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RECOMMENDED: Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities

Sep

22

2023

“Training Information Professionals in the Digital Humanities: An Analysis of DH Courses in LIS Education,” by Chris Alen Sula (Pratt Institute) and Claudia Berger (Sarah Lawrence College), provides a look at DH courses offered in LIS programs in light of the growth DH has seen since 2014 when it was identified as one of the ...

RECOMMENDED: DHQ Issue 17.2

Sep

22

2023

The most current issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ), issue 17.2, focuses on Critical Code Studies and Tools Criticism, which the editors define as “the application of the hermeneutics of the humanities to the interpretation of the extra-functional significance of computer source code. ‘Extra’ here does not mean ‘outside of’ or ‘apart from’ but instead ...

PROJECT: Mapping Racist Covenants

Sep

22

2023

The Mapping Racist Covenants project highlights neighborhoods and properties in the Tuscon, AZ area that contained racist language in their covenants, conditions, and restrictions (CCRs) during development, focusing on CCRs from 1912-1968. From the project’s website: The MRC project will deliver an interactive web-based map highlighting the geography of racist CCRs in Tucson that prevented African ...

POST: The Data Sitters Club #19: Shelley and the Bad Corpus

Sep

22

2023

DCS#19 of The Data Sitters Club, a project that applies “digital humanities computational text analysis tools and methods” to a popular book series from the 1990s, looks at the corpus of works that make up the collection. The author of this chapter, “Shelley and the Bad Corpus,” Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University), worked with Prof. Shelley ...

RESOURCE: Text on Maps Help Guide

Sep

22

2023

Text on Maps has collected pieces of text from 57,000 georeferenced maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection and made them searchable with mapKurator, allowing users to search within the contents of text on maps, rather than just the metadata. From the site: “While library patrons have become used to searching books via their content ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Virtual Podcasting Workshop Series

Sep

22

2023

The Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University’s Libraries will host a free, virtual, 5-part workshop series on scholarly podcasting. All workshops will be hosted on Zoom, from 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Pacific Time. The workshop dates and descriptions for the semester are: September 29: Why Podcast? October 6: Recording your Podcast October ...

EVENT: Beyond Black Data Reading Group

Sep

22

2023

Join faculty, researchers, and those interested in “exploring ideas around community-based data analytics (CBDA), a collaborative approach to data that involves community members in the collection, management, and analysis of data in their communities” in a reading group throughout the semester. Each meeting will be the last Friday of each month, and will feature the ...

CFP: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Virtual Professional Development Program

Sep

22

2023

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section’s Professional Development Committee (PDC) has announced a call for proposals for its 2023 DSS virtual professional development series. The series is a collaboration between the Outreach Committee and the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and will focus on topics identified from a recent survey of the DSS community. Proposals will ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Utah

Sep

22

2023

The Digital Humanities Utah Executive Committee is currently accepting proposals for the 8th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU8) to take place February 23-24, 2024. Session formats include panel presentations, complete panels, roundtables, and hands-on workshops, and suggested topics of interest include computational and digital approaches to humanistic research, humanistic examinations of the computational and the ...

CFP: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium

Sep

22

2023

From the Call: The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, and Universidad San Francisco de Quito will host their second Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium at Universidad San Francisco Quito in Quito, Ecuador from Thursday, July 4 – Saturday July 6, 2024. This symposium will offer a mix of in-person and virtual sessions. We seek proposals for papers, posters, and lightning rounds, on any topic related ...

OPPORTUNITY: Early Modern Digital Itineraries

Sep

22

2023

Early Modern Digital Itineraries, or EmDigIt, is looking for participants to attend 3 virtual workshops and 1 in-person conference toward developing a database of traveler itinerary books published between 1500-1750 and will provide a stipend for lodging and travel for the conference, slated for August 2024 at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New ...