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From the CFP: We’re excited to announce the third of three Library 2.016 online mini-conferences: “Libraries of the Future,” October 6th, 2016, from 12:00 – 3:00pm US-Pacific Time (click for your own time zone). As libraries shape their futures – and adapt to the future needs of their communities – what are the near- and long-term trends […]
Hundreds of thousands of artworks, objects, books, and records in the Getty’s collections have been photographed and posted online. But how do objects go from the physical world to your screen? People. Holly McGee is one of them. Here’s what a typical day in her life at work is like. Read full post here.
The International Digital Curation Conference (IDCC) will take place in Edinburgh from 20-23 February 2017. The organising committee are now inviting submissions. IDCC, now in its 12th year, brings together digital curation professionals and educators with data producers and consumers to consider digital curation in a multi-disciplinary context. The theme for this year’s conference is embedding digital curation. Read more here.
Join us at “Dodging the Memory Hole 2016: Saving Online News,” where we will explore solutions to the most urgent threat to cultural memory today – the loss of online news content. Journalistic content published on websites and through social media channels, is fragile and easily lost in a tsunami of digital content. Join other […]
This fall quarter I am teaching my digital history course. You can find the draft of the syllabus here. While the title of the course hasn’t changed since the last time I taught it, I’ve made two substantial changes to the overall structure of the course. First, the course focuses more heavily on public history […]
The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Search within the volumes, or browse them by administration; see also a list of all pre-Truman volumes. Access resource here.
Bibliography Among the Disciplines, a four-day international conference to be held in Philadelphia from 12 to 15 October 2017, will bring together scholarly professionals poised to address current problems pertaining to the study of textual artifacts that cross scholarly, pedagogical, professional, and curatorial domains. The conference will explore theories and methods common to the object-oriented disciplines, […]
The second biennial RESAW (Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference is seeking contributions.This conference seeks to explore the value of web archives for scholarly use, to highlight innovative research, to investigate the challenges and benefits of working with the archived web, to identify opportunities for incorporating web archives in learning and […]
The George Mason University Department of History and Art History invites applications for a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor of U.S. Art History. From the ad: Areas of specialization in the art and material culture of the United States from any time period from the colonial era to the present will be considered. Special preference will be […]
In 1861, the census for the colony of New South Wales (as it was back then) recorded just one Chinese woman living in Balmain in Sydney. The historian Eric Rolls, writing in 1992, commented that this ‘lone woman is exceptional and inexplicable’. Inexplicable? My partner and collaborator Kate Bagnall is a historian of Chinese Australia and […]
