below. Digital Public Library of America » Blog Archive » Apply to be a new DPLA Hub!.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: DH Now Editor-at-Large

We here at Digital Humanities Now invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for rotations throughout Spring 2015. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing our aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, as well as your own networks, to nominate content for distribution through DHNow and […]

News, Resources

Resource: Dereference a DOI using python

A little python script that allows to pass an article DOI in order to obtain all the metadata related to that article. The script relies on the handy crosscite.org API, which is one of the wonderful services provided by CrossRef. Source: Dereference a DOI using python

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Data Repository Specialist at Purdue University

Here’s an excerpt from the ad: Purdue University Libraries seeks a Digital Data Repository Specialist to join our team at the Distributed Data Curation Center (D2C2) and coordinate our cutting-edge research data repository service, PURR. The Purdue University Research Repository (http://purr.purdue.edu) provides a platform for campus researchers to develop and implement effective data management plans, […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Taylor’s World Conference | S.C. Williams Library

From the call: On September 24th and 25th, 2015, Stevens Institute of Technology will be hosting a conference on the life and legacy of Frederick Winslow Taylor, a graduate of Stevens who is widely recognized as the father of scientific management. The event marks the centennial of Taylor’s death in 1915, and will explore both […]

Announcements, News

Announcement Annotags: A Concept for a Decentralized Literary Annotation Protocol

From the announcement: Have you ever wanted to livetweet a book? I often want to. Yet there doesn’t seem to be a standard way of doing that. You could tweet, for instance, “Oh Captain Wentworth! When will you propose? #JaneAustenPersuasion” but the hashtag isn’t standardized, so some people might be tweeting under #Persuasion and others […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Eastern ARC Digital Humanities PhD Studentships – Art, Media and American Studies – UEA

From the post: As part of the Eastern Academic Research Consortium (Eastern ARC), the University of East Anglia is seeking to fund two PhD students to develop world leading research in the area of Digital Humanities. The successful candidates will be expected to conduct their own doctoral research while at the same time furthering collaboration across […]