From the announcement: If you’re an Open Culture old timer, you know the work of EmperorTigerstar–a Youtuber who specializes (to quote myself) “in documenting the unfolding of world historical events by stitching together hundreds of maps into timelapse films”… This week, the map animator released The History of Europe: Every Year. In ten minutes, he takes us from The […]
From the ad: The California State Polytechnic University, Pomona University Library is seeking a dynamic and innovative librarian to play a leadership role in planning, implementing, and supporting digital collections and services including the coordinating and functioning of Bronco Scholar, the university’s institutional repository; providing vision and direction for all aspects of the Library’s website; […]
From the ad: The Digital Resources Librarian works collaboratively with the Head of Special Collections and Archives to create, maintain, and promote UMW Libraries’ digital collections and services, including creating policies and usage guidelines, planning and implementing workflows, and overseeing quality control. Under the supervision of the Head of Special Collections and Archives, this librarian […]
From the ad: The Vassar College Libraries seek a collaborative, entrepreneurial, and experienced professional for the position of digital library developer. We are looking for a creative problem-solver with a passion for libraries who enjoys the design, development, and implementation of technical solutions that will bring our digital scholarship and library technology services to new […]
From the ad: Curtin University has, in cooperation with UNESCO, established a Chair in Cultural Heritage and Visualisation. The purpose of the Chair is to promote an integrated system of research, training, information and documentation on virtual heritage sites and facilitate collaboration between high-level, internationally-recognized researchers and teaching staff of the University and other institutions […]
Interested in learning new ways to gather content from the open web and to share it with your students, colleagues, and scholarly communities? On October 18, the Berkeley Center for New Media and the University of California Davis Library will host two workshops on PressForward (http://pressforward.org/), a free, open-source WordPress tool that facilitates the easy […]
Nearly 10 years ago, IMLS partnered with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to launch the Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant program. Over the last decade, this program has provided seed money to projects that have had a significant impact on the digital tools and services offered by libraries and museums…. We are thrilled to […]
The Educopia Institute has released a set of six Guidance Briefs on the curation and preservation of electronic theses and dissertations as part of their ETDplus project. These Guidance Briefs have been authored by the ETDplus project team as short (3-4 page) “how-to” oriented briefs that will help ETD/IR programs build and nurture supportive relationships with […]
From the ad: The Department of English at Miami University invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, effective August 2017. We are seeking candidates whose primary research, scholarship, and/or creative practice is in digital humanities and/or digital studies, with the ability to contribute to the intersections of two or more […]
From the post: DARIAH recently released a report on open access publishing of research data in the humanities. It is part of DARIAH’s Humanities at Scale project (HaS). As an output of work package 7 the report is a first step in the design process of an Open Humanities Data Platform, which will be the […]
