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RESOURCE: Border Trouble: On the Frontiers of Digital Scholarship

Mar

26

2013

Spencer Keralis (Director of Digital Scholarship, University of North Texas) has posted the text and slides of his presentation on the panel “New Frontiers for Research, Teaching and Learning: Digital Scholarship and Latin@ Archives/Nuevas Fuentes para Investigación, Enseñanza and Aprendizaje: Estudios Digitales y Archivos Latin@s” at the Fourth Texas Jalisco Conference in Education and Culture. The ...

RESOURCE: New Challenges in Digital History: Sharing Women’s History on Wikipedia

Mar

26

2013

Mia Ridge has shared her presentation notes from the Women’s History in the Digital World Conference at Bryn Mawr’s Albert Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education. The talk explores how and why academics should edit Wikipedia, a topic that has received a lot of attention recently in the library world, with many ...

RESOURCE: Austin College Digital Humanities Colloquium Wrap-up

Mar

12

2013

In February, Austin College hosted a Digital Humanities Colloquium as part of a 2012-13 Mellon Foundation planning grant. Matthew Windsor (Visiting Librarian at Hendrix College) has shared a recap on Eduhacker highlighting the key points of each session along with links to projects, tools, and

POST: Why South By Southwest is Important for Libraries, Archives and Museums

Mar

12

2013

What does South By Southwest (SXSW) have to offer practitioners engaged with libraries and the digital humanities? A recent post by Butch Lazorchak on The Signal (the digital preservation blog from the Library of Congress) argues: “A lot.” Pointing to the growing presence of libraries, archives, and museums (LAMs) at the 26th annual SXSW conference, Lazorchak ...

CFP: What is Diplomatics in the Digital Environment?

Mar

12

2013

The organizers of Digital Diplomatics 2013 have issued a call for papers for the conference taking place at the Archives Nationales de France, November 14-16, 2013. Following the two conferences on Digital Diplomatics that took place in 2007 in Munich and 2011 in Naples, this conference has the goal to further the scholarly reflection on the way ...

POST: Size Matters

Mar

12

2013

Academic librarians teach information literacy, visual literacy, digital literacy — but do we teach spatial literacy? This post from Kelly Johnston (GIS Specialist for the Scholars’ Lab, University of Virginia) explores the value of spatial thinking, linking out to a variety of intriguing resources and research, and introduces the GeoTron 5000 tool, an app developed “to ...

JOBS: Fellowships in Data Curation for Medieval Studies

Mar

12

2013

The CLIR/DLF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Data Curation for Medieval Studies is an expansion of the CLIR Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Academic Libraries. These five, fully-funded fellowships will provide recent Ph.D.s with professional development, education, and training opportunities in data curation for Medieval Studies. Through this program, CLIR seeks to raise awareness and build capacity for ...

JOBS: Digital Humanities and Web Services Librarian, University of Delaware

Mar

12

2013

DEADLINE: March 31, 2013 Description: Reporting to the Head, Library Information Technology User Support Department, the primary responsibility of this position is to support digital humanities initiatives at the University of Delaware. The position is also responsible for expanding web access to the Library’s digital collections and coordinating the Library’s web presence.

CFP: Responding to JLA’s DH in Libraries

Mar

4

2013

The editors of dh+lib would like to invite submissions in response to the recent special issue of the Journal of Library Administration. As noted earlier on dh+lib, JLA devoted its first issue of 2013 to DH in libraries. Digital Humanities in Libraries: New Models for Scholarly Engagement features six articles that address both the theoretical ...

POST: Visualizations and Digital Collections

Feb

12

2013

In a previous post on dh+lib, Jefferson Bailey outlined some of the ways in which the digital humanities could enhance access and discovery of cultural heritage materials. Now, in “Visualizations and Digital Collections,” he explores the potential of visualization as a technique for appraisal in born digital collections: [G]iven the ever-increasing volume of material in ...

OPPORTUNITY: “Taking TEI Further: Customizing the TEI”

Feb

12

2013

A reminder that there is still time to apply for the NEH-funded “Taking TEI Further: Customizing the TEI,” offered at Brown University. The seminar, which takes place May 8-10, 2013, has no registration fee and travel funding is available. Deadline to apply is February 15th. For further details and information about the seminar series, check ...