The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques (cc:DH/HN) is an opportunity to earn a certificate based on attending 100 hours of eligible DH workshops; anyone is eligible to apply for a certificate “regardless of institutional affiliation or citizenship.”
Learn more about the certificate and what counts as an eligible workshop, and check out their calendar of upcoming DH workshops offered by cc:DH/HN-affiliated organizations.
From the job posting:
Governors State University invites qualified candidates to apply for the position of Digital Scholarship and Technology Librarian (DSTL) for our University Library. The Digital Scholarship and Technology Librarian (DSTL) manages library technology services and platforms that support discovery, learning, teaching, and research activities. This position is a strategic amalgamation of data services through effective stewardship of the library’s digital infrastructure, and support of data-intensive research and instructional projects. Specifically, managing the library’s evolving digital footprint, and serving as instructional technologist & data services librarian, this strategically blended position supports student success through scholarship discovery, production, and curation. This position supports the Library Department Chair by strategically activating digital services including data management planning, aggregation & digitization, content development and distribution channeling in support of digital literacy, digital scholarship, and the digital scholar. This position is part of the overall strategy of positively affecting student and faculty retention through developing and sustaining platforms for e-scholarship and e-portfolios.
Essential ResponsibilitiesDigital Infrastructure (50%) — Develop, implement, and maintain a robust and user-friendly digital spaceInstructional Technologist (30%) — Support faculty and students’ use of digital tools and methods in research and learning through consultations, project support, workshops and training programs, and curricular engagementData Services (20%) — Develop and maintain outreach to educate students and faculty about open access, copyright, IPR, and means to advance data-centric scholarly communications
From the posting:
Department: Archaeology
Salary: £36,024 – £44,263 a yearContract status: Fixed termHours of work: Full-timeBased at: University of York – King’s Manor (with some remote working options available)Interview date: 12 January 2024Role
The role is primarily designed to improve and evolve the current metadata pipelines and processes at the ADS in tandem with our work with International Partners, and act as the strategic and best-practice lead for metadata within the organisation. This will involve working on enhancements for enriching ADS metadata and practical work including integration of controlled vocabularies and gazetteers, mapping to metadata standards and ontologies, and (meta)data wrangling, cleaning, and transformation. It will include both hands-on work, and an advisory role with regard to current metadata management best practice, and helping to design the ongoing organisational strategy for metadata management.
Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, a book by Matthew K. Gold (CUNY Graduate Center) and Lauren F. Klein (Emory University) looks at digital humanities in 2023, presenting “a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environmental crises; a global pandemic; and the deepening of austerity regimes in U.S. higher education.” This is the fourth volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series. Topics such as the queer gap in cultural analytics, the challenges and possibilities of social media data, and black womanhood in digital spaces are featured. The book can be read online or purchased in paperback.
From cOAlition S, the funded initiative to make full and immediate Open Access publication of research a reality, comes a new draft proposal titled “Towards Responsible Publishing,” which outlines “a vision and a set of principles that a future scholarly communication system should aspire to, along with a mission that enables research funders…to deliver this.”
The proposal responds to the fact that 5 years on from the development of the European Commission and European Research Council’s Plan S, academic publishing practices continue to lag behind advances in how scientific research is performed, disseminated, and used.
Along with the draft proposal comes a call for researchers to share their feedback on the proposal through a survey open through November 29, 2023:
For such a scholar-led system to be successful, it will need broad support from the research community. To understand if our proposal resonates with the community of researchers, we embark on a consultative process, with support from Research Consulting Limited in partnership with the Centre for Science and Technology Studies (CWTS). This process offers researchers the opportunity to voice their opinions and contribute to the development of a proposal that serves their needs. The consultation will run from November 2023 until April 2024. Based on the feedback through this consultation, a revised proposal will be developed for the cOAlition S funders to consider in June 2024.
Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO, writes for The Scholarly Kitchen, “AI Will Lead Us to Need More Garbage-subtraction.” Amid a flurry of recent articles in LIS journals and higher education blogs on concerns about generative AI and large language models (LLMs) being trained on non-transparent, highly biased swaths of data culled from across the internet, Carpenter speculates on another unintended consequence of these advanced machine-learning technologies: they are adding to the growing amount of low-quality content being shared online, or in other words, more “garbage” for researchers to sift through in the search for valuable information.
From the article:
In a world of ubiquitous information, curation becomes the most coveted service. Reduction, selection, and curation become the highest value an organization can provide. We need to subtract from the flow of information, by “deleting the garbage….”
Into this environment, generative AI systems will only exacerbate that problem. In the same way that robotics have made manufacturing processes more exact, more efficient, faster, and cheaper, AI tools will help everyone generate ever more content. As large language models and generative text creation AI systems make the authorship of content easier, ultimately this will only generate more and more content.
On World Digital Preservation Day (November 2), the Digital Preservation Coalition released the 2023 edition of the “Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species” – an open, community-created resource listing the most at-risk digital materials. The list this year consists of 87 entries, with new entries including “First Nations Secret/Sacred Cultural Material.”
From the post announcing the resource, titled “Is data loss a choice?”:
“The most noticeable thing about the 2023 edition of the Bit List is actually how little has changed,” explains Dr. Amy Currie, Bit List Co-ordinator for the DPC. “The Bit List Council made only marginal changes from the recommendations in 2021 so, in this sense, the 2023 report has validated the broad conclusions of previous years, updating them rather than setting them aside. With a few honourable exceptions, there has been little or no improvement in the overall risk profile of digital assets.”
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The Bit List 2023 is published in the shadow of a global pandemic, during a land war in Europe and a time of heightened tension and possible war in the Middle East. These threats to digital content coincide with a crisis of knowledge and fog of disinformation. Cyber-warfare can make battlefields and hostages of almost any connected device and data, and technical inter-dependency means that economic shocks threaten the digital memory of the world in ways we have barely begun to comprehend.
Ethics in Linked Data, edited by Alexandra Provo (New York University), Kathleen Burlingame (University of Pennsylvania), and B.M. Watson (University of British Columbia), “brings together contributions that explore ethics in linked data initiatives.” The book focuses on the idea that ethics should be at the forefront of consideration when the data is created, pre-existing damage should be acknowledged and mitigated, and more ethical outcomes should be a focus when working on linked data projects. From the description:
Contributions investigate the intersection of linked data with such topics as gender, indigenous knowledge, inclusive data creation, authority control, identity management, systems design, codes of ethics, sustainability, critiques of fundamental linked data models, and more.
Proposals are currently being accepted for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2024, an aligned conference made up of several related events.
The submission deadline for all DHSI aligned conference session proposals is December 15, 2023.
The Interactive Film and Media Journal has shared a call for proposals for the virtual IFM 2024 Conference: “Communities, Structures, Entanglements,” to be held June 12-14, 2024, via Zoom.
From the call:
The 6th Interactive Film and Media Virtual Conference (June 12-14, 2024) invites academics (faculty, researchers, and Ph.D. students) from all disciplines (media, communication, film, digital studies, visual arts, etc.) and practitioners (filmmakers, artists, VR and game designers, media producers, etc.) to submit their proposals. We seek proposals that blend critical analysis with creativity, push the boundaries of conventional thinking, and contribute to the burgeoning discourse on communities, structures and entanglements in interactive film and media. While presenters are encouraged to consider this year’s themes, proposals on matters relevant to the IFM community and beyond are welcome.
Possible topics may include but are not limited to:
- Innovation in current and emerging structural design in interactive storytelling.
- Empowerment of communities’ agency and participation in interactive narratives.
- Visualization techniques for conceptualizing narrative structures.
- The implications of structures and entanglements in shaping interactive experiences.
- Role of technology, including AI, in amplifying or restricting agency, whether individual or community-oriented.
- Impact of cultural and sociopolitical contexts on agency and entanglements.
- Collaboration and co-creation in building innovative platforms.
- Case studies highlighting the successful implementation of new structural concepts.
- Ethics and responsibilities in facilitating agency, navigating entanglements, and designing structures.
- Exploration of how VR and AR technologies create immersive environments that leverage agency, structures, and entanglements for a richer user experience.
- Community’s role in shaping inclusive structures and agency within interactive narratives.
- Societal connections and values in interactive entanglements and their influence on content and experience.
KEY AREAS
- Digital theory: history of digital media, intermediality, transmedia storytelling, multimedia
- Digital humanities: e-literature (e-Lit), fan fiction, remix culture, web serials, e-Learning
- Interactive film: documentary, fiction, animation, experimental
- Interactive platforms: teleconference, streaming, mobile screens, virtual museums, multimedia installations
- Interactive media: webseries, digital news, snack media, ecomedia, social media
- Games: storytelling, educational games, docugames, serious games, games for change
- VR (Virtual Reality) / AR (Augmented Reality): immersion, alternative environments and realities, interfaces
- Database and Big data: digital archiving, politics and ethics, metadata
Abstracts of 500 words should follow the proposal template available here and be submitted before December 18, 2023, to the section ‘conference paper abstract’ at the #IFM Journal’s Submissions system.
No fee is charged for presenters or attendees at the IFM2024 virtual conference.
From the Post:
In this position, you will:
- Provide research and design consultation to students, faculty, and staff in their development of research and scholarly projects.
- Partner with faculty colleagues to offer in-class instruction for topics in the Digital Learning portfolio.
- Collaborate with team members to research, contextualize, and embed critical digital pedagogy in and outside of the classroom.
- Proactively research, recommend, and implement emerging digital humanities tools and methods to enhance student learning, faculty research, and access to library resources.
- Mentor, train, and in some cases supervise student employees as a part of our evolving Library Consultant program.
- Engage in continuous professional self-development and professional activities; participate in professional networks to maintain current knowledge of best practices and exploration of future trends.
- Actively collaborate in library project groups, participate in library research groups, serve on library steering groups, and contribute to ad hoc projects and initiatives as opportunities arise.
Qualifications that will help you flourish in this role:
- You are eager to explore emerging technologies – including large language models, artificial intelligence (AI), virtual and augmented reality – and to teach students, faculty, and staff how to use them effectively and ethically for experimentation, coursework, and research.
- You are familiar with digital humanities research tools and approaches (e.g., text mining, minimal computing, data analysis and visualization, text encoding, digital exhibits, machine learning).
- You are committed to providing research and consultation services to researchers with varying levels of technical expertise in an active community of undergraduate scholars.
- You possess strong organizational and project management skills.
- You are familiar with ACRL Framework for Information Literacy, critical information literacy, universal design for learning, and other inclusive pedagogies.
- You have knowledge of reference and research consultation services, including the reference interview.
- You demonstrate a commitment to an inclusive environment that values and celebrates difference.
- You are resilient, adaptable, and demonstrate a capacity to operate flexibly in a rapidly evolving landscape.
- You are practiced in basic web-development (e.g. HTML, CSS, JS) and web design standards for usability and accessibility.
- You have a working knowledge of version control software and platforms (i.e. git and GitHub) and their affordances.
For this job, we require that:
- You have a Master’s Degree in Library and Information Science from a program accredited by the American Library Association OR an equivalent combination of related experiences, education, and training with at least 2 years of professional experience.
This is a full-time, 12-month position. Please apply before November 28,2023, for fullest consideration.
