In partial answer to Bethany‘s charge in her recent ProfHacker piece “it starts on day one,” I’m very excited to introduce a cross-institutional effort between the Scholars’ Lab and the School of Information at UT-Austin to mentor two UT graduate students in the iSchool as they work to develop a DH tool for the DH community. The…. More.
seeking a Senior Research Specialist for SCI
I’m pleased to share a formal job posting for an 18-month research-and-writing position with the Scholarly Communication Institute. The posting is limited to current employees of the Unversity of Virginia for four business days, after which it will open more broadly.* It’s a short-term position, but an excellent opportunity to work with SCI leadership and…. More.
Mapping the Catalogue of Ships
I’m very pleased to share a guest post by UVa Classics professor Jenny Strauss Clay, describing a new project we’ve undertaken at the Scholars’ Lab. We’re excited not only at the opportunity to use GIS techniques to test Professor Clay’s theories about the relation of ancient geography to mnemonic devices and poetic form, but also…. More.
The Mappy Goodness that is GIS Day in the Scholars’ Lab
Every November on the Wednesday of Geography Awareness Week the world celebrates GIS Day. On that day in Charlottesville the geospatial community gathers in the Scholars’ Lab for mappy goodness. And cake. In 2010 we threw open the Scholars’ Lab doors for folks to present geospatial lightning talks. We were impressed by the breadth of…. More.
Fall 2011 Workshop Series
We’d like to invite you to our workshop series this fall. Chris Gist and Kelly Johnston have created eight GIS workshops designed to take attendees from learning to create their first map using ArcGIS10 to mapping the world with Open Street Map. The series starts Tuesday, October 11, and will run weekly through November 29.…. More.
Fedora Connector – New and Improved
This week we’re pleased to announce that we’ve finished up the first pass on a major redesign of our Fedora Connector plugin for Omeka. Fedora Connector makes it possible to connect an Omeka site to a Fedora Commons repository. After entering basic information about the location of the Fedora repository, you can create linkages between…. More.
Omeka Development with Vagrant
For the latest information about this system, please see the README file. It contains this information, plus I’ll keep it up-to-date. One of the biggest annoyances in a developer’s life is managing the software required to work on several different projects. Usually, this doesn’t just mean having different systems or programming languages, but having different…. More.
grad student jobs in Scholars’ Lab R&D
Are you a maker? A builder? A tinkerer at heart? The Scholars’ Lab in Alderman Library seeks energetic and imaginative UVa graduate students from all disciplines looking to hone their digital skills. Interested in cutting-edge technologies for the digital humanities and interpretive or humanistic social sciences? Want hands-on experience in project management and the design…. More.
Welcoming Eric Johnson!
We’re proud to announce that Eric Johnson will join the faculty of UVa Library’s Digital Research and Scholarship department this July as Head of Outreach & Consulting. In his new role, Eric will direct day-to-day public services in the Library’s vibrant Scholars’ Lab and help to coordinate our intellectual programming as well as our transformative…. More.
Welcoming David McClure!
We’re delighted to welcome our new Web Applications Specialist, David McClure, to the Scholars’ Lab R&D team. David graduated from Yale University with a degree in Humanities in 2009, and has been working as an independent web developer in San Francisco, New York, and Madison, Wisconsin for the last few years. David is the creator…. More.