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RECOMMENDED: Diversity of Digital Humanities in IJHAC: Exemplary Publications, 2012-2022 Virtual Issue

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The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities has published a virtual special issue, “Diversity of Digital Humanities in IJHAC: Exemplary Publications, 2012-2022,” which makes available selected pieces from the last decade of the journal’s publications. From the introduction: IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities has been published since 1989, ...

PROJECT: Visualizing Caribbean Literature

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2023

Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL) is an interactive database of literary works by Caribbean people or about the Caribbean experience, led by Schuyler Esprit (Create Caribbean Research Institute) and the students of HIS115: Digital Humanities Research at Dominica State College. From the home page: The database includes authors and titles that represents the diversity of the ...

POST: The Digital Campaigns Project

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2023

Writing for the Archive-It blog, Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod (University of South Carolina, Department of Political Science) describes the context and creation of the Digital Campaigns Project, a database of U.S. state legislative campaign websites from 2016-2022 that enables researchers to examine variation in state partisan agendas and rhetoric. The project, initially begun in 2016, is led ...

RESOURCE: (In)Accessibility and the Technocratic Library

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2023

The most recent special issue of First Monday, the online open-access journal devoted to studies of the Internet, is entitled “This feature has been disabled: Critical intersections of disability and information studies.” One contribution to this special issue, “(In)accessibility and the technocratic library: Addressing institutional failures in library adoption of emerging technologies,” focuses on the ...

RESOURCE: Making Sense of Digital Humanities

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2023

Making Sense of Digital Humanities by Julian Chambliss and Ellen Moll (both Michigan State University) is now available in a multitude of formats (an online Pressbooks edition, as an eBook, PDF, XML, or ODF). From the introduction: Our experience as teacher-scholars engaged with DH in and out of the classroom affords us some sense of the ...

RESOURCE: Poised at the Crossroads: Preservation and Public Access to Humanities Research

Mar

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2023

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has shared a talk from Sara Palmer and Lois Overbeck (both Emory University), entitled “Poised at the Crossroads: Preservation and Public Access to Humanities Research.” From the video description: Large, long-term humanities projects leave a wake of research that may become inaccessible or lost when publication is complete. Following ...

EVENT: DHSI 2023

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2023

Registration is now available for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2023 at the University of Victoria. The theme for 2023 is “A Place for Open Scholarship.” DHSI takes place June 5-9 on-campus and June 12-16 online. From the registration page: After several years of adjusting in-person plans and three successful years of online editions, we ...

EVENT: Data4Justice Conference 2023

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2023

Registration is open for the Data4Justice Conference 2023. Held online Friday, April 28, 2023, this event features a keynote by Elie Mystal, the Justice Correspondent for The Nation, author, and legal contributor to the More Perfect podcast on WNYC. Other presentations include: The Small town police accountability (STOPA) toolkit and research lab The Stopping trafficking ...

EVENT: Jackson State University Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series

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2023

The Diversity Working Group (DWG) at the University of Toronto and the Department of Arts and Theatre at Jackson State University are hosting the Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series in March and April. As the landing page describes, In a recently published special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on Black Digital Humanities, editors Alanna Prince and Cara ...

EVENT: CDHI Visiting Speaker Series: Allie Martin on Black Sonic Life

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2023

The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) at the University of Toronto is hosting a talk by Allie Martin (Dartmouth College), tentatively entitled “Black Covid Care: Building Sonic Constellations of Black Life.” From the talk description: Her work is attuned to questions of race, sound and power. Her forthcoming first book, Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic ...

CFP: 2023 CLIR Events: DLF Forum, Learn@DLF, and Digital Preservation 2023

Mar

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2023

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has released the call for proposals for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, Learn@DLF, and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Digital Preservation conference. All three allied events will be held in-person in St. Louis, MO in mid-November: the Learn@DLF pre-conference on November 12, DLF Forum November ...