Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Projects Lab Manager, University of North Texas

From the announcement: The Digital Projects Unit supports the UNT Libraries with guidance and digital services including imaging, archival storage of electronic files, metadata development, and other activities as needed. Within the Unit, four full-time Digital Projects Lab staff members manage a large number of concurrent projects and employ 25 part-time student assistants to prepare […]

News, Resources

Resource: Getting Started in Activist Digital Humanities

Recently I received an email from an undergraduate student who expressed frustration with what is commonly being represented as the digital humanities. The student had found my name through doing some research on the intersections of activism and the digital humanities, and asked if I could provide some references that could get her oriented to […]

Job Announcements, News

Opportunity: DHSI | Digital Humanities Summer Institute

From the announcement: Courses for DHSI 2016 are starting to take shape, and we’re really excited about our coming offerings! Anticipated offerings are listed below. Courses and their scheduling are TENTATIVE at the moment. Thanks to overwhelming response from our community and the generous sponsorship of our partners, we’ll have a number of additional courses […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: System Administrator/Digital Preservation Professional at University of Alaska

  From the announcement: Join the team at the Elmer E. Rasmuson Library at UAF, the largest library in Alaska! We are seeking a Systems Administrator/Digital Preservation Professional who appreciates the needs of an academic environment, enjoys working in diverse cultural settings and being part of a dynamic team of friendly, knowledgeable and dedicated individuals. […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: NeDIMAH launches NeMO

From the announcement: The European Science Foundation Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDiMAH) has recently launched the NeDiMAH Methods Ontology (NeMO). NeMO is a comprehensive ontological model of scholarly practice in the arts and humanities and was developed by the Digital Curation Unit (DCU), ATHENA RC, in collaboration with the NeDiMAH […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

Bucknell University, with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, will host its second annual digital scholarship conference on November 6-8, 2015. The theme of the conference is “Collaborating Digitally: Engaging Students in Public Scholarship.” Find out more: CFP: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

Announcements, News

Announcements: MITH partners on $1.25 Million Mellon Grant

A $1.25 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund research, education and training at the intersections of digital humanities and African American studies at the University of Maryland. The grant will help to prepare a diverse community of scholars and students whose work will both broaden the reach of the digital humanities […]

News, Resources

Resource: “Lost Friends” Database

The Louisiana State University Libraries has contributed digital reproductions of more than 330 “Lost Friends” advertisements—ads searching for loved ones lost in slavery— to a database as part of The Historic New Orleans Collection. The ads appeared in the Southwestern Christian Advocate between November 1879 and December 1880. Search the database here.