Job: University of Virginia Scholars’ Lab
Scholars’ Lab is seeking a digital humanities software engineer to join its Research and Development group. View job here.
Category: News
CFParticipation: Test Exhibit Builder!
The Omeka team is preparing the next generation of the Exhibit Builder plugin, and we’d like to ask early adopters to help test a beta version. Read full post here.
Announcement: Celebrate 20 Years of RRCHNM
Plans are taking shape for the upcoming conference to mark the 20th anniversary of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, November 14-15, 2014. Read the full post here.
CFParticipation: XQuery Summer Institute
The XQuery Summer Institute at Vanderbilt University is aimed at archivists, librarians, professors, and students who have experience marking up texts in XML, but do not yet know how to work computationally with those documents. Our Institute aspires to recruit twelve members of the digital humanities community and help them to get “unstuck” and working […]
Job: Associate Dean for Libraries Information Technology
The Western Michigan University Libraries are recruiting a Associate Dean for Libraries Information Technology. View job here.
Job: Data Curation Fellow at Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania State University Libraries seek a Social Sciences Data Curation Fellow to collaborate with librarians, technologists, and researchers, primarily in the social sciences, on building out a program of services for the lifecycle management of social science research data. View job here.
CFParticipation: Working with Text in a Digital Age » 2014 Workshop
As a follow-on to Working with Text in a Digital Age, an NEH-funded Institute for Advanced Technologies in the Digital Humanities and in collaboration with the Open Philology Project at the University of Leipzig, Tufts University announces a two-day workshop on publishing textual data that is available under an open license, that is structured for […]
CFParticipation: DH Now Editor-at-Large
We here at Digital Humanities Now invite you to become part of our Editors-at-Large team! We are recruiting new and returning Editors-at-Large for rotations throughout Spring 2014. Editors-at-Large monitor the work of the digital humanities community by reviewing our aggregated RSS feeds from blogs, websites, and Twitter, as well as your own networks, to nominate content for distribution through DHNow and […]
Announcement: LITA Free webinar with ALA President Barbara Stripling
ALA President Barbara Stripling’s Winter Webinar series “Building Community Through Making,” featuring nationally recognized speakers and innovative library leaders, begins on Monday, December 16, 2013, from 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. CST. Read full post here.
Resource: An OCR normalizer for English texts after 1700
I’m sharing the code I use to correct OCR in my own research. I’ve shared parts of this before, but this is the first time I’ve made any effort to package it so that it will run on other people’s machines. If you’ve got Python 3.x, you should be able to clone this github repository, […]