The job posting below is from the Code4Lib email list. The Executive Director of Digital Scholarship Services (DSS) is part of Fondren Library’s executive team, responsible for the oversight and management of scholarly communications, the institutional repository, the Digital Media Commons,…
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I'm the Digital Humanities Librarian in the George A. Smathers Libraries at the University of Florida. My work focuses on data curation, digital curation, and socio-technical needs for scholarly cyberinfrastructure. I work heavily with the University of Florida Digital Collections (UFDC), Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), and the Open Source SobekCM software and tools. I am the Technical Director for the international collaborative Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC). In my research, I’m interested in issues of creating and supporting digital humanities work and new forms of digital scholarship.
Wikipedia Recent Changes Map (From African Studies Librarian)
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Dan Reboussin has a short blog post on his African Studies Librarian blog on the Wikipedia Recent Changes Map. The Wikipedia Recent Changes Map is really interesting, and the resources for code and methods for creating it are also very interesting and…
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Article on HiPerGator and UF Research Computing awesomeness: hpcwire.com/hpcwire/2013-0…
UF, Fall 2013: Digital Humanities Graduate Seminar: “Panama Silver, Asian Gold : Migration, Money, and the Making of the Modern Caribbean”
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In fall 2013, Leah Rosenberg will be offering a graduate course in the Digital Humanities and the course is “Panama Silver, Asian Gold : Migration, Money, and the Making of the Modern Caribbean.” The course is a Digital Humanities and…
HiPerGator!
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I was traveling for a bit last week and so didn’t get to share my incredible excitement about the official opening of the new UF Data Center and the official opening for HiPerGator! This is great news for everyone at…
#WhatShouldWeCallGradSchool, Emeritus Professors
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The image below is from #WhatShouldWeCallGradSchool and it just strikes me as funny. I’m not sure why exactly with this not making sense for accuracy or validity, and not even sure what that would mean if it could be “accurate”…
Post: The Dirty Little Secret of Big Data Projects
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David Dietrich has a useful post, “The Dirty Little Secret of Big Data Projects” on EMC’s InFocus Blog. In the post, David importantly notes that the biggest challenges with big data often don’t get the most attention: [I]t occurs to…
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Chomping data at trillions of “bites” per second » University of Florida ufl.edu/2013/05/07/cho…
Jobs at University of Leipzig, Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities: 1) Systems & Workflow Manager ; and, 2) Interactive Designer
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The announcement below is from Perseus Digital Library Updates. In February 2013, the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities announced possible jobs. Funding from the European Social Fund has now been finalized (http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/02/reinventing-humanities-publication-project-receives-e1-1-million-grant-from-the-saxon-ministry-of-science-and-european-social-fund/) and we are pleased to announce two positions:…