Resource: Best Online Collaboration Tools 2012
A collection of best online collaboration tools from Robin Good, updated weekly.
Category: News
Resource: Software Studies: Guide to visualizing image and video collections
The guide describes the techniques used in our Software Studies Lab to explore large image and video sets. The guide covers the following operations (software used is in brackets): – Download and setup free ImageJ software used to prepare images and video for visualizations, and create visualizations. – Automatically detect shots in a video (shotdetect). […]
CFP: Digital Humanities Caucus Sessions for ASECS 2013
The Digital Humanities (DH) Caucus of The American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies seeks session topics and organizers for the 2013 meeting of ASECS, to be held April 4-7, 2013, in Cleveland, Ohio.
Resource: Sample workshop assignment for teaching Omeka
Have you been considering teaching an Omeka workshop at a conference or for a public or digital history class? Colleen Greene has shared a workshop assignment she created and taught for two hands-on Omeka sessions during the Fall 2011 semester.
Job: Postdoc (VAP) in Digital Humanities, The Graduate Center at CUNY
The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, the Ph.D. – granting institution of CUNY, announces a postdoctoral fellowship for the academic year 2012-2013 in the area of digital humanities.
Job: Sr. Prof. Research Assistant in Digital Curation, U. of Colorado
We are seeking to hire a Sr. Professional Research Assistant (research fellow) with a degree in Library and/or Information Science, or an arts, humanities or social science discipline in which the candidate has acquired significant research and practical expertise in the area of digital curation. The ideal candidate should provide evidence of past practical experience […]
Job: Curator, Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies
The Penn Libraries is seeking an experienced, dynamic Medieval and Renaissance manuscript studies specialist to lead the effort to build a vital and enduring presence for the Schoenberg Center for Manuscript Studies at Penn.
Resource: Nature Publishing Group release Linked Data Platform
The Linked Data Platform provides access to datasets from NPG published as linked data and made available through SPARQL services. The data are queryable interactively through a form interface and remotely through a service endpoint. NPG is making available a number of datasets for public access as linked data. These include data about articles published […]
Report: Towards a Dynamic Linked Data Observatory (PDF)
We describe work-in-progress on the design and methodology of the Dynamic Linked Data Observatory : a framework to monitor Linked Data over an extended period of time. The core goal of our work is to collect frequent, continuous snapshots of a subset of the Web of Data that is interesting for further study and experimentation, […]
Job: Digital Library Programmer at Brown University
The Brown University Library is recruiting a Digital Library Programmer. The Digital Library Programmer manages the library’s Fedora implementation and other digital collection management tools; develops the digital repository environment in accordance with the Open Archive Information System reference model; administers the repository’s overall architecture; develops, maintains and integrates Institutional Repository tools with Fedora; implements […]