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CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: International Data Curation Conference, Feb 24-27, 2014, San Francisco

*************************************************************** “Commodity, catalyst or change-agent? Data-driven transformations in research, education, business & society” 24-27 February 2014 Omni San Francisco Hotel, California Street, San Francisco, USA *************************************************************** #idcc14 Call for Papers The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) brings together data and information creators, managers, users, researchers, and teachers. The IDCC14 Programme Committee invites submissions to the […]

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Job Announcements, News

Job: Tenure Track Assistant Professor of History (Digital Humanities) (IUPUI)

The Department of History at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) seeks a tenure-track assistant or associate professor in Digital Humanities, to begin August 1, 2014. We are looking for a scholar with a strong academic background in historical research. Period and area of specialization are open. Ph.D. required by August 1, 2014. http://www.digitalhistorians.org/2013/08/20/tenure-track-assistant-professor-of-digital-humanities-iupui/

Job Announcements, News

Job: Technology Specialist, Digital Public Library of America

The Digital Public Library of America (http://dp.la) seeks a Technology Specialist to join its growing team and to further DPLA’s mission to bring together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and make them freely available to all. A belief in this mission and the drive to accomplish it over time in a collaborative spirit both […]

Announcements, News

Launch: Visual Culture of the American Civil War

The historical record of the American Civil War includes a vast amount of visual material—photographs, illustrated news periodicals, comic publications, individually-published prints, almanacs, political cartoons, illustrated envelopes, trade cards, greeting cards, sheet music covers, money, and more. The era’s visual media heralded an unprecedented change in the production and availability of pictorial media in everyday […]

News, Reports

Report: Report and data from SCI’s survey on career prep and graduate education

I am delighted to announce the release of a report, executive summary, data, and slides from the Scholarly Communication Institute’s recent study investigating perceptions of career preparation provided by humanities graduate programs. The study focused on people with advanced degrees in the humanities who have pursued alternative academic careers. Everything is CC-BY, so please read, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Four P’s of Digital Project Outreach

Sheila Brennan, Associate Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, shares her cheat sheet from talks she gave on the four P’s of digital project outreach at the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ meeting and the recent One Week | One Tool summer institute. The […]