The University of Padua is hosting a conference on December 10, 2015. The conference will address the issue of digital literacy by focussing on three main areas: (1) Policies that promote the development of these skills; (2) Research on the necessary skills for efficiently engaging in digital environments in an informed manner; (3) Experiences and…
The School of Writing, Rhetoric and Technical Communication (WRTC) at James Madison University invites applications for a tenure-track assistant professor to begin August 2016. We seek a colleague who specializes in digital media theory and practice, with a PhD (in hand by August 2016) in Technical and Professional Communication, Rhetoric and Composition or a related field. Read…
Over 12,000 grant records dating from NEH’s first grant in 1966 (to the American Society of Papryologists) through 1979 are now available, making the full run of NEH’s grant-making history complete and publicly accessible. Read full post here.
This study was commissioned by Universities UK’s Open Access Co-ordination Group in response to a recommendation of the Finch Group in its second report in 2013 that reliable indicators should be gathered on key features of the transition to open access (OA) in the UK. Read full post here.
The Film Studies Program at Mount Holyoke College invites applications for a visiting assistant professor of digital media studies, beginning July 1, 2016. This position is a new category called an Innovation Hire, a four year position that invites the candidate to help shape the College’s curriculum in new directions. Read full post here.
Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon invites applications for the Digital Projects Developer position at the Aubrey R. Watzek Library. Lewis & Clark is a selective liberal arts college with graduate programs in Education, Counseling Psychology, and Law. Read full post here.
A vibrant discussion followed my March 15th post, “A Proposal for a Corpus Sharing Protocol.”. Carrie Schroeder, Allen Riddel and others on Twitter pointed out that, especially in non-English DH fields, many corpora are already on GitHub. These include texts from the Chinese Buddhist Electronic Text Association, the Open Greek and Latin Project at Leipzig,…
From the post: Responsible for coordinating data management program at UT Libraries. Collaborates with staff, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Information Technology Services and other campus partners to ensure the UT community is making the best use of the services available to them. Reports to Scholary Communications Librarian. Source: UT Austin Job Posting – Program Coordinator…
Back in September last year I blogged about the implications for cultural heritage and digital humanities crowdsourcing projects that used simple tasks as the first step in public engagement of advances in machine learning that mean that fun, easy tasks like image tagging and text transcription could be done by computers. (Broadly speaking, ‘machine learning’…
From the announcement: The Director of Services and Operations (DSO) has primary responsibility for the operations and services of the HathiTrust preservation and access repository, overseeing the day-to-day management of HathiTrust’s core services to users and members, defining priorities for teams that manage HathiTrust’s core infrastructure, and driving the development of related policy and standard…