Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Specialist, UNC Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library invites applications for the position of Digital Scholarship Specialist in the Digital Research Services department. We are seeking a creative and collaborative individual to provide technical support for digital scholarship projects and to guide the selection, enhancement or creation of new tools and workflows to support […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: NEH Object Lessons Workshop

In 2017 – 2018, Object Lessons will host four NEH Institutes. These workshops will offer guidance and strategies for answering this question, especially in light of trends in the humanities toward open access publishing; evolving expectations for tenure and promotion; and the emergence of new publishing opportunities such as e-books, digital media projects, and online venues […]

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Job: North-West University, Associate Professor/Professor -Digital Humanities

From the ad: The position as research manager is a high level position functioning within the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) as a research entity hosted by the North-West University. This implies providing academic leadership as the first professor/associate professor in Digital Humanities in South Africa, whilst fostering excellence in research and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News, Uncategorized

Conference: Free workshop(s), Hosted by MITH

From the post: MITH is hosting the 2017 annual conference of the Society for Textual Scholarship (STS), Textual Embodiments. As part of our pre-conference activities, we are hosting five FREE workshops on Wednesday, May 31st. Conference attendees have had the first chance to register and select workshops, and now we are opening up all remaining […]

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Job: Digital Arts & Humanities Specialist, Tufts Technology Services

From the ad: Reporting directly to the Associate Director of Geospatial Technology Services, the Digital Humanities Specialist is responsible for working closely with a diverse client base comprised of faculty and students to help them utilize innovative Digital Humanities methods and technologies to achieve their scholarly teaching and research goals. Read full ad here.

News, Resources

Resource: tidycensus R Package

From the resource: tidycensus is an R package that allows users to interface with the US Census Bureau’s decennial Census and five-year American Community APIs and return tidyverse-ready data frames, optionally with simple feature geometry included…tidycensus is designed to help R users get Census data that is pre-prepared for exploration within the tidyverse, and optionally […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Humanities and South Asian Studies

From the CFP: South Asian Review, the refereed journal of the South Asian Literary Association, invites fresh submissions for its 2018 Special Topic Issue, 39.1: “Digital Humanities and South Asian Studies.” This issue of SAR will be devoted to South Asian and diasporic interventions in digital humanities. Read full CFP here.

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Job: Digital Technologies Librarian at Trinity University

Trinity University is recruiting a Digital Technologies Librarian. From the ad: The Digital Technology Librarian will assist librarians and teaching faculty with the use of emerging teaching technologies and other digitally based tools, in support of information literacy goals and curricular requirements . . . S/he also will assist with maintaining the library’s website, conducting […]

News, Resources

Resource: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to d3.js

From the resource: The landscape for learning d3 is rich, vast and sometimes perilous. You may be intimidated by the long list of functions in d3’s API documentation or paralyzed by choice reviewing the dozens of tutorials on the home page. There are over 20,000+ d3 examples you could learn from, but you never know […]

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Job: Visiting Assistant Professor

From the add: The Ohio State University Libraries (OSUL) seeks a dynamic librarian for the position of Mary P. Key Diversity Resident… The Resident will contribute to the Libraries’ ongoing efforts to deeply engage with and support digital humanities scholarship by acting as a liaison for multidisciplinary area studies research centers. Situated at the intersection of […]