Archivist, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Posted: April 30, 2008 Filed under: Opportunities: Job Postings | Tags: archives, foundations, Henry Moore, sculpture Comments OffHoused at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds’ important and extensive designated sculpture collections are supported by a major archive of sculptors’ papers covering the 18th century to the present day which form an important research facility. The Henry Moore Institute is a partnership between Leeds Museums & Galleries and The Henry Moore Foundation.
You will be responsible for the care of the sculpture archive, developing its accessibility by means of facilitating research, publications and exhibitions. You will respond to visitor enquiries, searchroom needs and provide archival advice.
The post would suit a qualified archivist with experience of cataloguing with CALM, international archival standards and preservation knowledge. You will contribute to the joint collections care and development of Leeds Museums & Galleries support the programme of the Institute. You will have a clear understanding of both physical and intellectual audience access issues, an interest in sculpture or late 19th/early 20th century history and the have the ability to prioritise and manage your own workload.
We promote diversity and want a workforce that reflects the population of Leeds
Job information can be downloaded at http://www.leeds.gov.uk/jobs or alternatively, please contact the council’s recruitment service on 0113 224 3357
Closing date 5:00pm, 8th May 2008
Digital Initiatives and Systems Librarian/Coordinator
Posted: April 30, 2008 Filed under: Opportunities: Job Postings Comments OffThe University of the Arts University Libraries seeks an innovative, creative, and service-oriented individual to develop, implement, evaluate, and revise digital initiatives including the Libraries’ Web site and use of Web 2.0 tools, manage its electronic collections and services, and provide overall administrative support for the Libraries’ computer systems including its Innovative Interfaces, Inc. Millennium integrated library system and digital content management systems (MDID and CONTENTdm). The incumbent will also coordinate support of the Libraries’ electronic systems and activities with the University’s information technology department. Serves, with other librarians, as an advisor to the Director of University Libraries on overall library policies and services, specifically providing advice and expertise on emerging technological trends and developments in academic libraries. Reports to the Director of University Libraries.
Qualifications: An ALA-accredited master’s degree in library and information science preferred. Will consider equivalent advanced academic qualification in information technology. At least one year experience managing an integrated library system, preferably the Innovative Interfaces, Inc. system, and/or experience managing a digital content management system. Demonstrated experience developing Web sites and Web 2.0 technologies for delivery of digital content and services. Working knowledge of metadata standards and Web authoring tools. Experience in higher education, preferably in an academic library setting with some reference responsibilities. Background and/or strong interest in the arts preferred.
Application Deadline: Applications will be reviewed as received. For full consideration, please apply by May 30, 2008.
Interested applicants should send resume to: Digital Initiatives and Systems Librarian/Coordinator Search, Personnel Services Department, The University of the Arts, 320 South Broad St., Philadelphia, PA 19102 or email personnel@uarts.edu.
For more information, see the Digital Initiatives and Systems Library/Coordinator listing at http://www.uarts.edu/about/jobs.html. For information about the University, visit: www.uarts.edu.
Excellent benefits. EOE
Call for Papers: Chicago Digital Humanities Colloquium
Posted: April 30, 2008 Filed under: Opportunities: Calls for Papers | Tags: colloquium, computer science, digital humanities, digitization, MOMA, new media, theory Comments OffDear Friends,
The Call for Papers for the Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium ( Nov 1st-3rd, 2008 ) has now been published on the Colloquium website (http://dhcs.uchicago.edu). On behalf of the organizing committee, I would like to encourage you to submit proposals for the 2008 DHCS and look forward to seeing you again in Chicago!
with best regards,
Arno Bosse
Senior Director of Technology
Division of the Humanities
University of Chicago
1115 E. 58th St., Walker Room 001B
Chicago, IL 60637
Phone: 773-702-6177
Fax: 773-834-5867
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Call for Papers: 2008 Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science Colloquium
Sponsored by the Humanities Division, the Computational Institute, NSIT Academic Technologies and the University Library at the University of Chicago, Northwestern University and the College of Science and Letters at the Illinois Institute of Technology.
DHCS Colloquium, November 1st – 3rd, 2008 Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008
The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities as a field of intellectual inquiry and to identify and explore new directions and perspectives for future research. In 2006, the first DHCS Colloquium examined the challenges and opportunities posed by the “million books” digitization projects. The second DHCS Colloquium in 2007 focused on searching and querying as tools and methodologies.
The theme of the third Chicago DHCS Colloquium is “Making Sense”- an exploration of how meaning is created and apprehended at the transition of the digital and the analog.
We encourage submissions from scholars and researchers on all topics that intersect current theory and practice in the Humanities and Computer Science.
Website:
Location:
The University of Chicago
Ida Noyes Hall
1212 East 59th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Keynote Speakers:
Oren Etzioni is Director of the Turing Center and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Washington where his current research interests include fundamental problems in the study of artificial intelligence, web search, machine reading, and machine learning. Etzioni was the founder of Farecast, a company that utilizes data mining techniques to anticipate airfare fluctuations, and the KnowItAll project, which is is building domain-independent systems to extract information from the Web in an autonomous, scalable manner. Etzioni has published extensively in his field and served as an Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on the Web and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, amongst others.
Stephen Downie is Associate Professor in the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include the design and evaluation of IR systems, including multimedia music information retrieval, the political economy of inter-networked communication systems, database design and web-based technologies. Downie is the principal investigator of the International Music Information Retrieval Systems Evaluation Laboratory (IMIRSEL), which is working on producing a large, secure corpus of audio and symbolic music data accessible to the music information retrieval (MIR) community.
Martin Wattenberg is a computer scientist and new media artist whose work focuses on the visual explorations of culturally significant data (http://www.bewitched.com). He is the founding manager of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, which researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable better collaboration. The lab’s latest project is Many Eyes, an experiment in open, public data visualization and analysis. Wattenberg is also known for his visualization-based artwork, which has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art.
Program Committee:
* Shlomo Argamon, Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology * Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
* John Goldsmith, Department of Linguistics, Computer Science, Computation Institute, University of Chicago
* Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library
* Robert Morrissey, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
* Martin Mueller, Department of English and Classics, Northwestern University
* Mark Olsen, Associate Director of the ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
* Jason Salavon, Department of Visual Arts, Computation Institute, University of Chicago
* Kotoka Suzuki, Department of Music, Visual Arts, University of Chicago
Call for Participation:
Participation in the colloquium is open to all. We welcome submissions for:
* Paper presentations (20 minute maximum)
* Poster sessions
* Software demonstrations
* Performances
Suggested submission topics:
* Visualizing Large Data: Lessons from Industry & Big Science
* Computing Cinematic Syntax
* Linguistic and Literary Perspectives on Data Mining
* Social Scholarship / Socialized Search
* Agent Based Modelling
* Cartography and the Digital Traveler
* Serious Gaming
* Programming Algorithmic Art
* Statistical Analyses and Literary Meaning
* From a Maze of Twisty Passages: Future Interactive Fiction
* Representing Reading Time
* Hacking the Wiimote / Pwning the iPhone
* Polyglot Machines: Machine Translation
* The Subjectivity of Visualization
* Schemas for Scholars: Historicizing Machine Learning Ontologies
* Computational Stylistics
* Deconstructing Machine Learning
* The Library Catalog as Social Network: Library 2.0
* Mapping Social Relationships in the Novel
* Tagging Texts for Scholarly Practice
* Exploring Augmented Reality Systems
Submission Format:
Please submit a (2 page maximum) abstract in Adobe PDF (preferred) or MS Word format to dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu.
Graduate Student Travel Fund:
A limited number of bursaries are available to assist graduate students who are presenting at the colloquium with their travel and accommodation expenses. No separate application form is required. Current graduate students whose proposals have been accepted for the colloquium will be contacted by the organizers with more details.
Important Dates:
Deadline for Submissions: Monday, August 31st
Notification of Acceptance: Monday, September 15th
Full Program Announcement: Monday, September 22nd
Registration: Monday, September 22nd – Friday, October 24th
Colloquium: Saturday, November 1st – Monday, November 3rd
Contact Info:
Please direct all inquiries to: dhcs-submissions@listhost.uchicago.edu
Organizing Committee:
* Arno Bosse, Senior Director for Technology, Humanities Division, University of Chicago.
* Helma Dik, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
* Catherine Mardikes, Bibliographer for Classics, the Ancient Near East, and General Humanities, University of Chicago Library.
* Mark Olsen, Associate Director, ARTFL Project, University of Chicago
