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…

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 Tabula lets you upload a (text-based) PDF file into a simple web interface and magically pull tabular data into CSV format. Tabula is free and available under the MIT open-source license. Introducing Tabula – Features – Source: An OpenNews project.

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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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…

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