CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Open Source Indexing

Historic documents often contain handwriting, old fonts, or other text formats that OCR software can’t handle. We need humans–from volunteers to paid staff–to read the document images and transcribe what they see into databases which can be searched, analyzed, crawled, and used by researchers. Until now those efforts have required organizations either to outsource indexing […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoc, Ming Qing Women’s Writing Digital Archive and Database, McGill

The Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University, announces a postdoctoral fellowship with support from the Henry Luce Foundation to begin Aug. 1, 2013, renewable for two subsequent years. The fellow will assist the Director of the Ming Qing Women’s Writings Digital Archive and Database (http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/mingqing), Prof. Grace S. Fong, in executing, managing, and developing […]

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Job: Deputy Director, Center for 21st Century Studies, U. Wisconsin-Milwaukee

The Center for 21st Century Studies (C21) at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee seeks applicants for the full-time academic staff position of Administrative Program Manager II (Deputy Director).  Preference for familiarity with recent developments in digital humanities; administrative or supervisory experience; experience with at least one of the following: graphic design, web design, or social media H-Net Job […]