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Job Announcements, News

Job: Director, Georgia HomePLACE at University System of Georgia

From the posting: Serves as the primary liaison between the Digital Library of Georgia and the state’s public libraries. Oversees the Georgia HomePLACE (Providing Library and Archives Collections Electronically) project and provides support in planning, budgeting, scheduling, facilitating, reporting and publicizing HomePLACE collaborative digitization projects. Read More Source: Director, Georgia HomePLACE at University System of […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital and Media Archivist at University of Wisconsin–Madison

From the posting: Principal duties: Manage born digital collections: working with library and campus partners to ingest, preserve, describe and make available archival materials in digital form; identifying digital media to be added to the Archives’ collections; identifying/testing software to help with born digital materials; overseeing the Archive’s Archive-It site…Read More Source

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director of Copyright and Scholarly Communications at Duke University

From the posting: The Director of Copyright & Scholarly Communications will provide leadership and coordinate scholarly communication activities for Duke University. Working with library colleagues, s/he will offer training and consultative services for the university community about intellectual property issues and their impact on the nature and conduct of scholarly inquiry and instruction.  S/he will […]

News, Resources

Resource: Introducing Pypothesis, Part 1: hypothes.is to MarkDown

From the post: I’ve been working and writing a lot lately about using the web annotation tool hypothes.is for public scholarship. It has a lot of cool uses ― not only the collaborative annotation of individual web pages, but also the creation of a public research notebook, and the possibility of linking hypothes.is with other […]

News, Resources

Resource: Macroetym: A Command-Line Tool for Macro-Etymological Textual Analysis

From the post: I’m proud to introduce macroetym, a command-line tool for macro-etymological textual analysis, which is now available for download with the Python package manager, pip. It’s a complete rewrite of The Macro-Etymological Analyzer, the web tool for macro-etymological analysis I wrote a few years ago, first described in this post, and presented at […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: How Extraordinary Partnerships with the Arts and Humanities are Transforming the Way We Think, Work, and Live

From the CFP: This edited volume seeks to shift national conversations about the “crisis” in the arts and humanities to one that bespeaks of “rise” and “renaissance.” Toward this goal, writers are encouraged to portrait thinkers and doers of our time (in the US)—individuals, groups, organizations, businesses, and fields not traditionally associated with the arts […]

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News, Reports

Report: Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics and Society

From the announcement: The Council for Big Data, Ethics and Society, an interdisciplinary working group established in 2014, has just this week issued a report titled “Perspectives on Big Data, Ethics and Society” summarizing and synthesizing much of their thinking over the past two years. The report can be downloaded here: http://bdes.datasociety.net/council-output/perspectives-on-big-data-ethics-and-society/  

News, Resources

Resource: Oral History Digital Toolbox: My Current Favorites

From the post: Here are some of my favorite digital tools that may prove useful for core aspects of the oral history process.  I will be adding to this on a continuous basis, adding new tools and categories of tools periodically, so stay tuned. Collection Management, Exhibit, User Experience OHMS (enhancing online access, indexing, transcript synchronization, metadata, […]