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Job: Tenure-Track Position in Digital Humanities at California State University, Northridge

From the posting: California State University, Northridge seeks candidates for a tenure-track assistant professor specializing in Digital Humanities skills (e.g. Mapping, Network Analysis, Data Visualization, Data Mining, Data literacy, Digital Scholarly editing). Secondary interests may include: Social Media Studies, Popular Cultural Studies, Computational Linguistics, Elementary Education, Russian Studies, Modern China Studies, Sustainability Studies. Source: Tenure-Track […]

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Resource: An Introduction to Unix

From the post: I took programming in high school, but I never took to it. This, I strongly believe, is because it wasn’t taught right—and teaching it right means starting at the beginning, with unix. The reason for this is three-fold: (1) it gives you a deeper sense of how a high-level computer works (which […]

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Resource: DPLA Metadata Analysis: Part 1 – Basic stats on subjects

From the post: One a recent long flight (from Dubai back to Dallas) I spent some time working with the metadata dataset that the Digital Public Library of American’s (DPLA) provides on its site. I was interested in finding out the following pieces of information. What is the average number and standard deviation of subjects-per-record […]

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Job: Digital Scholarship Editor, Brown University

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Editor is a grant-funded position in the Brown University Library designed to extend Brown’s capabilities as a central force in advancing new forms and methods of scholarly communication.  The Digital Scholarship Editor will play an important role in an effort to bring together key technological, organization, and academic policy […]

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Job: Wayback Machine Senior Engineer, The Internet Archive

From the announcement: We are looking for a smart, collaborative and resourceful engineer to help develop the next version of the Wayback Machine. The ideal candidate will possess a desire to work collaboratively with a small internal team and a large, vocal and active user community; demonstrating independence, creativity, initiative and technological savvy, in addition […]

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Report: Mallet past present and future

From the post: There was a conversation on Twitter about the current state of Mallet. My goal for Mallet is that it should do a few things very well. Future development will focus on making the process of using machine learning easier and more informative. Also, be sure to use the current GitHub version. Before discussing […]

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Job: Engagement and Outreach Manager Yale

From the posting: Conceives, produces and delivers communications and outreach efforts to support Digital Humanities projects on campus. Primary responsibility for print and electronic communications about the Yale Digital Humanities Lab, and uses expertise in communications, outreach, public relations, or a similar field to communicate effectively with students, faculty, journalists, and the public at large. […]

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Resouce: Adventures in Converting Subversion to Git

From the resource: While the Scholars’ Lab was founded in 2006, we manage a lot of projects that had their roots in the eText Center in the late 1990s. These projects have lived through the numerous “best practices” of the various eras, many still bearing the marks of those bygone eras (you see a lot of […]

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Announcement: DH Awards 2014 Results

From the announcement: The winners of the DH Awards 2014 are as follows. Once ‘accidental’ (and not so accidental) duplicates were removed there were 2117 ballots cast by members of the public over two weeks voting for one or more of the categories. Source: DH Awards 2014 Results | Digital Humanities Awards

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Report: Data on the Web Best Practices

From the working draft: This document provides best practices related to the publication and usage of data on the Web designed to help support a self-sustaining ecosystem. Data should be discoverable and understandable by humans and machines. Where data is used in some way, whether by the originator of the data or by an external […]