May ← 2014 ← dh+lib

What Are You Reading? May 27th Edition

May

27

2014

Featuring Julie Adamo, Jefferson Bailey, Chelcie Rowell, and Krista White. The dh+lib Review will be taking a break for a few weeks, returning on June 10th. While the Review editors are away, we’ve asked a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share their own lists of weekly reading. Enjoy! ...

TaDiRAH: Building Capacity for Integrated Access

May

21

2014

In this post, Quinn Dombrowski (UC Berkeley) and Jody Perkins (Miami University in Ohio) introduce the digital humanities taxonomy project known as TaDiRAH, reviewing the motivating factors behind its inception and outlining future goals of the project. Both are members of the TaDiRAH Coordinating Committee. TaDiRAH, the Taxonomy of Digital Research Activities in the Humanities, ...

What Are You Reading? May 20th Edition

May

20

2014

Featuring Heather Martin, Chelcie Rowell, and Krista White. The dh+lib Review will be taking a break for a few weeks, returning on June 10th. While the Review editors are away, we’ve asked a few members of our community to step in as guest editors and share their own lists of weekly reading. Enjoy! Heather ...

What Are You Reading? May 13th Edition

May

13

2014

Featuring Joseph Grobelny, Stewart Varner, and Krista White. The dh+lib Review will be taking a break for a few weeks, returning on June 10th. While the Review editors are away, we’ve asked a few members of our community to serve as guest editors and step in with their own list of weekly reading. Enjoy! Joseph ...

RESOURCE: Archives Journal Special Issue: Publishing the Archive

May

6

2014

The latest issue of Archives Journal, Publishing the Archive, explores the “notion that the distinction between building and organizing a digital archive, on the one hand, and publishing interpretive or argumentative work based on its contents, on the other, is growing increasingly blurred.” Articles in the issue include The Charles Brockden Brown Electronic Archive: Mapping Archival ...

RESOURCE: Getting Started with APIs

May

6

2014

In a post for ACRL TechConnect, Lauren Magnuson (Trine University) writes a primer on getting started with APIs, including an overview of basic terminology, authentication, and methods for working with APIs. Magnuson also provides a case study using the Twitter API, which can be used for creating bots, automating tweets, and connecting Twitter with other ...

CFP: Digital Small-Scale Editions, 2015 Issue of Scholarly Editing

May

6

2014

Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing is accepting proposals for its 2015 issue from individuals interested in editing a small-scale digital edition, which will be peer reviewed and open access. We believe that many scholars have discovered fascinating texts that deserve to be carefully edited and published, and we offer a ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACH Microgrants 2014: DH Pedagogies

May

6

2014

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is accepting proposals for microgrants – awards up to $1,000 and $3,000 total grant call – related to pedagogy, although all applications will be considered. Projects should be completed within roughly six months, and might include: a framework for sharing DH syllabi a means of annotating and sharing ...

JOB: Research Associate, Oxford e-Research Centre

May

6

2014

From the job description: We are seeking a Research Associate which is a technical role working on Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies that support research in Digital Humanities, specifically for the ElEPHãT and Transforming Musicology projects. These projects share a need for identifying and semantically linking diverse digital resources (images of books OCR-ed text, ...

JOBS: Digital Scholarship Librarians, Boston College

May

6

2014

From the position announcement: Boston College Libraries seeks two creative, knowledgeable, and intellectually curious Digital Scholarship Librarians (Arts & Humanities and Sciences & Social Sciences) to advance digital scholarship initiatives at Boston College by providing consultation, technical support, and project management for faculty, librarians, staff, and students engaged in technology-rich scholarly projects … s/he works ...