Resource: The Sourcecaster
From the post: I recently launched the sourcecaster with James Baker as a community resource to guide use of the command line to meet common challenges working with digital primary sources. Find out more: the sourcecaster
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CFProposals: DHQ Special Issue: Creative Pedagogical Approaches in Information Design
From the CFP: Digital Humanities Quarterly invites submissions for a special issue on creative pedagogical approaches in the instruction of information visualization. Contributions are invited on methodologies, tools, and resources that practitioners have used to teach any facet of information visualization, which may include (but is not limited to) best practices in design, the use […]
Resource: A Novice’s Intro to XSLT
From the post: In a post at the ACRL TechConnect Blog, Eric Phetteplace (California College of Arts) provides a tutorial on eXtensible Stylesheet Language Transformations (XSLT). In the tutorial, Phetteplace gives his description of what XSLT is and how it can be used, and offers a step-by-step method for a MODS-to-Dublin-Core metadata transformation, including links […]
Resource: hypothesisr: R, hypothes.is, and Automating GitHub Issue Generation
From the post: The web annotation layer hypothes.is has a relatively simple API for searching, creating, reading, updating, and deleting annotations. As a personal coding exercise, I just completed an R wrapper for interacting with this API: hypothesisr You can read about the package’s capabilities more in-depth on its GitHub page. However, in this post […]
Job: Head of Technology, Beinecke Library Digital Services Unit at Yale
From the posting: Reporting to the Director of Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, the Head of Technology is a key member of the library’s senior management, responsible for providing vision, strategic direction, & administrative leadership for all aspects of Beinecke’s IT operations. The library seeks a candidate with a keen perspective on the challenges […]
Announcement: Open Context & Carleton Prize for Archaeological Visualization
From the announcement: Increasingly, archaeology data are being made available openly on the web. But what do these data show? How can we interrogate them? How can we visualize them? How can we re-use data visualizations? We’d like to know. This is why we have created the Open Context and Carleton University Prize for Archaeological […]
CFP: 2016 Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities
From the CFP: We invite contributions for the 2016 Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities. This will be a one day workshop taking place as part of IEEE VIS 2016 in Baltimore, MD. http://ieeevis.org/ The purpose of this workshop is to propose new research directions in visualization for the digital humanities, to familiarize the […]
CFP: Exploring the “Humanity” in the Digital Humanities: Africana/Black Studies’ Perspectives on the Digital Humanities
From the CFP: African American Studies and Research Center is interested in exploring the relationship between the digital humanities and Africana/Black epistemological frameworks that ask, “What Does It Mean to Be Human?” We seek papers and panels on topics related to our understanding of digital humanities. Topics may include, but are not limited to: Digital […]
Job: Digital Liberal Arts Postdoctoral Fellowship
From the job announcement: Middlebury College invites applications for a Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Digital Liberal Arts, from August 1, 2016 through June 30, 2017. We welcome candidates who hold, or will hold by July 2016, a PhD in any discipline relevant to the Digital Humanities. The Postdoctoral Fellow is a key position in the […]
Report: Cloud-Based Big Data Management and Analytics for Scholarly Resources: Current Trends, Challenges and Scope for Future Research
From the Report: With the shifting focus of organizations and governments towards digitization of academic and technical documents, there has been an increasing need to use this reserve of scholarly documents for developing applications that can facilitate and aid in better management of research. In addition to this, the evolving nature of research problems has […]