The Journal of Electronic Publishing (JEP) invites reflections and reportage on enduring, emerging and potential measures of publication value. We expect such discussions will be rooted in the publishing context (of value to whom, for whom?) and will address both short-comings and usefulness of the metrics under discussion. While we anticipate that our contributors will…
The Librarian for Digital Initiatives and Scholarship will establish and grow a dynamic program to support new models of scholarship. S/he will foster the successful adoption and application of digital approaches to teaching, learning, and research, will develop sustainable and scalable digital resources, and will explore emerging and existing technologies which enable the use of…
Bokeh, a Python library by Continuum Analytics, helps you visualize your data on the web. Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library for large datasets that natively uses the latest web technologies. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of Protovis/D3, while delivering high-performance interactivity over large data…
Whittier College, a 4-year liberal arts college in Southern California seeks to hire its first digital scholar. This dynamic and enthusiastic candidate will help create and manage a newly remodeled collaborative digital workspace to be housed in the campus Library. The digital scholar will guide a team of faculty, students and technology specialists to support…
The CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships are intended to support and stimulate historical research in the two pilot areas of medieval European culture and the First World War, by facilitating access to key archives, specialist knowledge and collections in CENDARI host institutions. The CENDARI Transnational Access programme is financed by the European Union. In particular, the…
The Department of Media Culture at the College of Staten Island (CSI) invites applications for a tenure-track position in Design and Digital Media at the rank of Assistant Professor beginning Fall 2014. Specialization in Animation, Motion Graphics, Gaming and/or Mobile Media is preferred. Successful candidates should have a strong teaching record with an ability to…
The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois has received an Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a project entitled, “Workset Creation For Scholarly Analysis: Prototyping Project” (WCSA). More information about the Prime Award project is available from http://worksets.htrc.illinois.edu. The overall goal of this project is to develop new tools…
Applications are now being accepted for the third Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at Northeastern University, April 30-May 2, 2014. Visit the Institute Web site (http://dhcuration.org/institute) to complete an application byJanuary 31, 2014. Workshops are limited to 20 participants, and applicants will be notified regarding acceptance in mid-February. Read Full Post Here
For the Code4Lib 2014 Conference, 9 scholarships have been sponsored to promote diversity. Each scholarship will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs and conference fees for a qualified attendee to attend the 2014 Code4Lib Conference, which will be held in Raleigh, North Carolina, from March 24 – 27, 2014. Read Full Post Here
Following a total of five successful sessions on network analysis in the historical disciplines at Sunbelt 2013 in Hamburg, we invite papers which integrate social network analysis methods and historical research methods and reflect on the added value of their methodologies. Topics could cover (but are not limited to) network analyses of correspondences, social movements,…