The Division of Arts & Humanities of the College of Letters & Science at the University of California, Berkeley, seeks applications for an experienced professional to coordinate a new program, Capacity Building and Integration in the Digital Humanities. Source: Recruitment Details – UC Berkeley AP Recruit
Responsible for server-side programming and developing web applications and associated documentation to support research in the humanities. View ad here.
Reporting to the Manager of Digital Initiatives and Services, the Digital Initiatives Librarian has the technical ability and knowledge to assist in the development, implementation, and management of the Library’s growing digital collections, publications, and resources. View ad here.
DIGITAL STUDIES. The University of Michigan’s Department of American Culture and the Residential College seek qualified applicants for a jointly-appointed tenure-track assistant professor in the area of Digital Studies and Social Justice. This is a university-year appointment with an expected start date of September 1, 2015. View ad here.
The position is funded by the DFG/ANR project TEXTE LSEM (2014 – 2017) investigating the application of Semantic Web and related technologies to support archaeological and philological research in reconstructing the historic geography of Mesopotamia in the 2nd mill. BC. Full details: http://bit.ly/textelsem
.entry-header The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan seeks to appoint a senior information and research scientist to direct the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd). View ad here. .entry-content
The Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid responders, which provides step-by-step guidelines for using user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies. While it primarily targets journalists and aid providers, the Handbook can be used by anyone. It’s advice and guidance are valuable whether you are a news journalist, citizen reporter, relief responder, […]
Costume Core is a new application profile, building on existing metadata standards to create a specification for cataloging and encoding costume. This specification is being tested to consider its application for an inter-institutional digital resource for the study of the history of dress, HistoricDress.org. Source: Costume Core | An application profile for cataloging costume.
A new section of the Mediacommons project known as #alt-academy is dedicated to “Graduate Training in the 21st Century.” Edited by Melissa Dalgleish (York University) and Daniel Powell (University of Victoria), the first “cluster” is exploring “how the prototypical graduate project in the humanities—the dissertation—is changing in the face of the digital turn, shifting job markets, and […]
The “Crossing Borders” theme invites discussion of the social construction and social impacts of borders dividing individuals, groups, and nations. It challenges us to explore how borders are created, how they can change, and the complex processes shaping whether, and how, they can be crossed – and with what consequences. View CFP Here.
