Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Infrastructure Developer at Princeton University

Princeton University is recruiting a Digital Infrastructure Developer (2 positions). From the ad: As a member of the growing Library Systems development team, reporting to the Library Application Development Manager, the developers in this position will implement, test, and document applications using the Hydra repository framework as well as other open source applications related to digital […]

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Job: Web Development Librarian at Western Carolina University

Western Carolina University is recruiting a Web Development Librarian. From the ad: The person in this position will design new sites and applications to improve the user experience in discovering, finding, and accessing library content and services. Providing vision and leadership in designing, developing and supporting the library website content and integrating it with the larger […]

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Job: Data Services Librarian at University of Toronto

The University of Toronto is recruiting a Data Services Librarian. From the ad: Reporting to the Coordinator, Liaison Librarian Program, the successful candidate will work collaboratively with colleagues within the unit, across the library and the campus on initiatives that assist faculty and students to navigate social sciences data-related issues, including data discovery, analysis, visualization, and […]

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Job: Digital Preservation Librarian at James Madison University

James Madison University is recruiting a Digital Preservation Librarian. From the ad: The Digital Preservation Librarian reports to the Head of Digital Collections and is responsible for the stewardship and protection of LET’s digital assets; leads the development of an effective and achievable strategy to establish a cohesive digital preservation program ensuring the long-term viability […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Graduate Students Speak Out – Gaining Knowledge in Digital Humanities

From the CFP: The CSDH/SCHN conference program committee is looking for ten-minute papers from graduate students that discuss or reflect on the opportunities they have had for education in the digital humanities, broadly conceived. Four papers will be selected to be part of a graduate student panel at Ryerson University during the CSDH/SCHN conference that […]

News, Resources

Resource: Quandl and Forecasting

From the post: Welcome to another installment of Reproducible Finance with R. Today we are going to shift focus in recognition of the fact that there’s more to Finance than stock prices, and there%u2019s more to data download than quantmod/getSymbols. In this post, we will explore commodity prices using data from Quandl, a repository for […]

News, Resources

Resource: Get Backward on Technology

From the post: These days there’s always some new technology, something new and shiny, to bring into the classroom. But “new” and “shiny” are not, in themselves, good reasons to adopt a new technology in your classroom; nor are they good reasons to reject it. Whether we’re talking about a virtual reality headset, a collaborative online […]

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Job: Humanities Research and Digital Instruction Librarian at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is recruiting a Humanities Research and Digital Instruction Librarian. From the ad: This position will provide research consultations for both traditional and digital humanities research and projects in collaboration with the UNC Libraries’ Research Hub staff, facilitate digital scholarship projects and extend relationships with campus partners. The […]

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Resource: Teaching Yourself to Code in DH

From the post: In “Teaching Yourself to Code in DH,” Scott Weingart (Carnegie Mellon University) has compiled an annotated list of “book-length introductions to analytic programming in DH.” Weingart invited participation via Twitter and a Google spreadsheet as part of a larger project collecting humanities research methodologies. He then culled the most relevant from these to […]

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Resource: Data Visualization – Introduction to Shiny Web Applications

From the resource: With the growing interest in interactive web applications for data visualization, the mastery of reactive frameworks, such as Shiny, becomes a valuable skill set in data science and digital humanities. Shiny is the analytical dashboards package created by R Studio, one of the key promoters and developers of R. It allows for […]