The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is delighted to announce our first Appfest, an informal, open call for both ideas and functional examples of creative and engaging ways to use the content and metadata in the DPLA back-end platform. The first Appfest will take place on November 8-9, 2012, at the Chattanooga Public Library on The 4th […]
We are doing Rails Girls in Washington, DC, again! We’re hosting a fun and free web development workshop. Come and learn about building web applications with Ruby on Rails. Here in DC, we’re about more than just politics and monuments, we have a strong technology community who loves Ruby and Rails. Apply now! Applications are open […]
Georgia Tech Digital Media Tenure-Track PositionGeorgia Tech’s School of Literature, Media, and Communication (LMC), which provides diverse humanistic perspectives on a technological world, is seeking to fill one Digital Media tenure track position at the rank of Assistant Professor, beginning in the fall of 2013. We seek practitioner / theorists who combine technical expertise with […]
As I wrote in one of the early ProfHacker blog posts, it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan. This truth was brought home to me this semester in my teaching. About a month ago, students in my course on “Writing in Digital Environments” began experimenting with Storify, a social media curation tool we’ve covered before […]
An Agenda for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture First Meeting of the Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture Florence, 13-14 December 2012 Via dell’Arte della Lana, 1, 50123 Florence The Italian Association for Digital Humanities and Digital Culture is passing through a crucial moment. After the important works and results reached by the […]
Hello Digital Historians, This year is flying by! With roughly two months left in the semester, we aim to stimulate discussion about the ways historians are engaging in the digital humanities through a series of eight blog posts. Over the next eight weeks we will cover Digital History topics divided into a two-part series. Series […]
While a number of legal issues colour contemporary approaches to, and practices of, digital preservation, it is arguable that intellectual property law, represented principally by copyright and its related rights, has been by far the most dominant, and often intractable, influence. It is thus essential for those engaging in digital preservation to understand the letter […]
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English & Creative Writing – Assistant Professor of Literature & Technology | Inside Higher Ed. The Department of English & Creative Writing at the State University of New York at Oswego invites applications for a tenure track Assistant Professor with a specialty in Literature and Technology. Review Date: Review of applications will begin November 1, […]
Welcome to Maker Librarian! | Maker Librarian. Having been involved in Maker Culture since 2009, I’ve taken a lot of pleasure in watching the maker and hacker movement intersect with libraries and was excited to play a small role in making this happen. And in the last year interest seems to have exploded! This is where […]
