Category: Survey

CFP: Survey on Digital Humanities/Digital Skills Workshops

The Implementing New Knowledge Environment (INKE) invites people who have taken part in a digital humanities or digital skills workshop in the last five years (2019-2023) as a learner, instructor, and/or organizer to participate in a survey about Digital Humanities/Digital Skills Workshops. From the survey instrument:

If you HAVE ATTENDED, TAUGHT, and/or ORGANIZED digital humanities/digital skills workshops, in person or online, between the years 2019-2023, we want to hear from you! We’ll ask you to provide feedback about your experiences, including benefits and/or challenges, and your opinions on these workshops, as well as your thoughts on future workshops.

If you have NOT ATTENDED, TAUGHT, or ORGANIZED workshops between 2019-2023 (or ever!), we still want to hear from you! We will ask you to provide feedback about factors that may have impacted your decisions not to participate in the past and about your thoughts on future workshops.

The survey should take no more than 20 minutes, depending on your responses and interests. This research has been approved by the ethics boards at the Universities of Ottawa, Guelph, and Victoria. This survey is supported by the Integrating New Knowledge Environments partnership (INKE.ca, PI Ray Siemens, University of Victoria) and The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques (cc:DH/HN).

The survey is headed by Bridget Moynihan (University of Ottawa) in collaboration with Kelly Hughes (University of Guelph). The survey is supervised by Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier University), Kim Martin (University of Guelph), Susan Brown (University of Guelph), and Constance Crompton (University of Ottawa). Questions for the research team can be directed to bmoyniha@uottawa.ca.

Definitions
We use the following terms in this survey:

  • Workshops: Training that occurs outside of specific degree or diploma programs. The workshops can take place online or in person. They can happen on campuses, in public libraries, at conferences, at dedicated institute events, or elsewhere. They can be as short as an hour or take place over multiple weeks.
  • Digital Humanities Workshops: Any workshop that was described by the organizers/instructors as a digital humanities workshop, whether it was teaching strictly technical skills or skills that support digital humanities work, such as project management.
  • Digital Skills Workshops: Workshops that are not labeled as digital humanities specifically, but teach digital skills and contribute to digital humanities practices.

CFParticipation: Digital Preservation Services in Digital Scholarship Centers Survey Participation

Digital humanities/digital scholarship librarians and staff are invited to participate in a brief online survey about digital preservation practices at digital scholarship centers (including digital humanities centers) in the United States. This survey is primarily multiple-choice, and we anticipate it will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.

This research is focused on digital scholarship centers, including digital humanities labs, and target participants are digital scholarship center employees at US colleges and universities. A PDF of the survey is available to review before taking the survey.
Please complete the survey at your earliest convenience, but no later than October 21, 2019. If you have any comments, questions, or concerns, we encourage you to contact the PI at mnarlock@nd.edu.

CFParticipation: Digital Preservation Outreach + Education Training Needs Assessment

Barrie Howard (Library of Congress) has written a post inviting participation in the 2014 Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Training Needs Assessment Survey.

The DPOE Program of the Library of Congress is concerned with “building a collaborative network of instructors and partners to provide training to individuals and organizations seeking to preserve their digital content.” The survey aims “to scan the information sector to get a sense of the state of digital preservation practice, and identify the capacity of organizations and professionals to effectively preserve digital content.” Results will inform future developments in the curriculum and training modules of the program.

RESOURCE: The Lib Pub blog

Lib Pub, a new group blog on library publishing, launched in January 2013. As blog founder Melanie Schlosser, the Digital Publishing Librarian at Ohio State University Libraries, writes in an introductory post:

“Publishing efforts in libraries are becoming more and more common, but there aren’t yet a lot of venues for those involved to come together and share their thoughts and experiences. The Lib Pub is meant to be one.”

This week, Schlosser issued a call for those whose work involves both DH and library publishing to contact her. She writes:

“I’m curious about how many  of you have both publishing and DH in your job description, or have a humanities focus in your publishing program, or work with a DH center in some way.”

 

Do You TEI? A Survey of Text Encoding Practices in Libraries

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION!

If you work in a library and have any experience with text encoding projects, from web development to project management, please consider participating in a new survey, available here.

Completing the survey should take no more than 30 minutes, and will help academic libraries develop strategic initiatives based on current practice.

From the announcement:

Following on papers, presentations and discussions that resulted from the theme of the 2009 Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium, “Text Encoding in the Era of Mass Digitization,” the launch of the AccessTEI program in 2010, and the recent release of the “Best Practices for TEI in Libraries” in 2011, it behooves us—stewards of text encoding initiatives in academic libraries—to better understand if and how text encoding practices have changed as a result of mass digitization by Google, declining budgets, and an increased emphasis on streamlined digital library services in support of speedier and more voluminous online content production and publishing.

The study is being conducted by Michelle Dalmau, Digital Projects and Usability Librarian for the Indiana University Digital Library Program, and Kevin Hawkins, Head of Publishing Production for MPublishing, University of Michigan Library.