Job Announcements, News

Job: Media Commons Coordinator – Undergraduate Library

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks an innovative, collaborative, and service-oriented professional for the position of Media Commons Coordinator. Reporting to the Head of the Undergraduate Library, the successful candidate for this newly-created position will provide leadership for the establishment of the Undergraduate Library’s Media Commons. The Media Commons Coordinator will collaborate with colleagues […]

News, Resources

Resource: how to make a digital scholarly edition–and why

The abstract I submitted last fall declared that I’d draw uponAutobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 to show that scholars hold the means of production of editions more immediately now than in any prior decade since the 1470s. I’m trained as a medievalist and a manuscript scholar, and this is not hyperbole. I’ll touch upon some […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: NEH Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Grants

Applications may be submitted for projects that address one or more of the following activities: arranging and describing archival and manuscript collections; cataloging collections of printed works, photographs, recorded sound, moving images, art, and material culture; providing conservation treatment (including deacidification) for collections, leading to enhanced access; digitizing collections; preserving and improving access to born-digital […]

News, Resources

Resource: The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture

The book “The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”, edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin as an output of the Communia Thematic Network which took place between 2007 and 2011 and is at the origin of Communia Association, is out in all formats (hardback, paperback, and digital editions) […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Postdoctoral Researcher (AEGIS), University of Toronto Inclusive Design Institute

The Project AEGIS postdoctoral position to be located in the IDI Mobile and Pervasive Computing Cluster at the University of Toronto will focus on the role of ‘participatory material culture’ in serving these needs. Research questions to be addressed may include: How can rapid prototyping and “3-d printing” technologies and smart sensors be used to […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Join the World Fair of DH Centres in Hamburg

centerNet is inviting submissions of short videos to introduce and showcase activities from digital humanities centres around the world. These videos will be premiered as a collection at the centerNET meeting during DH2012 in Hamburg, and compiled on the centerNet website. We hope to see your centre represented at the World Fair of DH Centres! […]