Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Archivist and Institutional Repository Librarian, WPI

From the ad: Serve as the first-level technology and application manager for the library’s institutional repository service (currently using Bepress’s Digital Commons); and as the library’s chief liaison to Information Technology in developing requirements and functionality of other digital scholarship and repository platforms (such as Samvera); and as the lead functional liaison to university faculty, […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Major Milestones for Omeka (Omeka S 1.0 Release)

From the announcement: Today, the Omeka team is releasing the first major point release for Omeka S: 1.0. It is available for download today. We are also revealing a redesigned, Omeka.org, which represents a major undertaking of effort that has happened at the edges of all other pressing design, development, and outreach work. One year […]

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Job: Lecturer, Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, Loyola University Chicago

From the ad: Loyola University Chicago, College of Arts and Sciences, Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities invite applications for a full-time, renewable, three-year Lecturer position in Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, beginning August 13, 2018 for academic year 2018-2019. The Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities is home to a variety of […]

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Job: Faculty Position in Digital Humanities Computing, University of Oklahoma

From the ad: The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma seeks an innovative scholar in digital humanities/humanities computing for an open rank, tenured/tenure track faculty position. This search is part of a cluster hire in the new Data Scholarship Program (DSP)… The incumbent is expected to become a leader within a vibrant […]

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Job: Associate or Full Professor, Literary Studies and the Digital Humanities, Michigan State University

From the ad: The Department of English at Michigan State University invites applications for a scholar, at the level of Associate or Full Professor, whose work connects literary studies and the digital humanities to critical diversity. This position is part of the College’s Critical Diversity in a Digital Age initiative, which will facilitate research programs, […]

News, Resources

Resource: Data Packages for DH Beginners

From the resource: I’ve written about this before: working in groups, my students are assigned a dataset at the beginning of the quarter. They learn how to work with it as the quarter progresses, doing a lot of secondary contextual research, interviewing an expert about it, manipulating the data, and finally building a website that […]

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Job: Assistant Professor, European History (Medieval) & Digital Humanities, University of South Florida

From the ad: The History Department of the University of South Florida seeks qualified candidates to research and teach European History (Medieval preferred), and Digital Humanities. This position is a 9 month, tenure earning, permanent position. Salary negotiable… Candidates should have exceptional research promise and demonstrable success in teaching university undergraduate courses in European History (Medieval preferred) […]

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Job: Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, The University of Hong Kong

From the ad: Applicants should have a Ph.D. degree in information management, digital humanities, or one of the core-humanities/social science disciplines such as linguistics and sociology. They should have demonstrated experience with digital humanities tools and methodologies, a strong commitment in addressing social and behavioral science related questions, as well as interest in developing pedagogical […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

Conference: Dodging the Memory Hole 2017

About the conference: Please join us at Dodging the Memory Hole 2017: Saving Online News on Nov. 15-16 at the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco. Speakers, panelists and attendees will explore solutions to the most urgent threat to cultural memory today — the loss of online news content. The forum will focus on progress […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: Tropy 1.0 Released

From the announcement: We are pleased to announce that the 1.0 release of Tropy is now available. While our crack team of developers continues to refine the software and add new features, Tropy is now officially out of its beta testing phase. If you haven’t yet tried Tropy, now is the perfect time to try […]