Research & Projects (Page 75)

The announcement below is from the TEI list.  Announcing DH Awards 2012! Digital Humanities Awards are a new set of annual awards given in recognition of talent and expertise in the digital humanities community and are nominated and voted for entirely by the public. These awards are intended to help put interesting DH resources in the spotlight and engage DH users (and general public) in the work of the community. Awards are not specific to geography, language, conference, organization or field of humanities that they benefit. There is no financial prize associated with these community awards. The categories for DH Awards 2012 are: * BestRead More →

Evaluation methods for scholarship (for improvement, validation, impact, and scholarly and administrative processes, among other concerns) is always of interest for academia, and the evaluation of digital work is currently of great interest. There are a number of great resources for evaluating digital scholarship, and new resources appearing regularly. dh+lib: where the digital humanities and librarianship meet recently published “Evaluating DH Work: Guidelines for Librarians” earlier this month. The piece focuses on evaluations for librarian’s digital humanities work. I’m happy to note that efforts underway at the University of Florida Libraries for Facilitated Peer Review are listed in the references and further reading for this article. Also recently,Read More →

The news below is from the MITH blog. Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute Summer 2013 Workshop Now Accepting Applications MITH is pleased to announce that applications are now being accepted for the first Digital Humanities Data Curation Institute workshop, to be held at the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, on June 24-26, 2013. Visit the Institute Web site to complete an application. Digital Humanities Data Curation is a series of workshops organized by MITH, the Women Writers Project (WWP) at Brown University, and the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) atGSLIS. The workshop series is generously funded by an Institute for Advanced Topics in theRead More →

I just saw the news on “Your Twitter archive” that Twitter is releasing a new tool for downloading all of you Tweets! This is great news for so many folks who need to preserve full Twitter archives, and an important service for users overall. While I must embarrassingly confess that I’m not a very good Twitter user, I do want to be and this new service is great news!Read More →

kandelsmith is a company founded by Rita Smith, former Curator of the Baldwin Library of Historical Children’s Literature at the University of Florida, and her daughter. They’re remaking classic children’s books from the Baldwin Library at UF as interactive apps for the iPad. They’ve now released a new app: Twas the Night Before Christmas. It’s currently free in the iTunes store and highly recommended, along with their other two already released alphabet books and all are shown on the kandlesmith site. These are great apps to share! And, congratulations to Rita for moving from one alternative academic (or alt-ac) career as a curator to a new alt-ac careerRead More →

The job posting below is from the CODE4LIB list. As the Ohio State University charts a course from excellence to eminence, the University Libraries is seeking a leader with strong skills in innovation, analysis, and collaboration to develop collections that underpin this evolution. The Collections Strategist is responsible for devising and implementing strategy for collection building in a rapidly evolving scholarly communication environment and coordinates strategic collection building with innovative management of existing collections to embrace new models based on local, regional, and national partnerships. The Collections Strategist has Libraries-wide responsibility for building and managing the Libraries’ collections. The Libraries were recently ranked 5th among public research university byRead More →

The message below is from the SHARP email list. The Organizing Committee for the Philadelphia SHARP Conference 2013 announces a second Call for Submissions, for digital projects related to book history and bibliography. These may include but are not limited to research tools, apps and software, bibliographies or databases, corpora of media or texts, digitization initiatives, remediations, and interactive interfaces. We will exhibit up to 20 of these projects in a free-form session in which participants will be able to share their digital and new media work with an audience of nearly 300 conference delegates (faculty, librarians, administrators, independent scholars, graduate students). The Showcase willRead More →

The job posting below is from the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Announcements list. Digital Collections Librarian University of Chicago Library Full posting and application instructions available at: https://academiccareers.uchicago.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=52629 The University of Chicago Library invites applicants for the Digital Collections Librarian. Reporting to the Associate University Librarian for Digital Services, the Digital Collections Librarian leads the Library’s collection-building activities for locally-created digital materials. Establishes priorities, manages projects, coordinates cross-departmental workflows, participates in identifying digital collection development opportunities, and ensures that our locally-digitized collections are integrated into the overall collections and services. Working with the Library’s decentralized digital production environment, the Librarian facilitates communication between staff acrossRead More →

See the two sources below for the call for Anvil Academic Press’ call for proposals for the Anvil’s Built Upon Series, which is fabulous and is a needed best-match for many current scholarly projects: Anvil, Built Upon – Call for Proposals: http://anvilacademic.org/built-upon-call-for-proposals/ Digital Scholarship – Call for Submissions to Anvil’s Built Upon Series: http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/2012/12/03/call-for-submissions-to-anvils-built-upon-series/ This call for proposals is great news, and I look forward to hearing more and eventually, seeing the works in this series!Read More →

From the Digital Games Research Association email list DIGRA-ANNOUNCE@uta.fi: The Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) announces the Call for Participation for DiGRA 2013, to be hosted by Georgia Institute of Technology at the Georgian Terrace Hotel in Atlanta Georgia. DiGRA 2013 will bring together a diverse international community of interdisciplinary researchers engaged in cutting edge research in the field of game studies. Theme: DeFragging Game Studies This year’s proposed theme is a playful linguistic remix of the terms “frag” and “defrag.” Defragging is the computer term for reducing file fragmentation. Fragging, derived from the military term for killing a superior officer of one’s own unit, hasRead More →