Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Georgia State

Georgia State University Library seeks a collegial, entrepreneurial, and hands-on Digital Scholarship Librarian skilled at using technology to support interdisciplinary digital projects in a wide array of subject areas, including but not limited to the digital humanities. Read full ad here.

Resources

Resource: Making Comics as Scholarship

For the last few years, I’ve been collaborating with Roger Whitson on editing Comics as Scholarship, a special issue for Digital Humanities Quarterly. The open-access issue is now available and may be of interest to anyone experimenting with alternatives to the monolithic scholarly essay. The collection includes six comics written and designed by scholars as […]

Job Announcements

Job: STEM Librarian Oregon State University

From the ad: Oregon State University Libraries and Press (OSULP) seeks applications for the position of STEM Instruction and Outreach Librarian. This is a full-time (1.0 FTE), 12-month, tenure-track Assistant Professor position reporting to the Head of the Teaching and Engagement Department. The successful candidate will focus on developing library services and programming to support […]

Resources, Uncategorized

Resource: FASTI, A Database of Archaeological Excavations Since the Year 2000

Between 1946 and 1987 the International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) published the Fasti Archaeologici. It contained very useful summary notices of excavations throughout the area of the Roman Empire. However, spiraling costs and publication delays combined to render it less and less useful. AIACs board of directors thus decided in 1998 to discontinue the […]

Job Announcements

Job: Distinguished Chair in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement, Dartmouth College

From the ad: Dartmouth College invites applications for an Associate or Full Professor in Digital Humanities and Social Engagement (DHSE). We seek a colleague of international stature to play a foundational role in developing the DHSE cluster. This hire will play an important part in shaping the group’s agenda, including its budget, programming, and infrastructure. Read […]

Resources

Resource: Yahoo News Feed Dataset Available

The Yahoo News Feed dataset is a collection based on a sample of anonymized user interactions on the news feeds of several Yahoo properties, including the Yahoo homepage, Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Movies, and Yahoo Real Estate. The dataset stands at a massive ~110B lines (1.5TB bzipped) of user-news item interaction data, […]

CFPs & Conferences

CFP: Sixteenth Century Society & Conference

Carrie Anderson and Catherine Walsh are looking to put a DH panel together for this conference. The session, “Visualizing the Early Modern World in Digital Space and Time,” invites digital projects—at any stage—that attempt to imagine the ways in which aspects of the early modern world can be visualized in digital spaces. We are particularly interested […]

Announcements

Announcement: Apps, Maps & Models, A Symposium on Digital Pedagogy and Research

This one-day symposium will examine how digital tools prompt new approaches to teaching and research in art and architectural history, as well as in archaeology and visual studies. Databases, mapping, modeling, animations, and websites are also transforming the ways in which scholars and museums can communicate information to the public. Above all, digital tools stimulate […]

CFPs & Conferences

CFP: How to Do Things With Millions of Words

How to Do Things With Millions of Words will bring together an interdisciplinary group of researchers for an intensive two-day meditation on the theoretical and technical challenges pertaining to macro-scale textual analysis. Participants at all levels of technical experience are warmly welcome! We aim to convene a robust, diverse conversation that will engage everyone from […]