Omeka developers sought for The Boston Bombing Archive: Our Marathon, a project under development at The NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks at Northeastern University. We hope to develop additional plugins that will allow the incorporation of new kinds of data into Omeka. Grants may be available for developers interested in building these plugins.
UC Merced has two opportunities for postdoctoral scholars in Public Humanities and Digital Humanities. The application period closes on May 9.
The Library of Congress is recruiting a Program Specialist (Digital Projects Coordinator). Here’s an excerpt from the ad: The Digital Projects Coordinator coordinates and facilitates activities relating to the Library Services information technology (IT) goals through application development and implementation of projects involving the Library’s integrated library system, other enterprise systems, and web enabled applications.
At UC Santa Cruz we’re launching a new professional MS in Games and Playable Media, which will be offered through our Silicon Valley campus and will include working both with our current game faculty and with new personnel hired specifically for the program. We are currently in the selection process for the first position to […]
The British Library is recruiting a BL Labs Technical Lead.
Our reader survey on the Journal of Digital Humanities closes tomorrow, May 3, at 5pm. If you haven’t already done so, please take a few minutes to tell us what you value most about this publication. Your feedback will help us determine where to focus our attention as we plan for our second year. http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/reader-survey/
One of my goals when I started building Vincent was to streamline the creation of maps as much as possible. There are some excellent Python map libraries out there- see Basemap and Kartograph for more fun with maps. I highly recommend both of those tools, as they are both quite good and very powerful. I wanted something a little simpler, that […]
While we run our own 15 course Digital Scholarship Training programme for staff at the Library* we are always on the look-out for further training opportunities for colleagues. The following is a small selection of what’s on our radar at the moment. If you can recommend others coming up please do let us know in the […]
The 2013 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, to be held November 3–6, 2013 in Austin, Texas, is seeking “proposals for presentations, panel discussions, workshops, research updates, and hands-on, problem-solving sessions.” The DLF is seeking proposals that focus on the themes of digital technology design, management and assessment, data, and collaboration.
What an amazing conference filled with inventive, kind, humorous and wickedly smart people. About 350 of you showed up and it was so much fun. Because it was such a busy conference and we didn’t all have a chance to see each other’s papers, we’re asking conference participants to post their talks here on HASTAC. […]
