From the CFP: This event is a follow-up to the Archives Unleashed datathon series – the first was held in March 2016 in Toronto and the second was held in June 2016 Washington DC. We’re continuing the datathon program in 2017, and are excited to bring this program to the Internet Archive…By bringing together a […]
The International Digital Humanities Training Network / ADHO Training Group is sponsoring a conference, “Innovations in Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Local, National, and International Training” on August 8, 2017. From the CFP: Only recently have the digital humanities begun to take firm root in the humanities curriculum, with institutions around the world now committing significant resources toward […]
From the CFP: The human and social sciences are experiencing an influx of quantitative methods which try to deal with the questions of meaning, at the centre of semiotic reflection…This special issue of Semiotica seeks to present studies that employ or explore quantitative measures to reshape the ways in which we may study what is meaningful. […]
Lafayette College is recruiting a Digital Library Developer. From the ad: Lafayette College Library seeks a talented and passionate developer to lead the design, management, and development of our digital library services…The person selected for this position will collaborate with other community members around the nation and beyond with the aim of extending and refining […]
From the resource: Want to make a visual timeline, but don’t have the time to draw one manually? Or maybe you have some documents, but you’re not sure if the events they depict form a compelling timeline? TimeLineCurator quickly and automatically extracts temporal references in freeform text to generate a visual timeline…Already using TimelineJS? TimeLineCurator […]
Journal 18 is publishing an issue on Digital Mapping & 18th-century Visual, Material, and Built Cultures. From the CFP: In this issue of Journal18, we seek to feature current scholarship that relies on the analytical power provided by digital mapping interfaces for the study of visual, material, and built cultures during the long eighteenth century. How […]
From the post: The Center for Ancient Middle Eastern Landscapes (CAMEL Lab) at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago would like to announce that a substantial subset of its digital holdings of maps and geospatial data are now available for online public search and download. Read full post here.
UCLA is recruiting a Head of the Digital Library Program. From the ad: Reporting to the Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Research and Development, the Head of the Digital Library Program works with the Digital Library Architect and other senior departmental managers to establish the vision, set strategic goals and identify projects and priorities for […]
The University of Houston is recruiting qualified individuals for several positions: An English Librarian “with knowledge of or experience in the study of digital humanities.” A Digital Scholarship Librarian A Data Services Librarian The full job ads can be found here, here, and here respectively.
From the announcement: While the adage goes that nothing ever disappears from the internet, anyone who created a Geocities site, or used their old university servers (or forgot to pay to renew domain registration) knows that more often than we’re led to believe, stuff goes away and we can’t find it anymore. The Wayback Machine has […]
