Job: Programmer/Analyst II, U. Nebraska
Responsible for server-side programming and developing web applications and associated documentation to support research in the humanities. View ad here.
Category: News
Job: Digital Initiatives Librarian, Newberry Library
Reporting to the Manager of Digital Initiatives and Services, the Digital Initiatives Librarian has the technical ability and knowledge to assist in the development, implementation, and management of the Library’s growing digital collections, publications, and resources. View ad here.
Job: Asst. Prof, Digital Studies and Social Justice, U. of Michigan
DIGITAL STUDIES. The University of Michigan’s Department of American Culture and the Residential College seek qualified applicants for a jointly-appointed tenure-track assistant professor in the area of Digital Studies and Social Justice. This is a university-year appointment with an expected start date of September 1, 2015. View ad here.
Funding: Funded PhD, spatial technology and NE Archaeology, FH Mainz
The position is funded by the DFG/ANR project TEXTE LSEM (2014 – 2017) investigating the application of Semantic Web and related technologies to support archaeological and philological research in reconstructing the historic geography of Mesopotamia in the 2nd mill. BC. Full details: http://bit.ly/textelsem
Job: Project Director, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data(NACJD), University of Michigan/ICPSR
.entry-header The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan seeks to appoint a senior information and research scientist to direct the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd). View ad here. .entry-content
Resource: Verification Handbook for user-generated content
The Verification Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for journalists and aid responders, which provides step-by-step guidelines for using user-generated content (UGC) during emergencies. While it primarily targets journalists and aid providers, the Handbook can be used by anyone. It’s advice and guidance are valuable whether you are a news journalist, citizen reporter, relief responder, […]
Resource: Costume Core, An application profile for cataloging costume
Costume Core is a new application profile, building on existing metadata standards to create a specification for cataloging and encoding costume. This specification is being tested to consider its application for an inter-institutional digital resource for the study of the history of dress, HistoricDress.org. Source: Costume Core | An application profile for cataloging costume.
CFP: Beyond the Proto-Monograph: New Models for the Dissertation
A new section of the Mediacommons project known as #alt-academy is dedicated to “Graduate Training in the 21st Century.” Edited by Melissa Dalgleish (York University) and Daniel Powell (University of Victoria), the first “cluster” is exploring “how the prototypical graduate project in the humanities—the dissertation—is changing in the face of the digital turn, shifting job markets, and […]
CFP: “Crossing Borders,” Eastern Sociological Society
The “Crossing Borders” theme invites discussion of the social construction and social impacts of borders dividing individuals, groups, and nations. It challenges us to explore how borders are created, how they can change, and the complex processes shaping whether, and how, they can be crossed – and with what consequences. View CFP Here.
Postdoc: Rice University Humanities Research Center
The Humanities Research Center (HRC) will award one postdoctoral fellowship for a one-year appointment to participate in the 2015-16 Sawyer Seminar working group on “Platforms of Knowledge in a Wide Web of Worlds: Production, Participation, and Politics.” View Ad Here.