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Resource: WordSeer 3.0

the Editors — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:30:49 +0000

WordSeer is a web-based text analysis and sensemaking environment for humanists and social scientists. It’s a a research project at UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division and School of Information.

Job: Data Specialist, Library of Congress

the Editors — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 18:00:56 +0000

The Information Technology Specialist (Data Specialist) provides technical support to the Office of Strategic Initiatives in a wide variety of activities related both to the transfer of digital data from sources outside and inside the Library, and to the movement of data across multiple applications and data stores within the Library.

Resource: Easy steps towards open scholarship

the Editors — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:30:47 +0000

Ross Mounce, Community Coordinator for Open Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation, presents the best ways to ensure discoverable access to research outputs. He highlights the metadata power of institutional repositories and other services like Zenodo. With a combination of preprint & postprint postings, it is easy to make your research freely available.

Report: AAU, APLU, and ARL: Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) Proposal

the Editors — Thu, 13 Jun 2013 17:00:40 +0000

The Association of American Universities, Association of Public
and Land-grant Universities, and ARL have released a draft of
the Shared Access Research Ecosystem (SHARE) proposal (PDF).

CFParticipation: THATCamp Publishing June 19, 2013

the Editors — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 19:00:17 +0000

THATCamp Publishing is an opportunity for the publishing community to discuss the practice and trajectory of scholarly communication. Both publishers and readers face the challenges of balancing print and digital methods of development, dissemination, and consumption. Everyone is experimenting new tools, structures, and services. Let’s get together to ask questions, discuss new approaches, share experiences, create new resources, and build a community network across trade, university, library, and institutional publishing.

THATCamp Publishing will take place on June 19 at Simmons College. Registration, breakfast, and lunch are all free thanks to our sponsors. Visit the Register page to sign up!

THATCamp Publishing Basics | THATCamp Publishing 2013.

Resource: Prism

the Editors — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:30:51 +0000

Prism is a tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation.” Users are invited to provide an interpretation of a text by highlighting words according to different categories, or “facets.” Each individual interpretation then contributes to the generation of a visualization which demonstrates the combined interpretation of all the users. We envision Prism as a tool for both pedagogical use and scholarly exploration, revealing patterns that exist in the subjective experience of reading a text.

prism.scholarslab.org

Resource: OpenDAHT

the Editors — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 18:00:23 +0000

OpenDAHT is an initiative aimed at the development, maintenance and provision of digital tools and resources for use within various fields of arts and humanities scholarship. All software supported by OpenDAHT is released as freeware, and in some cases, under open source licensing. OpenDAHT always welcomes new contributors.

http://dhnow.org/168zVkH

Resource: Understanding CHORUS, from the Association of American Publishers

the Editors — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:30:57 +0000

What is CHORUS?
The Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States
(CHORUS) is a framework for a possible public-private
partnership to increase public access to peer-reviewed
publications that report on federally-funded research.http://dhnow.org/ZHbCsC

Job: Virtual Mappa Research Associate Internship, applications due June 16

the Editors — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 17:00:52 +0000

In liaison with the Virtual Mappa Project Team, the Research Associate will work within the Cartographic and Topographical Materials section towards development of content and tools as related to medieval maps and geographic texts.

Job Details.

CFParticipation: Digital Historians | for people who do more than use The Google

the Editors — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 16:30:33 +0000

Lots of active historians do digital work, and we should be doing more to connect with one another so that we know about ongoing work and can foster collaboration.

So, register yourself, and you can tell us about your work, your ideas, and the ways that you are interacting with other digital historians. Join a Group or start one. Get involved.

Digital Historians | for people who do more than use The Google.