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 Staples (University of Arizona), a corpus linguist, to look more closely at what constitutes a complete corpus. For this project, the items in it were easy to identify, as it consists of a complete series and there was a finite number of installments, but that isn’t always the case. The author also looks to pizza to “illustrate the consequences of corpus choice and set up a discussion about the claims we can make.”
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RESOURCE: Text on Maps Help Guide
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 as well as their titles and authors, such technology has not yet been applied to visual media like maps. Exposing text on maps alongside traditional catalog record metadata transforms how people search maps and why people might be interested in historical maps altogether: now the content of large sets of maps can be examined as data that tells us not only about the history or cultural context of specific places, or of regional mapping traditions, but also about broader social and cultural developments.”
Text on Maps Help Guide provides documentation for searching, viewing, and becoming a contributor through transcription, georeferencing, and annotating.
EVENT: Digital Humanities Virtual Podcasting Workshop Series
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 13: Editing your Audio
October 20: Releasing your Podcast
October 27: Incorporating Podcasting into your Pedagogy
To receive the link to the workshops, register here. For recordings of previous workshops, visit SDSU’s Digital Humanities Initiative Podcast playlist on their YouTube Channel.
EVENT: Beyond Black Data Reading Group
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 following guest speakers:
- September 29: Tawana Petty
- October 27: Isar Godreau
- November 17: Nicole Alijoe
- December 15: Zaire Dinzey and Nancy Lopez
Register for the reading group to receive links and further details: https://stfranciscenter.networkforgood.com/events/35180-black-beyond-data-reading-group.
This event is hosted by the Beyond Black Data project, a Mellon-funded project from Johns Hopkins University, and is sponsored by the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Baltimore.
CFP: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Virtual Professional Development Program
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 be accepted on a rolling basis, and accepted proposals will be expected to present 12-16 weeks after acceptance. All proposals that “engage the broader spectrum of digital research and practice” are welcome, though the committee is particularly interested in the areas of digital project management, collections as data, intersections of social justice and digital scholarship, and ethics in digital scholarship.
From the call:
Proposals for either collaborative panel presentations or lightning talks should explore a case study or model of digital scholarship work and address collaboration (internal and/or external), challenges, opportunities, and failures, issues of sustainability, and any best practices you may have developed.
Interested panelists should consider how their digital scholarship practices align with the Digital Scholarship Section’s commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion. Panelists should be prepared to engage in anti-oppressive behavior during the session, as articulated in the DSS Community Agreement.
Short presentations/lightning talks, long presentations, and workshops will be considered. Proposals will be evaluated on an ongoing, monthly basis.
CFP: Digital Humanities Utah
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 digital, digital librarianship, DH tools and infrastructures, and digital publishing.
In addition to the general sessions, a special Ethical AI Session will also take place. From the call:
Six 15-minute panel presentations will be selected from the general CFP to fill two featured panels. If selected, we request that the presenter also lead a small breakout session on AI in the final hour of the program. If you would like to have your presentation considered for inclusion in the Ethical AI special session, please indicate this on your submission form.
Note: Only 15-minute panel presentations will be considered for this session (no complete panels, roundtables, or hands-on workshops). Proposals not selected for the Ethical AI session will still be considered for the general CFP.
The deadline to submit proposals is November 2, 2023, and selected applicants will be notified by December 15, 2023.
This event is in person only and will be held at the University of Utah. The keynote speaker will be Mark Sample, the Chair and Professor of Digital Studies at Davidson College.
CFP: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium
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 to Digital Humanities focusing on Latin America and Caribbean Studies. We welcome proposals not only from those in higher education, including students, faculty, and staff, but also from cultural institutions and other organizations doing work in the digital humanities.
Proposals of no more than 250 words may be submitted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French by October 16, 2023. We encourage people to submit proposals for projects at any stage of completion.
Submit proposals using the online form in the call, and submit questions to Melissa Jerome (mmespino@ufl.edu), Sarah Tew (sarahetew@ufl.edu) or Hélène Huet (hhuet@ufl.edu).
OPPORTUNITY: Early Modern Digital Itineraries
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 Media at George Mason University.
Each workshop will build toward the project and tool development and will conclude with presentations on the subsequent research. From the CFP:
Workshop 1 in January/February 2024 (precise date to be determined based on participant input): Introductions. Presentation of EmDigIt dataset and survey of available tools for spatial, premodern analysis.
Workshop 2 in March/April 2024 (TBD): Project updates from PI and student research assistants. Hands-on workshop in data exploration. Discussion and formation of research collaborations.
Workshop 3 in May/June 2024 (TBD): Lightning round presentations of progress on research questions to be presented in August workshop. Feedback and discussion.
Between the first and third meetings, participants will correspond independently with Dr. Midura and the student research assistants and/or advisory board members to refine research questions and identify the data that will be most useful to them. Participants are encouraged to work collaboratively, and co-authorship of presentations will be welcomed. We will work in turn to develop the data and produce targeted data subsets to use for your queries.
Workshop 4 will take place in-person on August 5th, to coincide with the Association for Digital Humanities Organization’s annual conference hosted by GMU on August 6th-9th. Participants will present on the outcome of their research using the EmDigIt data in 90-minute panels. A final roundtable will bring all participants together for a discussion and initial formulation of a collaborative, public white paper. Further opportunities for publication may be available depending on participant interest.
Early scholars, graduate students, and researchers who’s work may go beyond early modern history are still encouraged to apply. Digital Humanities experience is not required (though considered a bonus!) to apply.
Applications for this collaborative cohort are submitted in the online form on this site through October 1, 2023.
JOB: Digital Projects Specialist, George Washington Presidential Library
From the posting:
This position will be devoted to working on compelling new projects that the CDH is building. Of primary importance is ARGO: American Revolutionary Geographies Online, an NHPRC-funded multi-institutional historic maps platform spearheaded by the Washington Library and the Norman B Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library. In particular, this position will be responsible for managing the metadata cleanup and ingest of record sets from partner institutions into the ARGO platform, as well as working with ARGO’s custom metadata layers. In this role, the Digital Projects Specialist will collaborate with Leventhal Center staff and have the opportunity to shape and maintain a dynamic cross-institutional partnership.
This position will also collaborate with and provide technical support for other Mount Vernon/CDH data-driven projects, such as the Database of the Enslaved Community at Mount Vernon and the forthcoming George Washington’s Networks project.
Experience with the creation of metadata, and the best practices surrounding such work, is essential. The successful applicant will have a passion for the creation of data that is useful for scholars and researchers.
JOB: Text Mining Specialist, Northeastern
From the posting:
Reporting to the Head of Research Data Services, the Text Mining Specialist (salary range $56,835-88,095) works closely and collegially with fellow Research Data Services team members and others inside and outside the library to a) identify existing support and research needs across the University, and b) develop a broad and deep range of services and initiatives to meet those needs and promote the acquisition of text analysis skills. The Specialist possesses expertise in text analysis techniques and is adept at applying those concepts and methods to the interests of faculty, staff, and students, regardless of their subject area or skill level.
JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Michigan State University
From the posting:
Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries seeks a creative, service-oriented professional to join the Digital Scholarship Lab as the Digital Scholarship Librarian. The ideal candidate values collaboration, inclusivity, and community engagement in digital scholarship efforts and will bring expertise and a learning mindset that will shape a growing, dynamic digital scholarship program at the MSU Libraries.