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Job Announcements, News

Job: Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion at Pepperdine University

Pepperdine University is recruiting a Librarian for Digital Publishing, Curation, and Conversion. From the ad: The Librarian works closely with special collections and university archives personnel to identify, research, and prioritize materials for ingest into digital collections, which are powered by CONTENTdm. Following best practices, the Librarian devises scanning workflows and metadata schema appropriate to […]

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Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian University of Minnesota

From the ad: The Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) provides strategic direction for the University of Minnesota Libraries in developing and sustaining new models of support for digital scholarship, primarily through coordination of the Digital Arts Sciences & Humanities (DASH) initiative. The DSL guides campus scholars on the integration of digital technologies and methodologies in research […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: That’s Not How Scholarship Works

We are currently seeking submissions for a proposed MLA 17 special session, “That’s Not How Scholarship Works: Exploring the Process of Multimodal Critical Making.” This session will gather an interdisciplinary group of scholars and editors who engage with critical making as scholarship to reveal their process: the post-it notes, sketches, planning, code experiments, and non-linear piecing together […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Archives Unleashed – Web Archive Datathon

This workshop (Washington DC, June 14 – 15), with the generous support of the National Science Foundation, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Internet Archive, Rutgers University, and the University of Waterloo, presents an opportunity to collaboratively unleash our web collections, exploring cutting-edge research tools while fostering a broad-based consensus on future directions in web […]

News, Resources

Resource: Unix Pipes for Exploring and Cleaning Data

Do you have a spreadsheet, JSON, or plain text file filled with data that you haven’t come to terms with? If you’re using Mac OSX, you already have a powerful tool at your disposal for exploring and cleaning a text-based data set. By using terminal commands, you can get a feel for an otherwise unwieldy […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Computational Literary Geography

The Textual Geographies project at the University of Notre Dame, in collaboration with the Text Mining the Novel project, solicits applications for a 12-month postdoctoral fellowship in computational literary geography. The fellow will pursue her or his own research agenda, participate in the intellectual life of the digital humanities community at Notre Dame, and collaborate on projects of […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: CAA & SAH Release Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural History

The College Art Association (CAA), working jointly with the Society of Architectural Historians (SAH), has released its Guidelines for the Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Art and Architectural History for Promotion and Tenure. The guidelines are the result of a Task Force convened by the two associations of ten members from the academic community with […]

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Announcement: Voting is Open, DH Awards 2015

DH Awards 2015 is open for voting at: http://dhawards.org/dhawards2015/voting/ until the end of 27 February 2016. Versions of this announcement in French, Japanese and Spanish are available from the website. Digital Humanities Awards are a set of entirely open annual awards run as a DH awareness raising activity. The awards are nominated and voted for entirely […]