Reporting to the Manager of Library Information and Technology Services, the Librarian manages the Acquisitions program which provides access to the Libraries’ owned and licensed resources. This program is responsible for the ordering and processing of electronic resources for the Drexel University Libraries, including some tools and services to manage them. The Librarian also oversees […]
We’re pleased to announce that the 13th edition of the DH Benelux Conference will take place in Maastricht at Maastricht University. The annual DH Benelux Conference serves as a platform for the community of interdisciplinary Digital Humanities researchers to meet, present and discuss their latest research findings and to demonstrate tools and projects. We’re excited […]
For investigative journalists, data is a source to be questioned, a witness to be interrogated. In Mexico, the agency Data Crítica uses data to uncover critical public health stories. Their challenge is not just analysing data, but first assessing its reliability. They have integrated the Open Data Editor into the core of their methodology, using […]
This issue was curated by Colleen Nugent McLean, DHNow Project Manager, and Augustine Farinola, DHNow Guest Editor. This week, our first two Editors’ Choice are focused on questions of digital space and place. The first Editors’ Choice is a blog post about a crowdsourcing project to georeference a collection of digitized maps. Georeferencing allows historical […]
The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world’s preeminent scientific and cultural institutions, and has as its mission to discover, interpret, and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education, and exhibition. The Communications department is seeking a full-time Digital Media […]
The Digitization Specialist undertakes digitization projects for Chester Fritz Library and its patrons, producing high-quality digital versions of analog documents and materials. They will manage the day-to-day tasks necessary to accomplish these projects, including gathering the materials to digitize, planning and executing the digitization process, training and supervising student workers performing digitization tasks, tracking progress […]
In this post, I want to reflect on what version control has come to mean for me, especially through my experiences working on two collaborative digital projects: Reframing Collections: From Geographic Generalizations to Cultural Context and Mapping East Lansing Memories. Both projects have been meaningful in completely different ways, but together they have reshaped how […]
The Universal Viewer (UV) is a community-developed open source project on a mission to help you share your content with the world. The UV software can also play audio and video files, display 3D files, PDFs and more. You can try it for yourself at universalviewer.io. You can see the Universal Viewer displaying different types […]
The DE-BIAS tool, developed as a part of the DE-BIAS project, aims to create and detect a vocabulary of problematic language in the metadata of cultural heritage institutions. Researcher Inna Kizhner shares the work undertaken to identify and flag antisemitic language in cultural heritage collections. See full post.
The Tutankhamun (TAA) Archive is the most significant collection held by the Griffith Institute at the University of Oxford. It preserves the complete archaeological records of Howard Carter and his team’s ten-year excavation of the tomb of Tutankhamun, including maps, plans, object cards, drawings, journals, diaries, notes, correspondence, and Harry Burton’s iconic photographs. Today the […]
