Announcements, News

Announcement: Berkeley Prosopography Services receives NEH Digital Humanities Implementation Grant

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Digital Humanities announced seven recipients of Digital Implementation Grants yesterday, including Berkeley Prosopography Services (BPS). Berkeley Prosopography Services, led by Laurie Pearce and Niek Veldhuis, was originally developed as part of a 2009 NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant. Patrick Schmitz, from Research IT, was responsible for the architecture and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: University Archivist + Digital Curator, U of Winnipeg

Reporting to the Dean of the Library, the University Archivist and Digital Curator will be responsible for managing, building and strengthening the University Archives and library special collections, while playing a leadership role in the Library’s development of a digital infrastructure for the University of Winnipeg that will support teaching and research on campus. Source: […]

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Job: Head of Digital Asset Management jobs, Hampton Court Palace

Historic Royal Palaces (HRP) is the independent charity that looks after the Tower of London, Hampton Court Palace, the Banqueting House, Kensington Palace and Kew Palace. HRP has plans to bring the experience of Britain’s finest heritage sites to a wider global audience, to increase domestic membership and the reach of our learning initiatives, and […]

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Job Announcement: Collections Database Manager

ARP, in support of the National Museum of Health and Medicine, seeks a dynamic, creative, initiative-taking Collections Database Manager. Working with the NMHM Collections and Information Technology staffs, the Collections Database Manager is a key member of the team responsible for providing technical advice and maintaining, troubleshooting, and enhancing the NMHM’s collections database (including the […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

CF Participation: The Art of Handwriting

Please help us transcribe these letters in the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art. Your transcriptions will be featured in an forthcoming publication, “The Art of Handwriting.” In our age of e-mails, texts and tweets, when handwritten letters have ceased to be a primary mode of person-to-person communication, this book will explore what we can learn […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Save the Dates! Here are MITH’s Fall 2014 Digital Dialogues speakers

MITH is excited to announce the lineup of speakers for our Fall 2014 Digital Dialogues season!  Our seven speakers come from a wide variety of research specialties ranging from Women’s Studies, Film & Digital Media,  Information Studies and gaming culture. All talks are at 12:30 pm in the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities […]

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Job Announcement: Associate Director for the Digital Library at NCSU

The NCSU Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Associate Director for the Digital Library. The Associate Director plays a leading role in shaping the future of the NCSU Libraries as an essential competitive advantage for learning and research. With administrative responsibility for digital library strategy and technology in one of the nation’s most forward-thinking libraries, s/he […]

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Job: Book Designer/Production Assistant at UNC Press

This is an entry- to mid-level position that includes but is not limited to the following: Designing book covers and dustjackets and designing or applying already existing templates to interior book designs. This is a small department that covers the production of both books and journals. Other duties include, but are not limited to: conversion […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Art History – A New Frontier in Research: New Approaches to Intelligent Image Databases in Art History

Art History is at the brink of new ways of accessing its material and gaining unprecedented insights. While we are still using image databases that resemble slide libraries, Information Science has to offer multiple advanced approaches to images, such as content based search and classification that will become important tools for art historical research. Big […]