Job Announcements, News

Job: Mellon Digital Scholar | Libraries at the Five Colleges of Ohio

https://employment.kenyon.edu/applicants/jsp/shared/frameset/Frameset.jsp?time=1365609130656 The Libraries at the Five Colleges of Ohio invite applications for the position of Mellon Digital Scholar. The Digital Scholar will support the Ohio Five Libraries’ transition to digital scholarship and continue the process of integrating digital collections into the curriculum and faculty research agendas. Funded by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Respond to JDH 2.1

» Respond to JDH 2.1 Journal of Digital Humanities. The Journal of Digital Humanities “catches the good” by surfacing and highlighting valuable material published on the open web. For this issue we will go one step further, and solicit responses to this edition’s take on topic modeling in the digital humanities. We offer two ways to provide […]

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Announcement: Introducing Scalar

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture » Overview. Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. More […]

News, Resources

Resource: Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R

Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R | Spatial Analysis. Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysis and visualisation of spatial data with R. The software has become established as one of the best around for statistics and it is becoming increasingly recognised as a tool for data visualisation (I wrote […]

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Job: Head, Digital Initiatives | University of Waterloo

Head, Digital Initiatives | Library | University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo Library seeks a creative, dynamic and public service oriented professional librarian to fill a leadership position as Head, Digital Initiatives.  The position offers an exciting opportunity for a visionary leader to build on past and present achievements and to move the digital […]

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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 […]