The MIT Libraries are seeking an experienced, enthusiastic and self-motivated software engineer to join a group of developers that provides programming and software analysis support across the MIT Libraries. This position provides both general application development for library technical platforms and services, as well as specialized development for the MIT Geodata repository.
New resource: National History Day and Archives | ArchivesNext. I’m also happy to share that there is a new resource available, a National History Day and Archives Toolkit, created by SAA’s Reference, Access and Outreach Section’s National History Day Committee. The toolkit resides on a wiki, and is intended to provide support for both archivists […]
Check out the showcase for a sense of what it can do. You’ve got your choropleth, chart symbols, and 3-dimensional projections. The star however is clearly the map of Italy, complete with a cute little ferry that follows a geo path.
Digital Humanities Congress 2012 – Call for Papers | arts-humanities.net: Digital Humanities and Arts. Digital Humanities Congress 2012 University of Sheffield, 6th – 8th September 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS The University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute with the support of the Network of Expert Centres and Centernet is delighted to announce its Call for Papers […]
Position: Education Specialist (Professional Development and Web Technology)
Tufts University is recruiting an Archivist for Digital Collections – Digital Collections and Archives.
The Columbia University Libraries invites nominations and applications for the position of Digital Scholarship Coordinator, Humanities and History Libraries division.
To all digital humanists or people working on humanities computing projects,
Please join us for the fourth annual Day of Digital Humanities that will take place on March 27th, 2012.
Responsible in managing daily operations related to the digitization, cataloging, classification, and access of archival materials. Creates, manages and organizes digitization projects. Catalogs and classifies digitized print, audio-visual and oral history. Creates and maintains a website for the digitized items. Seeks permission for copyrighted material for digitizing. Works in collaboration with other area libraries and […]
Whenever I talk about crowd-sourced transcription–actually whenever I talk about crowdsourced anything–the first question people ask is about accuracy. Nobody trusts the public add to an institution’s data/meta-data, nor especially to correct it. However, quality control over data entry is a well-explored problem, and while I’m not familiar with the literature from industry regarding commercial […]
