Kick off the term with us at our New Media and Culture Certificate (NMCC) Open House on Monday, January 22. Join us between 3 and 5 pm PT in the UO DREAM Lab, located on the first floor of Knight Library in room 122.

There’ll be time to meet NMCC staff, learn more about the certificate, and connect with NMCC affiliates over light snacks and beverages. We will also be welcoming ideas for future programming you want to see take place.

This is a casual gathering, so drop by as your schedule allows.

The University of Virginia Press seeks to hire an Editorial and Technical Specialist within our Rotunda division (http://www.upress.virginia.edu/rotunda/), which digitally publishes peer-reviewed scholarly works. The successful candidate will be working primarily on our American History collections : (https://www.upress.virginia.edu/rotunda/#ahc) and other Rotunda publications as needed. This full-time staff position reports to the Director of Digital Publishing.

The Rotunda Digital Imprint, founded in 2001, publishes peer-reviewed digital projects, both born-digital and from authoritative letterpress editions. Our collections span three centuries, from George Washington to Richard Nixon, comprising over 300,000 documents, diary entries, editorial essays, audio recordings and transcriptions. In addition, we publish seven scholarly editions of works of literature, a biographical database of the Founding Era, and an open-access encyclopedia of American Architecture. The new Editorial and Technical Specialist will be an integral part of the Rotunda team and play an essential role in maintaining the quality and stability of these collections as we make large upgrades to our Rotunda back-end infrastructure and front-end user interfaces.

The successful candidate will have a solid background in digital humanities and/or digital library skills and projects. Experience with XML and XML editing is a requirement, and ideally with related programming technologies such as XSLT and XQuery. Other relevant skills would include general Web development and programming (HTML/CSS, JavaScript), familiarity with working in Mac OS and command-line tools, version-control systems (Git or Subversion) and experience or interest with metadata standards and controlled vocabularies. A background in traditional documentary editing would be a plus.

This position may have the ability to be remote in exceptional circumstances. Salary Range- $50,000-$60,000

Responsibilities will include:

• Administer the workflow for adding new publications and new content to the Rotunda American History Collection, including:
  • Creation of XML templates and metadata for letterpress volumes
  • Receive and verify content returned by XML conversion vendor or project editors
  • For new letterpress content or born-digital content delivered as XML, convert to Rotunda format
  • Perform quality assurance, formatting and proofreading of the digital editions, and addition of links and metadata
  • Prepare scans of page images and/or PDF volumes for web display; edit graphics for web display
• Help prepare Rotunda metadata for normalization and reconciliation to controlled vocabularies for linked data sharing
• Organize and/or facilitate user interviews for UX review of AHC publications
• Serve as the contact person for queries sent to Founders Online (https://founders.archives.gov), communicating with editors as necessary
• Coordinate with Rotunda advisory committee members for scheduling quarterly meetings
• Engage with other DH and Digital Editing departments within the University and beyond, attending events, lectures and formal collaborations
• Collaborate with the Rotunda team and the Press on new ideas and opportunities
• Incumbents who have or can acquire solid skills in web development will also participate in extending the functionality and features of our Rotunda publications

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
Education: Bachelor’s degree
Experience: At least one year of directly relevant work experience. May be considered in lieu of a degree.
Licensure: None

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong skills in working with XML documents, schemas and namespaces
• Strong skills in transforming XML documents using XSLT and XPath
• Basic knowledge of HTML and CSS (for minor edits)
• Comfort and familiarity with Mac OS and/or Linux
• Comfort with using command-line tools and version-control systems (Git, Subversion)
• Willingness to learn new skills and technologies
• Experience and/or interest in User Experience Design for web interfaces
• Experience and/or interest in Linked Data, data modeling, or ontologies
• Experience and/or interest in documentary editing, publishing and digital humanities

Desired Education and Experience:
M.A. with 2 years of practical experience in digital humanities desired.

ABOUT THE PRESS: The University of Virginia Press was founded in 1963 to advance the intellectual interests not only of the University of Virginia, but of institutions of higher learning throughout the state. A member of the Association of University Presses, UVAP currently publishes seventy to eighty new titles annually and operates a successful digital imprint, Rotunda. UVAP is located in beautiful Charlottesville, Virginia, a historic and diverse intellectual and entrepreneurial community near the Blue Ridge Mountains with exceptional music, arts, food, sports, and other cultural resources.

We are currently following a hybrid work schedule requiring attendance two days per week in the Charlottesville office.

This position will remain open till it is filled. Review of applications will begin on Nov 27th, 2023 with an anticipated start date of on, or before, Jan 15th, 2024. This is an Exempt level, benefited position. Salary is commensurate with education and experience. Relocation funds are available. The University will perform background checks on all new hires prior to employment. For questions about the position or the application process, please contact Bill Crane, Academic Recruiter at xer5ff@virginia.edu

How to Apply:
Applications that do not contain all of the required documents will not receive full consideration; please note that multiple documents can be uploaded in the box.

Process for External Applicants: Please apply through Workday, and search for R0054553. Complete an application online and attach a cover letter, CV/resume

Process for Internal UVA Applicants: Please apply through your Workday Home page, search “Find Jobs,” and search for R0054553. Complete an application online and attach a cover letter.

The University of Virginia, including the UVA Health System which represents the UVA Medical Center, Schools of Medicine and Nursing, UVA Physician’s Group and the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, are fundamentally committed to the diversity of our faculty and staff.  We believe diversity is excellence expressing itself through every person’s perspectives and lived experiences.  We are equal opportunity and affirmative action employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, color, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, national or ethnic origin, political affiliation, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, veteran status, and family medical or genetic information.

• Performant Software Solutions, a digital humanities software development company, is hiring an Assistant Project Manager.
• UO Libraries is hiring a Humanities Research Data Management Course Assistant GE for the winter term.
• Applications for the Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Innovation Fellowship are due October 25.
• The Oregon Heritage Fellowship for Oregon students researching Oregon is due November 2.
• Native Voices Endowment: A Lewis & Clark Bicentennial Legacy Project applications are due November 3.
• Optional draft submissions for the National Endowment for Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grants are due November 13.
• Harvey Mudd College Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies is due December 10.
• Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships and Postdoctoral Fellowships are due December 12.

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Harvey Mudd College Hixon-Riggs Early Career Fellowship in Science and Technology Studies

Welcome to the fall term, New Media and Culture certificate network! We’re excited to continue supporting your work on and beyond campus. As the year progresses, here’s a quick reintroduction to this year’s NMCC team.

Interim Director Mattie Burkert (she/they) is an Associate Professor in the Department of English at the University of Oregon. Dr. Burkert directs the Minor in Digital Humanities and is a scholar of digital humanities, early modern and eighteenth-century literature, theater and performance, and the histories of science, technology, and gender.

Program Assistant Zoë Gamell Brown (she/they) is a Ph.D. student in the University of Oregon Indigenous, Race, and Ethnic Studies’ inaugural cohort, and they are pursuing a New Media Culture certificate. Zoë’s research explores the shoals where race and Indigeneity meet within Boviander ecologies, using critical autotheory to practice creative, culinary, and spiritual care.

We look forward to continuing to connect with and grow the NMCC network on campus and virtually. If you are receiving this email as a current or prospective student, know that NMCC is here to support your interests and new approaches to digital technology, collaboration, creativity, and scholarship. If you want to add the NMCC to your degree, contact us at nmcc@uoregon.edu.

Kick off the term with us at our NMCC Open House on Friday, October 20. Join us between 2:30 and 4:30 pm PT in the UO DREAM Lab, located on the first floor of Knight Library in room 122.

There’ll be time to meet NMCC staff, learn more about the certificate, and connect with NMCC affiliates over light snacks and beverages. We will also be welcoming ideas for future programming you want to see take place.

This is a casual gathering, so drop by as your schedule allows.

Conference Co-Chairs:  

• Bryce Newell – University of Oregon
• Joshua Reeves – Oregon State University

Theme:

The 2023 Oregon Surveillance Studies Workshop welcomes proposals from scholars across disciplines to workshop works-in-progress papers that focus on issues of surveillance and/in society, with a particular emphasis on scholarship that brings media, communication, or information studies perspectives to these issues. Our broad theme is focused on the interconnections between “Media, Information, and Surveillance.” Proposals that align with the theme of the conference will receive some priority in the selection process. By framing the conference theme around issues of media, information, and surveillance, we hope to foster connections and dialogue about how approaching and understanding emerging surveillance practices and technologies from media studies, communication theory, information science, and critical data studies perspectives can provide new insights or open new directions for surveillance studies research. For example: How can theories, concepts, and approaches from media studies and the information sciences inform how we conceptualize, study, and regulate emerging forms of data-intensive surveillance?

Dates and deadlines:

• Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2023
• Acceptance/rejection decisions back to authors: July 22, 2023
• Registration (early bird) deadline: August 18, 2023
• Author/Discussant/Commenter final registration deadline: Sept. 16, 2023
• Full drafts* of accepted papers due: Sept. 16, 2023 (full drafts not submitted by this date will be withdrawn from the program)
• Conference dates: October 12-13, 2023

*Important note about full drafts: Proposals will be accepted on the basis of abstracts, but full drafts of accepted papers must be submitted in time for discussants and other participants to read and prepare comments as noted below. These need not be final, polished drafts, but they should be substantially complete. They should also be at a stage where feedback can be incorporated into the papers prior to submission for publication. If authors of accepted abstracts do not submit a full draft paper by the Sept. 16 deadline, their paper will be removed from the program and will not be workshopped at the conference.

Submission instructions:

Participation Note: There will be opportunities to participate at the conference even if you do not submit a paper. For example, we will be assigning Discussants for each paper at the conference (as authors will not present their own work). If you have an interest in serving as a discussant for a paper at the conference, please sign up for updates via our listserv https://lists.uoregon.edu/mailman/listinfo/ssnoregon2023-discussants or check the conference website for updated information later this summer.

Authors should submit an abstract as part of their application to have their research workshopped at the conference. Your abstracts should be in English and be between 500 and 700 words. You should clearly and concisely link your ideas and research to existing scholarly literature (and fully reference cited literature in a references section following your abstract). Abstracts should identify the theories, concepts, methods, and conclusions of your paper, and should also demonstrate your awareness and understanding of the existing relevant literature and explain how your work relates to, informs, or diverges from the existing body of knowledge. If you wish to cite your own work in your abstract, you should refer to your work in the third person – for example, “As Newell and Reeves (2023) argued,” instead of something like “in our prior work….”  Please remember that substantially completed full drafts (which need not be polished but should be complete enough for meaningful discussion and feedback during the conference) will be required for all accepted proposals. Finally, there is no opportunity nor obligation to publish papers workshopped at the conference.

Note: Abstracts which reveal the identity of the author(s), are not accompanied by full references to prior work (those cited in the abstract), or which are significantly below 500 words or above 700 words will be rejected without review.

You should submit your abstracts through EasyChair.

Questions?

For a full description of the workshop visit the workshop call for paper webpage.

Please direct any of your questions to the conference co-chairs, Bryce Newell (bcnewell@uoregon.edu) and Joshua Reeves (reevejos@oregonstate.edu). Please put “SSN Oregon 2023” in the subject line of your email.

 

UO Libraries has great skills & community building events all Spring term. For the detailed schedule of the when/where/what of their coding workshop, book club, co-working sessions and reference manager workshops check out the UO Libraries’ Data Services events page.