New resources on sustainability for digital content : Digitisation and Content Programme. A new video discusses the work on sustainability of digital content that the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and ITHAKA S+R have been doing over the last few years and new resources now available. Highlights include five things sustainable projects do and a tool […]
MIT Lincoln Laboratory: Employment: Job Board. Job Title: Digital Preservation Archivist State: Massachusetts City: Lexington Description: Digital Preservation Archivist Position Summary: MIT Lincoln Laboratory has pioneered in advanced electronics since its origin in 1951 as a Federally Funded Research and Development Center of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Knowledge Services team is currently developing […]
How will national cultures survive in the digital age? Will they be subsumed in the centripetal pull of global monoculture? Or will counter-currents and hybrid combinations thrive in a transmedia world? 2012 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the establishment of RTÉ TV – Ireland’s public television network charged with broadcasting the nation to itself: ‘a […]
Working under the direction of the Head of Digital Library Initiatives, the Digital Projects Librarian manages a portfolio of digital library projects, providing the project management framework and technical know-how needed to complete projects successfully. S/he works in close collaboration with other librarians and archivists, metadata specialists, IT staff, scanning/digitization staff, external vendors, and partnering […]
This fully funded collaborative doctoral award is offered by REACT: Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technologies Hub. REACT is one of four knowledge exchange hubs awarded nationally as part of a £16 million investment by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for knowledge exchange projects between research academics, creative industry partners and […]
Prism is an experiment in visualizing many readings of a common set of texts, using concepts shared by its users–“the crowd.” While the Praxis Program itself makes an intervention in graduate training, Prism is an intervention in the concept of crowd-sourcing, which until now has mostly made fact-checkers and copy editors of the crowd. One of […]
TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and art historians. As a single point of entry to the virtual research environment, TextGridLab provides integrated access to specialized tools, services and content. TextGridRep is a long-term archive for research data in the humanities embedded in a grid infrastructure, which will ensure availability […]
The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.
Pomona College is looking for a talented individual to join our service oriented department of Information Technology Services as an Academic Applications Manager with special emphasis on support for the growing needs of the faculty. This position is part of the Instructional Services team and works in close relationship with faculty to develop, maintain, troubleshoot, […]
This position is located within the Department of New Media, in the Office of Education and Public Programs of the National Museum of American History. The purpose of this position is to plan digital outreach initiatives that further the Museum’s mission and goals; manage and contribute to the publication of the Museum’s blog, social media, […]
