Announcements, News

Announcement: RRCHNM to Build Organizing Software for Digital Photographs

We are pleased to announce funding for a new project to develop a freely licensed and open-source software tool, called Tropy, which will allow archival researchers to collect and organize the digital photographs that they take in their research, associate metadata with those images, and export both photographs and metadata to other platforms. Generously funded by […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Gerda Henkel Postdoctoral Fellowship for Digital History

With the generous support of the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the German Historical Institute (GHI) and the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at the George Mason University (RRCHNM) invite applications for a 12-month postdoctoral fellowship in digital history. The fellowship will provide a unique opportunity for the recipient to develop an innovative research project […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Accessioning Archivist at Yale University

The Yale University Library (YUL) is seeking a Digital Accessioning Archivist for Yale Special Collections. This position will contribute to the development of best practices and workflows for accessioning born-digital material, undertake the hands-on work of disk imaging, train and supervise the work of student assistants and other staff, and make recommendations related to post-term digital […]

News, Reports

Report: Orphan Works and Mass Digitization

As the Supreme Court reaffirmed in 2012, facilitating the dissemination of creative expression is an important means of fulfilling the constitutional mandate to “promote the Progress of Science” through the copyright system. This Report addresses two circumstances in which the accomplishment of that goal may be hindered under the current law due to practical obstacles preventing […]

News, Reports

Report: Making Open Science a Reality

This report, Making Open Science a Reality reviews the progress in OECD countries in making the results of publicly funded research, namely scientific publications and research data openly accessible to researchers and innovators alike. The report i) reviews the policy rationale behind open science and open data; ii) discusses and presents evidence on the impacts […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Digital Humanities PhD Research at the British Library

The British Library is looking for university partners to co-supervise collaborative research projects that will draw on – and develop – aspects of digital scholarship. Funding is available from the Arts & Humanities Research Council’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships (CDP) programme, through which the Library works with UK university partners to deliver a bespoke PhD research and […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Assistant Professor at the University of Utah

The English Department at the University of Utah invites applications for a position in Digital Humanities at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor to begin Fall 2016. We are open to all fields in literary studies and all approaches to Digital Humanities. We are especially interested in candidates who wish to help shape an […]

News, Reports

Report: Lightning talk on Pleiades at NEH

Followers of the ISAW News Blog will have seen the recent piece on the award of an NEH grant for new work on the Pleiades gazetteer and the follow-up piece about my intended participation at a meeting of similarly funded project directors. NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities intends to post video of all the talks online, but meantime, here are words I read and the slides I showed […]