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CFPosters: Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation: An Action Assembly Biblioteca de Catalunya, November 18-20, 2013

The Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation (ANADP) II Action Assembly will align digital preservation efforts internationally between communities—including national libraries, academic libraries, public libraries, research centers, archives, corporations, and funding agencies.

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CFParticipation: DHThis

Using a Slashdot-style system of user engagement, DHThis gives registered users the opportunity to upvote and downvote articles and provide karma points that reward commenters that are helpful towards the community’s needs.

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Projects Specialist at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries

The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries are recruiting a Digital Projects Specialist. The successful candidate will have experience working with digital collections and digital tool development in an academic library setting, and have a familiarity with common programming, web development and/or database languages such as PHP, MySQL, XSLT, JSON, and Javascrip.

News, Resources

Resource: Open access edition of Manovich’s new book is now online

My publisher Bloomsbury Academic made available Open Access edition of my new book Software Takes Command. The edition contains complete text of the book. It uses a new digital publishing software from Issuu. This link will take you directly to the book (you may need to wait a few seconds before it loads): Software Takes Command […]

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CFP: Digital Humanities 2014

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) invites submissions of abstracts for its annual conference, on any aspect of the digital humanities. Read Full Post Here

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Resource: How did they make that?

Many  students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: Applications open for Five Solutions: Digital Sustainability for Historians

APPLICATIONS OPEN! Five Solutions to What? Historical scholarship is increasingly digital; and yet we do not have an agreed form of best practices for ensuring that digital scholarship lasts. Five Solutions is looking for five scholars able to outline a solution to the issues of sustainability now facing historians. Read Full Post Here

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Resource: “Slave Revolt in Jamaica, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative”

This animated thematic map narrates the spatial history of the greatest slave insurrection in the eighteenth century British Empire.  To teachers and researchers, the presentation offers a carefully curated archive of key documentary evidence.  To all viewers, the map suggests an argument about the strategies of the rebels and the tactics of counterinsurgency, about the […]