Ball State University Libraries are recruiting a Digital Archivist for Manuscript Collections, whose duties will include engaging “in development, management, and promotion of digitization projects and digital resources of the unit and the University Libraries.” Read the full posting here
Researchers from the University of Massachusetts have launched a torrent site which allows academics to share papers and datasets. AcademicTorrents provides researchers with a reliable and decentralized platform to share their work with peers, as well as the rest of the world. The site currently indexes over 1.5 petabytes of data, including NASA’s map of […]
The AWMC is proud to announce the release of a series of geographically accurate, publicly accessible map tiles (http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/tiles/ ), suitable for use in nearly any web mapping application or GIS software suite. These tiles are hosted on Mapbox servers courtesy of ISAW, and are created by Ryan Horne from AWMC data produced by Richard Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Ryan Horne, Ross Twele, Audrey Jo, Ray Belanger, […]
The Rockefeller Archive Center invites applications from individuals who have completed their Ph.D.’s for a two-year post-doctoral research fellow position, to begin work in early spring, 2014. Read the full posting here.
The annual open DH Awards 2013 are now accepting nominations. Please nominate any resource you feel deserves to win in any of this year’s categories. Nominations will be open until 31 December 2013 (midnight GMT), voting will take place in January 2014. Read more here. .entry-content
The Center for Digital Learning + Research at Occidental College is currently offering a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship focused on digital scholarship. Thanks to the continued generosity of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Occidental’s CDLR will be hiring two fellows for terms beginning with the 2014-15 academic year. Read the full posting here.
The Postcolonial Digital Humanities (#dhpoco) engages postcolonial studies to address global issues relating to race, gender, class, sexuality, and disability within cultures of technology while bringing the activist praxis of the digital humanities to the work of postcolonial studies. Co-founders Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of #dhpoco and outline the […]
American History Now, a PressForward project of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, announces the launch of and invites participation in a special issue on the history of vinyl records. A collaborative project that will culminate in a curated volume, American History Now will publish the work of scholars, collectors, and enthusiasts […]
The College of Southern Nevada Library is recruiting a Digital Services Librarian. Read full post here.
CHI seeks to prioritise transformative and experimental approaches in the Humanities: the creation of drafts that might be elaborated and consummated by other researchers; or hypotheses that may or may not be proven or implemented. The emphasis is not on the finished product of research, but on the open process of search and experimentation. Read […]
