November ← 2014 ← dh+lib

EVENT: The Twentieth Anniversary Conference of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media, #rrchnm20

Nov

20

2014

A conference celebrating the 20th Anniversary of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media took place at George Mason University, November 14-15, 2014. The first day was an unconference format devoted to “Hacking the History of RRCHNM,” followed by a day of invited short talks and discussion grouped into two topics: “the future ...

RESOURCE: Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Suggestions and Strategies for the Text Encoding Initiative

Nov

20

2014

Issue 7 (“Reaching Out, Opting In”) of the Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is now available. The issue contains work on learning TEI, interoperable scholarly editions, design methodology, as well as an article by Sarah L. Pfannenschmidt and Tanya E. Clement entitled, “Evaluating Digital Scholarship: Suggestions and Strategies for the Text Encoding Initiative.” The ...

RESOURCE: Working with Data Using OpenRefine

Nov

20

2014

Owen Stephens (Open University) has written a post sharing the materials for his British Library course, Working with Data. The course is part of the Digital Scholarship Training Programme aimed at cross-training British Library staff. The program’s offerings are “designed to be introductory and are aimed at ‘Intelligent Novices’, that is, colleagues who have heard ...

CFP: New Directions in the Humanities Conference

Nov

20

2014

The Thirteenth International Conference on New Directions in the Humanities will be held at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Campus, June 17-19, 2015. The call for papers includes a “Special Focus for 2015: From the Digital Humanities to a Humanities of the Digital”: The conference will analyze this special focus through an interdisciplinary lens, ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, California College of the Arts

Nov

20

2014

From the announcement: The Digital Scholarship Librarian (DSL) will provide vision and energy in promoting the discovery, use and interoperability of digital content and digital resources in support of new knowledge creation at the college. The DSL will provide overall management for a multidisciplinary range of digital content, which includes standard file formats (i.e. publication, ...

RECOMMENDED: Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship

Nov

13

2014

Dot Porter (University of Pennsylvania) has shared a post, “Libraries Supporting Digital Scholarship: The Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies as an Object Lesson,” based on her recent keynote at the ACRL-Delaware Valley Chapter annual meeting. Porter writes: “I … realized that reuse of data is not new. In fact, it is ancient, and thinking in these ...

CFParticipation: Digital Literary Studies (Journal)

Nov

13

2014

Digital Literary Studies (site under development), a new open access peer-reviewed journal based out of Pennsylvania State University, is currently building its editorial team: Digital Literary Studies will look to publish scholarly articles on research concerned with computational approaches to literary analysis/criticism, or critical/literary approaches to electronic literature, digital media, and textual resources. … We are inviting expressions of interest ...

JOB: Digital Publishing Production Lead, Mason Publishing

Nov

13

2014

From the announcement: Mason Publishing Group seeks an experienced professional responsible for the management of and front-line user support for digital publishing tools and platforms. Mason Publishing Group is a new initiative that unites the George Mason University Libraries’ existing digital publishing activity with the George Mason University Press to form a new set of ...

JOB: HathiTrust Research Center Digital Humanities Specialist

Nov

13

2014

From the announcement: Reporting to the English and Digital Humanities Librarian, the Visiting HTRC Digital Humanities Specialist will assist with the development of training and outreach initiatives in support of libraries who wish to start their own HTRC research services as well as researchers working with the Hathi Trust Research Center. Responsibilities will include planning, ...

POST: Submissions to Digital Humanities 2015 (pt. 1-3)

Nov

13

2014

Scott Weingart (Indiana University) has written a series of posts about submissions to Digital Humanities 2015. The first post provides an overview of submissions, the second post compares and contrasts submissions for 2015 with the previous two years, and the third post investigates “the geography of submissions.” He observes, among other shifts, a rise in ...

RESOURCE: Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities

Nov

13

2014

Alex Christie (University of Victoria), Andrew Pilsch (Arizona State University), Shawna Ross (Arizona State University- Polytechnic), and Katie Tanigawa (University of Victoria) released the Manifesto of Modernist Digital Humanities following the Modernist Studies Association Annual conference. The manifesto offers strategies for critiquing methods and content, a framework for how modernists can create their own digital strategies: Modernists Digital Strategies should ...