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EVENT: World Digital Preservation Day

World Digital Preservation Day is Tuesday, November 2 ,2023. The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) “invites all data creators, archivists, curators, community members and digipres folk from around the world to celebrate digital preservation by participating in a whole day dedicated to all of the benefits and opportunities enabled by the hard work of our dynamic and collaborative community.” This year’s theme is “Digital Preservation: A Concerted Effort.” There are a range of events planned around the world for this year’s celebration.

The DPC provides a WDPD Event Pack for folks hosting their own event. The pack includes Zoom background logos, icebreaker activities, and a range of resources, including the Digital Preservation Handbook.

EVENT: Digital Humanities Quarterly Community Event

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is hosting a virtual community event on Friday, November 3rd from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (EST): The DHQ editorial team will present on a series of new initiatives the journal has accomplished and introduce exciting updates on our site re-design. We look forward to bringing together the DHQ community of readers, authors, and peer reviewers.

Questions can be emailed to: dhq-outreach@digitalhumanities.org

OPPORTUNITY: Journal of Map & Geography Libraries Editorial Board

The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is seeking 10 individuals to join their Editorial Board. From the email announcement:

The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is seeking 10 individuals to join the Editorial Board and contribute to the future directions and success of the journal. We aim to assemble an Editorial Board with a diverse membership in terms of geographic distribution, professional expertise, and lived experience. We welcome applicants from a variety of roles (librarian, faculty, staff), areas of librarianship, and geographic regions, who have interests and expertise in topics relevant to map and geospatial library professionals.

Applicants are asked to provide a brief vision statement indicating why they are interested and what they would hope to accomplish as an Editorial Board member (300 words max.) along with a CV. Please send these materials via email to the journal’s Co-Editors – Theresa Quill (theward@indiana.edu) and Joshua Sadvari (sadvari.1@osu.edu) – by Friday, December 15, 2023 with the subject line “JMGL Editorial Board.”

Expectations and responsibilities of Editorial Board members

Editorial Board members will be expected to bring ideas, perspectives, contacts, and enthusiasm to their engagements with the Co-Editors and the board. A level of commitment and willingness to contribute is necessary, as the success of the journal depends on the support of the board.

Board members will be expected to serve for at least three years in their first term, and subsequent term periods can be negotiated. The expected annual time commitment of individual board members is relatively minimal and will consist of the main duties described below.

To participate in an annual virtual Editorial Board meeting that will be organized by the Co-Editors

To advise the Co-Editors on current trends and topics relevant to the field, especially as they relate to the scope, strategic directions, and operations of the journal

To serve as peer reviewers for at least one submission per year and to provide constructive feedback, especially when working with new authors

To assist the Co-Editors in identifying peer reviewers and to provide second opinions on submissions when requested (e.g., if there is a conflict between reviewers)

To propose topics for special issues and to assist in identifying guest editors as appropriate

To provide content for the journal, including writing guest editorials or submitting manuscripts for review as appropriate

To identify future possible papers and encourage potential contributors through engagement in professional associations, conferences, networks, etc.

To act as ambassadors of the journal to authors, readers, and subscribers, and encourage colleagues to submit their best work

To assist the Co-Editors with other specific tasks when necessary (e.g., serving on the Best Paper of the Year selection committee)

Questions you may have about serving as an Editorial Board member for the Journal of Map & Geography Libraries or the application process can be directed to the journal’s Co-Editors: Theresa Quill (theward@indiana.edu) and Joshua Sadvari (sadvari.1@osu.edu).

Applications are due Friday, December 15, 2023.

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Florida State University

From the posting:

Florida State University (FSU) Libraries seeks a highly motivated, innovative, and collegial librarian for the position of Digital Humanities Librarian.

Responsibilities
Directly engage with faculty, students, and staff by providing consultations, instruction, online guides, and other support services related to research methodology, technical applications, and other aspects of digital humanities research
Evaluate academic needs in the humanities and collaborate with faculty and library colleagues to integrate digital humanities skills and practices into course instruction.
Manage and grow the CreateFSU academic web hosting service.
Manage and grow the PEN & Inc. digital project incubator program.
Provide consulting on digital project development to researchers at all levels.
Cultivate partnerships and working relationships with other campus units, including the Research Computing Center and Interdisciplinary Data Humanities Initiative.
Engage in appropriate professional development, continuing education, research activities, and service to the university.

Qualifications
ALA-accredited Master’s degree or equivalent experience or degree in one or more fields relevant to the position.
Demonstrated understanding of current research and trends in the humanities, including knowledge of emerging issues and technologies.
Demonstrated ability to learn new technologies, including teaching oneself to use new software applications or develop familiarity with programming languages.
Adaptability, including the ability to adjust to changes in disciplinary trends and practices and to evolving organizational priorities.
Accountability, including taking ownership of work, proactively identifying what is needed without being asked, and following through.
Ability to plan ahead, manage time, utilize available resources efficiently, and find better ways to accomplish personal and team goals.
Ability to work in a collaborative, team-based environment.
Excellent oral and written communication skills.
Strong public-service orientation.

Preferred Qualifications
Understanding of data-intensive approaches to humanistic research generally
Knowledge of digital humanities methods and technologies, including digital publishing platforms such as Omeka and Scalar, text analysis and data visualization software such as Voyant and Gephi, programming languages such as Python and R, and humanities data processing and curation applications such as OpenRefine.
Knowledge of web-development methods and technologies, including popular content management systems such as WordPress as well as experience with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
Strong presentation skills and teaching experience (defined broadly)
Demonstrated commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility.

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, University of Oklahoma

From the posting:

The University of Oklahoma Libraries is seeking a collaborative, detail-oriented individual to join our team as the Digital Projects Librarian. Working in the Bizzell Memorial Library, within the Digital Strategies and Innovation Division, this position reports to the Director of Digital Scholarship and Data Services. The successful candidate will be joining a team of expert technologists responsible for data-intensive digital research and scholarship services, including research data management and visualization, 3D scanning and printing, AR/VR offerings, and informatics.

The Digital Projects Librarian will be responsible for digital projects through tracking and coordinating departmental needs with other library departments. They will promote and represent the library to stakeholders through service operations, such as creating research guides, cataloging data and creative outputs, and offering workshops and instruction. They may be responsible for the selection, training, and evaluation of staff. This position performs various duties needed to successfully fulfill the function of the position, such as task-managing small digital project teams that include Graduate Assistants.

An ideal candidate is aware of digital scholarship, digital humanities, and data projects in academic libraries, has proven digital project management experience, and has a collaborative approach to project delivery. Confidence in engaging with team members, including faculty and students, across disciplines and colleagues across the University Libraries is essential.

Job Requirements—

Required Education: Master’s degree in any subject area, AND: 12 months of related academic experience.

Skills:

Ability to work diverse groups of people in respectful, equitable and inclusive ways.

Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to effectively communicate with end-users at varying technological skill levels.

Experience and/or demonstrated record of effective project management working with students and faculty members on digital scholarship projects.

Demonstrated understanding of Project Management processes, strategies and methods.

Ability to predict challenges and seek to proactively head-off obstacles.

Ability to take initiative, be self-directed while performing detail-oriented tasks.

Ability to analyze needs, develop action plans, and coordinate with appropriate personnel as required.

Strong sense of personal accountability.

Excellent organizational and time management skills.

Experience building and sustaining effective interpersonal relationships and working collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

JOB: Metadata Consultant for the Humanities, Virginia Tech

From the posting:

The University Libraries at Virginia Tech seeks a full-time Metadata Consultant for the Humanities to serve as a library metadata expert for publishing and digital humanities work. This position will have a dual reporting line to the Coordinator of Metadata Technologies within the Metadata Services Unit (70% time), and to the Interim Director of Publishing Services (30% time). The Metadata Consultant for the Humanities will apply the latest in metadata best practices and emerging standards to University Libraries’ metadata, and will consult on digital humanities. Essential to the position is flexibility with changing technology standards, clear communication, and a desire to work closely with library colleagues as well as faculty and students from across the Virginia Tech community.

Required Qualifications

-Master’s in Library and Information Science or related discipline
-Demonstrated experience with digital humanities tools, such as Omeka or Scalar
-Experience working with metadata in a digital library environment
-Prior professional experience working in an academic research library
-Familiarity with the workflows and practices associated with library linked data
-Excellent time management and demonstrated experience to successfully handle multiple priorities and meet established deadlines
-Effective communication skills
-Demonstrated experience with emerging metadata and linked data practices which may include linked data creation and/or editing in Wikidata
-Experience working effectively within a collaborative team environment

Preferred Qualifications

-Demonstrated skills with tools for data manipulation, such as Open Refine, XSLT, or
scripting languages such as Python or Ruby
-Demonstrated experience with digital humanities projects and working with humanities faculty
-Experience with grant writing

Salary Information

$56,000 minimum dependent on qualifications and experience

Review Date

11/09/2023

RECOMMENDED: On Making in the Digital Humanities

UCL Press has published an open-access volume focusing on DH’s processes as “making.” On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley is an homage to John Bradley’s work in DH and “assembles a group of well-known, experienced and emerging scholars in the digital humanities to reflect on various forms of making (we privilege here the creative and applied side of the digital humanities)” and “provide[s] a very human view on what it is to do the digital humanities, in the past, present and future.”

The volume is co-edited by Julianne Nyhan, Geoffrey Rockwell, Stéfan Sinclair, and Alexandra Ortolja-Baird, and is divided into 4 sections: “Making Projects,” “People Making,” “Making Praxis,” and “In Memoriam,” a section by Geoffrey Rockwell dedicated to the contributions of Stéfan Sinclair.

RECOMMENDED: Finding the Right Platform

“Finding the Right Platform,” by Cheryl E. Ball, Corinne Guimont, and Matt Vaughn compares purposes and features of 10 different academy-owned, open-source publishing platforms, including Fulcrum, Humanities Commons, Janeway, Manifold, Mukrtu, Omeka, Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, PubPub, and Scalar. The piece is meant to help researchers, publishers, and librarians answer questions about their projects in order to determine which platform would best serve the work they’re doing.

From the abstract:

“A key responsibility for many library publishers is to collaborate with authors to determine the best mechanisms for sharing and publishing research. Librarians are often asked to assist with a wide range of research outputs and publication types, including eBooks, digital humanities (DH) projects, scholarly journals, archival and thematic collections, and community projects. These projects can exist on a variety of platforms both for profit and academy owned. Additionally, over the past decade, more and more academy owned platforms have been created to support both library publishing programs. . . . Because of the challenges involved in identifying and evaluating the various platforms, we created this comparative crosswalk to help library publishers (and potentially authors) determine which platforms are right for their services and authors’ needs.”

RESOURCE: Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings

The Programming Historian recently published a new lesson, Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings. Developed by Jonathan Reades and Jennie Williams, this lesson “uses word embeddings and clustering algorithms in Python to identify groups of similar documents in a corpus of approximately 9,000 academic abstracts. It will teach you the basics of dimensionality reduction for extracting structure from a large corpus and how to evaluate your results.”

Part of a special series in partnership with Jisc and The National Archives, the lesson includes background information, a case study, and instructions in dimensional reduction, hierarchical clustering, validation, and a bibliography that includes other relevant tutorials. It’s listed as high difficulty.

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities Community Bluesky Invite Codes

Given the ongoing deterioration of Twitter as a viable space for the sharing of digital humanities work, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has begun exploring alternatives. Bluesky social has the makings of a viable alternative, but it requires an invitation to join. This form was created to facilitate the sharing of these invitation codes. Once you’re on the platform you receive one of these codes every two weeks, so be sure to check back and pay it forward. Emails are only being used for the purposes of code sharing and recognition from ACH – they will not be made public.

Once you’re on Bluesky, check out this DH feed from Mark Sample, fill out the accompanying form to get plugged in, and explore Amanda Visconti’s Bluesky Quick Start Guide.

CFP: Digital Commonwealth 18th Annual Conference

From the call:

The Digital Commonwealth’s 18th Annual Conference will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday April 30, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM US East Coast Time. Digital Commonwealth’s Conference Committee invites interested speakers to submit abstracts of 1 page or less in length for presentations centered around the theme: Building Connections: People and Pixels. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Building long term, mutually beneficial partnerships with other organizations and communities

Creating resources using digital assets that encourage use for educators

Integrating digital collections into library programming and patron services

Strategies to facilitate discovery in digital collections

Creating policies for responsible access to digital collections

Strategies to best support and advocate for the staff who process and digitize materials

Connecting to potential users through social media or other kind of user-oriented outreach

Proposals for individual presentations, being a panel participant, joint proposals for a panel, or a planned interactive dialogue between 2-3 people, will be considered for inclusion. Abstracts should be submitted by email no later than November 1, 2023 to digitalcommonwealth@gmail.com. Please email any questions to the same address.

Last year’s talks and presentations are recorded and posted to the 2023 Conference website.