The University of Newcastle, Australia is seeking a Professor of Digital Humanities. From the ad: The Professor of Digital Humanities will lead the development of Digital Humanities in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and across the Faculty and wider university. The role is a leader in research and teaching in the context of new multidisciplinary clusters […]
From the announcement: Harvard Library seeks a skilled, innovative, and collaborative professional to serve as Digital Collections Program Manager at Houghton Library. The incumbent leads, coordinates, participates in, and/or collaborates on a series of initiatives and activities designed to build digital collections that facilitate access to and discovery of the library’s holdings, as well as […]
From the job ad: The UMass Amherst Libraries seek a dynamic and innovative Data Services Librarian. The incumbent will lead the UMass Amherst Libraries‘ efforts to support faculty, researchers and students in the management of their research data throughout the research life-cycle. Source: University of Massachusetts Amherst Job Posting: Data Services Librarian (Librarian III or […]
From the resource: This lesson offers a brief and concise introduction to Linked Open Data (LOD). No prior knowledge is assumed. Readers should gain a clear understanding of the concepts behind linked open data, how it is used, and how it is created. Access resource here.
From the CFP: This one-day workshop, or “unconference,” brings together scholars, historians and data scientists with a shared interest in classical epigraphic data. The event involves no speakers or set programme of presentations, but rather a loose agenda, to be further refined in advance or on the day, which is to use, exploit, transform and […]
From the post: The executive committee of The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) seeks to elect four positions on its executive committee for the term 2017-2020, and now opens its Call for Nominations. The committee highlights the importance of a diverse and representative executive, and welcomes candidates from all backgrounds. For further information, please […]
From the CFP: The management of the cultural information has to deal with challenges related to (i) metadata modeling, specification, standardization, extraction, evaluation, mapping, integration and effective use, (ii) knowledge representation as conceptualization to provide the context for unambiguously interpreting metadata, and (iii) information integration from different contexts for the provision of integrated access and advanced […]
From the CFP: This conference aims to promote the understanding and collaboration between archivists and researchers; explore challenges posed by digital access to collections, and improve methodologies (e.g. education/training for researchers in what information is available from online catalogues, how archivists can improve catalogue descriptions so researchers can find relevant records more easily and how you […]
From the ad: Middlebury College seeks a creative and user-focused information professional to join our library staff as Digital Scholarship & UX Design Librarian. The Digital Scholarship & UX Design Librarian will catalyze and support the use of digital research methods within the library and across academic disciplines. Specifically, the person in this position will […]
From the CFP: This conference follows up on the workshop “Playing with History” that has been held in November 2015 in Huddersfield. Gaming and History is gaining more and more traction, either as means to “gamify” history education or museum experiences, or as computer games as prism into history like the popular History Respawned podcast […]
