Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation. Your online visualization options are limited when you don’t know how to program. The Miso Project, a collaboration between The Guardian andBocoup, is an effort to lighten the barrier to entry. While the goal is to build a toolkit that makes visualization easier and faster, the first […]
People Mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project – White Rose Research Online. Manual quality assurance (QA) of digitised content is typically fallible and can result in collections that are marred by a variety of quality and access issues. Poor storage conditions, technology obsolescence and other unforeseen problems can also leave digital objects in […]
Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library seeks a knowledgeable, resourceful, and collaborative individual for the position of Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The Project Librarian will coordinate activities for the proposed, multi-year grant project, North Carolina Newspapers. In this project, the University Library will lead a collaborative effort […]
APPLICATIONS ANALYST. As a member of the Web Unit in the University Library’s Systems Department, the Applications Analyst provides applications programming, Web development expertise, and technical support for the UNC Library. The primary purpose of this position is to work with content creators to meaningfully express their content in a content management system (CMS). In […]
Hurry–Send us Your Ideas for Digital Preservation 2012, July 24-26 For the first time we are opening the call for proposals for broad participation. Any organization with an interest in digital preservation can propose ideas for potential inclusion in the meeting. We are specifically seeking proposals for posters, 5-minute “lightning talks” and tool demonstrations. Topics of […]
Google Fusion Tables (GFT) is a freely accessible tool for hosting and managing data tables, as well as creating visualizations and maps online. See the GFT tour and also theGFT Help Page. Requires a free Google account (use a regular Google account; avoid using a limited-access Google Apps account issued by an old school). Goal of this […]
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CLIR is now accepting applications for six two-year postdoctoral fellowships in social science and science data curation to begin this summer. Review of applications begins May 1; applications will be accepted through June 30, 2012. The new fellows will be placed at Indiana University, Lehigh University, McMaster University, Purdue University, UCLA, and the University of Michigan. […]
LearnDST.richmond.edu | . LearnDST is an instructional tool for creative people interested in learning the 5-step process (writing, recording, searching, producing, and publishing) of digital storytelling. It was developed to meet the “just-in-time” training needs required to create digital stories in the context of IT fluency. Learn more about digital storytelling (DST) here and learn how DST […]
[Humanist] 25.891 jobs at Stanford and at Colorado-Boulder. Description The Literary Lab in the English Department seeks to fill a 75-100% FTE, one-year, fixed-term position (with possible renewal) in Digital Humanities and Computational Criticism, starting September 1, 2012. This position reports directly to the Faculty Director of the Lit Lab. The candidate is responsible for […]
