Job Announcements, News

Job: Director of Data Education, Washington and Lee

The Director of Data Education will establish a program to: engage faculty and students in incorporating statistical and computational data analysis methods (data science) into the undergraduate curriculum and scholarship; provide guidance for students in finding data sets as well as teaching students how to clean and manipulate data for use in analytical and statistical […]

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Job: Digital Media Asset Program Manager, Notre Dame

The successful candidate for this position will play a key role in the video asset management lifecycle of content created and/or stored in the Martin Digital Media Center. This position is responsible for the ingest workflow of incoming media materials including storage and retrieval from a storage area network, LTO tape library and cloud-based system […]

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Job: Three Postdocs in Digital Humanities, University of Helsinki

We are looking for candidates with expertise on computational science, linguistics and history/cultural heritage. The three successful candidates will be members of a research community that already includes, for example, Academy of Finland’s project on “Computational History and the Transformation of Public Discourse”, 2015-2019. The data that the research community is using includes various historical […]

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Job: Digital Curation Coordinator at UW–Madison

Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Technology Strategy and Data Services, the Digital Curation Coordinator will work in close collaboration with the AUL, the Assistant Director for Digital Library and Preservation Strategy, the Director of Scholarly Communication, and other library stakeholders to provide programmatic leadership pertaining to a variety of digital library services including […]

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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 […]