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.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
This web site is designed to be a starting place, an entryway for scholars interested in beginning to explore the possibilities for digital tools, programs, and methods to empower and enhance their scholarship in the humanities. These essays and links are only a brief glimpse into the vast field of potential in the digital humanities, […]
It’s time for the second go at my upper-level undergraduate research seminar, Digitizing Folk Music History: The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. At the end of teaching the course last time, I offered the following reflections on what worked and what did not in this kind of digital humanities/digital history course: Digitizing Folk Music History: […]
We all know that appropriate standards are required if electronic textual scholarship is to become precisely what it claims to be – scholarly. Enter the TEI, the various debates on its use, and the rest is history – we now have a standard for electronic textual encoding. What next? Well, encoding, what else? Textual encoding […]
The Digital Projects Librarian is responsible for creating, managing and maintaining the digital initiatives focused primarily on the Bridwell Library Special Collections. These initiatives include digitization of special collections materials and participating in the creating of online exhibitions.
