The transition to interacting with your computer on the command line can be a little jarring at first if you’re accustomed to working in an environment dominated by windows, cursors, buttons, and other GUI pleasantries. Really, though, these graphical features are often just façades for functionality that can be achieved with more flexibility and speed […]
Smithsonian American Art Museum invites web and software developers (individuals or teams) to create concept prototypes for part or all of a new digital interpretive solution for the museum’s Luce Foundation Center. Luce Foundation Center Hackathon Tickets, Washington – Eventbrite.
A spider (or ‘crawler’ or ‘bot’) is a program that downloads a page from the Internet, saves some or all of the content, extracts links to other webpages, then retrieves and processes those in turn…Here we will develop a surprisingly simple Bash script to explore and visualize a tiny region of the WorldCat Identities database. […]
The New York Public Library is hiring a Director of Digital Initiatives and Services as part of a senior team responsible for the digital strategy and customer service across the NYPL. Apply here.
The DePaul University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist. View job posting here.
Spotlight on the Digital is a co-design project which is exploring barriers to the discovery of digitised resources. To this end we have been drawing up a list of useful literature surrounding these topics. We hope that you might be able to help us by adding to the list as we feel the crowd will […]
The Wheaton College Library is recruiting a Digital Asset Curator. Read Full Post Here
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The Getty Research Institute is recruiting a Digital Humanities Specialist. Read Full Post Here
Today, we are quite happy to announce a series of 4 2-day workshops addressing this very topic: “Building an Accessible Future.” This 2-day workshop — repeated 4 times in different geographical regions — is where humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals can learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies. We are […]
