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Job: Open Rank Professor / Program Director College Park, MD

From the ad: The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland seeks a dynamic scholar at the rank of advanced assistant, associate, or full professor with a proven record of conducting innovative research and teaching at the intersection of African American History & Culture and Digital Humanities to direct a major Andrew […]

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Resource: Single-Session Digital History Lesson Plans

As part of the Historical Teaching and Practice program, I [Kalani Craig] presented three easily adaptable digital-history lesson plans that work nicely in single 75-minute sessions. These handouts provide the basic structure of the lesson plans without the images produced by students in previous iterations of those activities. Access resource here.

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Resource: A Linked Data Journey, Proof of Concept

This is part two of my Linked Data Series. You can find the first post here. Linked Data is still a very abstract concept to many. My goal in this series is to demystify the notion. To that end I thought “wouldn’t it be cool to put Linked Data to practice, to build a proof-of-concept record”, […]

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Announcement: Emigrant City

NYPL Labs and the Irma and Paul Milstein Division of United States History, Local History and Genealogy are excited to announce the launch of Emigrant City, the Library’s newest, online participatory project. Emigrant City invites you to help transcribe recently digitized mortgage and bond record books from the Library’s collection of Emigrant Savings Bank records. […]

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Resource: Top Tips for Making Your Digital Resources Easier to Discover

Within many further and higher education institutions and their allied organisations there exists a wide-ranging, diverse group of libraries, archives and collections. The digitisation of the assets they contain for the purposes of teaching, learning and research is a sophisticated activity sector-wide. But digitisation is only the first part of the journey, with the effective […]

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Job: DPLA Engagement & Use Coordinator

From the ad: The Digital Public Library of America seeks an Engagement & Use Coordinator to help DPLA reach multiple audiences, and to make better and wider use of its large and growing open collection. This is a full-time position at DPLA’s headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts. The Engagement & Use Coordinator will work collaboratively with DPLA […]

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Job: Assistant Professor in Digital Media

From the ad: The School of Visual Arts and Design, College of Arts and Humanities, University of Central Florida seeks two assistant professors for research and teaching in digital media. These are nine-month, tenure-earning positions, the duties of which include teaching, research, and service. The anticipated start date is August 2016, pending the availability of […]

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Job: Assistant Professor – Media Culture and History

From the ad: The Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta invites applications for a tenure-track appointment at the rank of Assistant Professor in Media Culture and History, to begin 1 July 2016. Applications are welcome from candidates working in or across any temporal period and within any theoretical paradigm. We […]