Job alert! We’re hiring a Web Designer at University of Michigan to produce websites and digital content for our faculty and researchers. This position works closely with faculty, researchers and staff in the humanities, arts, and qualitative social sciences to plan, design, and coordinate new websites and digital media. These Digital Scholarship…[Read more]

Hello all! I’m a former academic and now the manager of the Partner and User Support Team at ITHAKA. We support resources you are probably familiar with, including JSTOR, Artstor, JSTOR Forum and Portico. We’re currently hiring for our Partner and User Support Specialist role, the role I started in 6 years ago when I made the decision to leave my…[Read more]

Applying for an academic job? The process can often be opaque and, unless your advisor is particularly helpful, you might feel alone in the process.

Never fear! In a recent blog post, former art history professor and department chair Matt Shoaf tells you how to research, write, and avoid common mistakes when applying for jobs as a…[Read more]

Crowdsourcing Friends,

I’m pleased to announce that Issue 2 of Startwords, a research periodical published by the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton, is now available. The issue, “Scribes,” includes four pieces that emerged from this spring’s Crowdsourcing and the Humanities conference, co-sponsored by the CDH, the Center for Research…[Read more]

Hello!

The Research Data and Digital Scholarship team at University of Pennsylvania Libraries is looking for a Contemporary Publishing Fellow, reporting to the Assistant University Librarian, Research Data and Digital Scholarship. The incumbent contributes to the team’s efforts to transform the digital publishing landscape by piloting a…[Read more]

Hey all,

The data scientists I’m working with are thinking about how Zooniverse tasks might fit into their NLP (natural language processing) research.

Until now, we’ve been working with images from digitised newspapers for our crowdsourcing tasks with this corpus / research area.

e.g. we run queries on metadata/OCR to find articles that might…[Read more]