Today, we are quite happy to announce a series of 4 2-day workshops addressing this very topic: “Building an Accessible Future.” This 2-day workshop — repeated 4 times in different geographical regions — is where humanists, librarians, information scientists, and cultural heritage professionals can learn about technologies, design standards, and accessibility issues associated with the use of digital technologies. We are…

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Ithaka S+R is launching a new training course starting in January 2014, Sustaining Digital Resources, specifically designed for leaders of digital projects who are developing sustainability plans for the digital resources they have created.   Our focus is not on the technical aspects of preservation, but encourages participants to define the longer-range goals for their projects,…

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The American University in Cairo is recruiting a Digital Collections Archivist. Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The Digital Collections Archivist plays a leadership role in digital initiatives, including building collections of digitized and born-digital archival materials, and facilitating access to those collections. The position holder reports to the University Archivist and supervises the RBSCL’s…

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Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology – Deadline Extended to October 1 Digital technologies are driving important changes in archaeology.  Despite the increasing acceptance of digital technology in daily life, however, determining how to assess digital scholarship has proved difficult: many universities remain unsure about how to evaluate digital work along side more traditional…

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