Job: Digital Library Data Curation Developer, University of Notre Dame
The University of Notre Dame is recruiting a Digital Library Data Curation Developer. See the full ad here.
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Job: DH Research Coordinator at Ghent University
Ghent University is hiring a Digital Humanities Research Coordinator. See the full ad here.
Job: Research Fellow in Digital Humanities/History, University of Sussex
The University of Sussex wishes to appoint a fixed-term (4-year) fellowship (Research Fellow) in Digital Humanities/Digital History. See the job ad here: Research Fellow in Digital Humanities/Digital History at University of Sussex
Resource: Visual Correspondence: Analysing Letters through Data Visualisation
From the post: As well as providing tools to visualise the metadata, in bringing together detail on sender, recipient, place and date for over 150,000 letters for over twenty collections, Visual Correspondence provides a new way to explore the letters themselves. Where possible, links back to the original texts are provided. Also using data from […]
CFP: DH and Media Studies – Teaching Media
From the call for papers: Media studies and Digital Humanities (DH) work share a range of intersecting concerns. Recent discipline-wide discussions in Flow and Media Commons, as well as at the SCMS and MLA conferences, have emphasized the crossovers between the two. For this issue of the Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier, we seek contributions that […]
Call for Papers – Making ‘Big Data’ Human: Doing History in a Digital Age | Doing History in Public
From the Call for Papers: This one-day conference will approach what it means to use big data to ‘do history’. Through a series of panel sessions we will address questions such as: What new opportunities can big data provide for historians? Can we retain the richness of history in big data, and what might historical […]
Job: Data Modelling and Standards Expert for the Arts and Humanities
From the announcement: The fellow will have the responsibility to take a leadership role in the advancement of the work in the standardisation work package of the Parthenos project. In particular, he/she will be responsible to set up the basis of a comprehensive documentation of recommended standards (introductory material, schemas, samples), design the structure of […]
Job: DeBartolo Professor, Digital Humanities
From the announcement: The Department of English at the University of South Florida seeks applicants for the DeBartolo Professor in the field of digital humanities. Literary or rhetorical field is open, but the candidate should be interested in bridging the three concentrations of literature, rhetoric and composition, and creative writing at the graduate level through […]
Resource: Text Capture and Optical Character Recognition 101
From the post: This blog will introduce text capture by describing the different methods with a focus upon historical documents. I will introduce the basics of OCR and rekeying with discussion of handwriting and voice recognition. Source: Text Capture and Optical Character Recognition 101
Job: Teaching Fellow in Digital Humanities at King’s College London
From the announcement: This post is a 12-month teaching fellow position available from the 1st September 2015. The successful applicant will deliver excellent postgraduate and undergraduate teaching across all the department programmes offered with a particularly focus on the rapidly growing MA in Digital Asset and Media Management (MA DAMM) as well contribute to core […]