Archive@NYU : Supporting Digital Humanities in the Library: Creating Sustainable and Scalable Services. As the digital humanities become a mainstream option for many scholars, libraries and presses have the chance to rethink our services. We must grasp how scholarly communication is changing, and partner with scholars to build services they need. This working session reports […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Head, Digital Initiatives at Ohio State University Libraries. The Ohio State University Libraries are recruiting a Head, Digital Initiatives. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The Ohio State University Libraries invites applications and nominations for the position of Head, Digital Initiatives to lead the evolution of digital library services and collections […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Digital and Archives/Special Collections Manager at University of San Diego Library. The University of San Diego Library is recruiting a Digital and Archives/Special Collections Manager. Here’s an excerpt from the ad (Job: IRC8302): Under the supervision of the University Archivist/Special Collections Librarian, the Digital and Archives/Special Collections Manager is responsible for creating […]
Call for participants: SCMS workshop on digital humanities and film/media studies | Miriam Posner’s Blog. Among those who care about such things, it’s become clear that there’s a bit of a divide between film and media studies, often thought to be primarily theoretical or historical, and digital humanities, which often emphasizes the importance of hacking […]
Scholars’ Lab. Today, the Scholars’ Lab is proud to announce the launch of Neatline, our set of Omeka plugins for hand-crafted geo-temporal visualization and interpretation. You can head right over to http://neatline.org/ to download the 1.0 software, see sample exhibits or play in the sandbox, and read more about the project, including news and history. Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps and narrative sequences […]
A Digital Asset Sustainability and Preservation Cost Bibliography « The Signal: Digital Preservation. Back in the early days of the NDIIPP program we had a series of cross-cutting initiatives that we called “affinity groups.” These groups addressed areas of interest such as “collection and selection,” “technical architecture” and “rights and restrictions” that cut across all the different […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Digital Initiatives Librarian at Cleveland State University Library. The Cleveland State University Library is recruiting a Digital Initiatives Librarian. Here’s an excerpt from the ad (requisition number: 0600871): Contributes to the creation and maintenance of the library’s digital initiatives. Coordinates the integration of metadata creation, use and practices throughout the library. Provides […]
It’s all about YoU(lysses) | modernist versions project. The Modernist Versions Project’s Year of Ulysses (YoU) initiative will introduce James Joyce’s masterpiece to its widest audience ever, provoke people to read it, support them as they do so, and bring this novel of the everyday back into everyday life. Thanks to the remarkable efforts of MVP associates […]
Flow | Call for Responses. The 2012 Flow Conference will resemble traditional academic meetings in name only: there will be no panels, no papers, and no plenary sessions. Instead, the event will feature a series of roundtables, each organized around a discussion question on contemporary issues in television/media culture and scholarship. Respondents are asked to […]
Digitization in the Real World highlights 34 cases of digital collection building in libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage institutions throughout North America. This book is written by practitioners for practitioners focusing on lessons learned from small to medium-sized digitization projects. Digitization in the Real World was edited by Kwong Bor Ng and Jason Kucsma. […]
