EVENT: Indigenous Knowledges – Introductory Workshop

Indigenous Knowledges, a free introductory workshop presented by AHRC-NEH Indigenous Knowledges, will take place on Thursday, February 15, 2024, from 10:00-11:30am GMT. This workshop will be the first in a series of four that “will explore relationship building, Indigenous research ethics, Protocols, data sovereignty, and developing digitally curated collections through the CMS platform Mukurtu.”

Peter Runge, Head of Special Collections & Archives from the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University will be joining this session, along with Tanja Hoffman from the University of York.

Register at the link on the event page, and a Zoom link will be sent to you.

If you have any questions please email Sarah French (Research Assistant, University of York) sarah.french@york.ac.uk.

Additional workshops will be held on:

  • Thursday 21 March, 4-5.30pm
  • Thursday 18 April, 4-5.30pm
  • Thursday 16 May, 4-5.30pm

CFP: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 2024

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the in-person 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held in partnership with Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU College of Arts and Letters in East Lansing, Michigan, July 29-31, 2024.

Office hours will be held on February 15 (register here) for prospective presenters to learn more about this year’s DLF events, session types, and committees for the DLF Forum.

From the call:

We invite proposals on all topics related to digital libraries, encompassing case studies, “show and fails,” practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, but not limited to:

  • Digital humanities
  • Digital scholarship
  • Digital pedagogy
  • Digital collections and DAMS
  • Digitization, digital preservation, or reformatting analog to digital format(s)
  • Born-digital materials
  • Art information
  • Community archives
  • Machine learning / artificial intelligence
  • Project management
  • Partnerships, advocacy, and outreach
  • Race and technology
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
  • Assessment
  • Climate change

Sessions are invited in the following lengths and formats:

  • 90-minute Workshops: Hands-on training sessions on a specific tool, technique, workflow, or concept. Up to two (2) facilitators are allowed per submission.
  • 60-minute Working Sessions: Open sessions for community organizers, creative problem solvers, and existing or prospective DLF working groups to begin or get feedback on in-progress projects, collaborate on addressing challenges, and discuss thought-provoking questions. Up to two (2) facilitators are allowed per submission.
  • 45-minute Panels: A discussion of up to three (3) presenters on a unified topic, with an emphasis on community discussion. Proposals with diverse and inclusive speaker involvement will be favored by the committee. Panels will be slotted into 60-minute sessions, leaving a minimum of 15 minutes for Q&A and discussion at the end of each session.
  • 45-minute Presentations: A single topic or project presented by up to two (2) presenters. Presentations will be slotted into 60-minute sessions, leaving a minimum of 15 minutes for Q&A and discussion at the end of each session.

Read the full CFP here and submit proposals before Thursday, February 29, 2024.

CFP: Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2024

The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the seventh annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship which will be hosted in person, July 14-19, 2024, by Pitts Theology Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Collaborative digital project teams are invited to submit proposals to participate in the week-long summer institute. From the call:

ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment for collaborative project teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students to build upon established digital pedagogy or scholarship projects and/or launch new ones. To help get a new project started and/or clear hurdles, each team is assigned a Liaison expert to consult on the project and help connect them to other experts.

The steering committee encourages proposals from teams in whole or in part new to digital scholarship. We employ an expansive definition of “digital project” that can include topics like infrastructure development and pedagogical practice. Projects of all types, and in any stage, are welcomed.

Examples of successful project proposals are linked from the full CFP posted on the ILiADS website, where you can also find Frequently Asked Questions about participating in ILiADS. Submissions should be made before Friday, March 15, 2024.

ILiADS relies on a team of experts in a variety of digital project skills and technologies to serve as liaisons to project teams. A Call for Liaisons has also been shared:

We are seeking liaisons with any combination of expertise in: digital scholarship tools and methodologies; programming, multimedia, and design experience; or audio/video production skills, including 3-D/XR.

To express interest in being a liaison for ILiADS 2024, fill out this form by March 29, 2024.

CFP: Summer 2024 Open Education Publishing Institute

UPDATE: The deadline for proposals is extended to March 15, 2024.

The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced a call for participants for their Open Education Publishing Institute to be held in Summer 2024.

The three-week hybrid institute will take place in person June 12th-14th, 2024 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and virtually via Zoom June 17th-27th, with virtual follow-ups in August and January (more details below). Participants will receive a lump-sum award of $4,200 that will cover travel, lodging, and per diem expenses for the in-person sessions and overall participation in the institute. To learn more about the institute visit the website.

Applications from adjuncts, part-time, and full-time professors, as well as staff from a range of disciplines are encouraged, particularly those from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Native-Serving Institutions, and community colleges.

The institute is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and will be hosted by the CUNY Graduate Center in partnership with the Teaching and Learning Center (TLC).

The deadline for proposal submissions is March 1, 2024. If you cannot upload your file, or have questions, email the team at oepi2024(at)gmail.com.

CFP: Keystone DH 2024 Conference

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to Friday, March 8.

Keystone DH — a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic — has announced that the annual Keystone DH conference will be hosted in-person by the DIGIT program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College on May 20-22, 2024.

Conference organizers have shared a call for proposals for individual ~15-minute presentations or full 90-minute “roundtable” sessions. From the call:

The conference theme is play: the fun of exploring, gaming, and trying new things without being sure you understand them. This theme celebrates immersive experience and experimentation in digital humanities, especially marked in the adventurous work of our keynote presenters!

As with previous Keystone DH conferences, we welcome a range of proposals, including:

  • Presentations to share digital and public humanities projects;
  • Presentations on digital humanities pedagogy
  • Work on exploring, critiquing, applying, developing generative AI;
  • Methods / progress in developing digital scholarly editions and archives;
  • Curation efforts with digital ephemera;
  • Games, game-making, game-playing in humanities work;
  • Roundtable discussions on new directions and potential energies in humanities work digitally practiced;
  • “Workshopping” to share/get advice on projects in progress, which could take the form of:
    • short immersive installations of 3D projects,
    • interface design and development in progress,
    • investigations of a method (e.g. data sonification, analyzing/curating/classifying visual arts, natural language processing, network analysis, mapping time and space),
    • something we haven’t thought of here!

Students, early-career and non-traditional scholars, faculty researchers, digital scholarship librarians, designers, developers, explorers experimenting with “digital humanities” are all welcome to apply.

Read the full CFP here and submit proposals before Monday, March 1, 2024.

CFP: Boston DH 2024 Conference

The call for proposals for Boston DH 2024, a “one day symposium of greater Boston-area scholars, community members, library and archives professionals, students, and practitioners across disciplines who engage with digital approaches, pedagogy, and methods in humanities and social sciences research” has been extended to February 16, 2024. The event will take place on April 12, 2024 in person on Tufts’ Medford campus, though a hybrid option will be available as well for those unable to attend.

Proposals on topics related to queer digital humanities and critical mapping, exploring issues around identity, social justice, and technology are of particular interest, but those related to digital storytelling, digital public humanities, critical coding and AI, environmental humanities and climate justice, and digital musicology and sound studies, another other such issues are also desired.

Submission types include individual talks (15 min), panel or round table presentations (90 min), poster sessions, and workshops (90min). View the call for additional information.

Questions can be sent to Kaylen Dwyer at kaylen.dwyer@tufts.edu.

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Civic Switchboard Institutes

With the support of IMLS funding, Civic Switchboard aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems. The project team has announced a series of institutes taking place throughout 2024 that may be of interest to library workers engaged with digital research support and data literacy instruction.

From the announcement:

Through our Civic Data Literacy for Libraries: A Civic Switchboard Institute project, we will host six regional and one online institutes in 2024 for library workers interested in serving as intermediaries between community members and civic data and developing civic data roles for their libraries.

Institute Schedule

  • April 18-19, 2024 : Pittsburgh, PA Institute (Apply here)
  • May 13-14, 2024: Chapel Hill, NC Institute (Apply here)
  • June 27-28, 2024: Boston, MA Institute
  • July 11-12, 2024: Portland, OR Institute
  • August 1-2, 2024: South Bend, IN Institute
  • October 17-18, 2024: Houston, TX Institute
  • November 7 and 14, 2024: Online Institute

There are several goals for the Civic Switchboard Institutes, including:

  1. To expand a community of practice focused on libraries and civic data and connect regional library workers;
  2. To support participants in understanding their civic data ecosystem and potential roles for their libraries;
  3. To connect participants with exemplars of library civic data intermediary work by featuring the work of host sites;
  4. To foster critical data literacies through engagement with topics in civic data that speak to power, social justice, and responsible data practices to mitigate harms.

Library workers from public, academic, government, or other types of libraries are eligible to apply. Through the support of an IMLS grant, participants not local to the in-person institutes are eligible to receive an honorarium to offset travel expenses.

Applications for the Pittsburgh, PA, institute in April are due before February 16, 2024. Applications for the Chapel Hill, NC, institute in May are due before March 8, 2024.

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Statistics and Network Analysis Workshops (Mathematical Humanists Project)

The Mathematical Humanists project, from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History at New Media at George Mason University and the University of California-Los Angeles, is offering a series of workshops “on the mathematics that underpins common Digital Humanities (DH) methods.”

Workshops will cover topics such as applied statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete mathematics. The first two workshops will be held in-person in August 2024. Additional courses will be held in person and online in 2025 and 2026. Accepted participants’ travel and lodging expenses will be covered by funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Applications are now open for “Statistics” and “Network Analysis” workshops with an application deadline of February 15, 2024. Applicants who wish to apply to both workshops should apply separately for each workshop. See the call for participants for additional information.

CFP: The Digital Lifecycle

The Best Practices Exchange is accepting session proposals for their next (un)conference, The Digital Life Cycle, to be held at California State University, Sacramento on June 10-12, 2024.

Proposed sessions can be in a variety of formats and will ideally focus on any aspect of the digital life cycle, but proposals on topics not related to the theme are also welcome. Visit the call for proposals website to learn more about the theme and the organizers’ recommendations for creating a strong proposal.

Proposals should be submitted via online form no later than Monday, February 16, 2024 at midnight.

JOB: Data Science Community Lead (UC Santa Barbara)

From the posting:

Hourly range: $29.55 – $38.46/hr

The UCSB Library’s DREAM Lab seeks a Data Science Community Lead organizer to join our team of research and technology professionals.  We seek a creative, dynamic, and technologically proficient individual to support and expand our Data and Software Carpentry education community on the UCSB campus.The Data Science Community Lead will be responsible for organizing staff and volunteers who are presenting various extra-curricular data science workshops, including but not limited to version control with Git, the Unix Shell, statistical scripting with R and Python, and geospatial analysis with R.

You will lead the growth of a volunteer Instructor and Helper community by performing outreach, organizing events, and mentoring new volunteers. You will ensure active participation and attendance in workshops by leading communication efforts towards Learners and other campus constituents. You will train the community to publish workshop websites and new data science curriculum materials using GitHub Pages and Markdown. Beyond Carpentries, the DREAM Lab is a campus destination for scholars to work across disciplinary boundaries on data-intensive research projects. Each individual on our team offers guidance on access to the Library’s data collections, refers out to other computational resources on campus, and supports software tools to analyze and visualize quantitative, qualitative, and spatial data.

CFP: ACRL Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook

Editors Fiona Kovacaj and Victoria James are seeking proposals for chapters/recipes “on instructional activities for teaching about the Digital Humanities through a critical lens” for a Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook to be published by ACRL. The outline of the book includes five sections: Defining the Digital Humanities, Digital Tools, Data & Metadata, Preservation, and Access. The book will use the ACRL Cookbook format with each chapter framed as a recipe.

Deadline for proposals is February 1, 2024 and proposals should be submitted via this Google Form.

View the full CFP (pdf) to get more details regarding topics and format.

Please email Fiona Kovacaj and Victoria James at critical.dh.cookbook@gmail.com if you have any questions.