Category: Opportunity

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announces its call for applications for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices competitive grant. As the call for applications explains, this grant program focuses on:

digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada. Launched in 2021, the program is designed to support efforts to digitize materials that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and populations whose work, experiences, and perspectives have been insufficiently recognized or unattended.

These often “hidden” histories include but are not limited to, those of Black, Indigenous, Latine, and other People of Color; Women; Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Non-binary, and other Genderqueer people and communities; Immigrants; Displaced populations; Blind, Deaf, and Disabled people and communities; and Colonized, Disenfranchised, Enslaved, and Incarcerated people. The program is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation.

The call for proposals for the 2024-2025 cycle of Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices is now open. Initial applications are due by October 30, 2024. See details at Apply for an Award.

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is currently recruiting for an Accessibility Editor, Book and Tool Review Editor, and Languages Editor. These volunteer positions are enlisted for renewable, three-year terms. As DHQ usually has multiple editors in each area, selected applicants would be working in a collaborative capacity.

DHQ is endeavoring to build a diverse team of volunteers, to ensure contributions from a global perspective. Those interested in applying should “submit a one-page statement describing your interest in the position and your vision for how you would contribute to DHQ’s mission, along with a copy of your CV.” Short Zoom interviews will be conducted with viable applicants.

View the full call for information on the different positions. The deadline for applications is June 15, 2024.

The American Studies Association (ASA) Digital Humanities Caucus seeks nominations for a new Digital Projects Review Editor for American Quarterly, the journal of the ASA. From the email call:

Digital project reviews carry on the traditions and guidelines of book reviewing in the American Quarterly, including the careful selection of projects based on the importance of relevance of their topics, methods, and theories for scholars working within the American studies tradition. There are currently two open positions.
Responsibilities include:

• Identifying reviewers and projects, and working with the existing list of both
• Communicating with reviewers about guidelines, deadlines, and process
• Communicating with AQ editors about upcoming reviews for issues
• Reviewing and editing the project reviews, and sending them back to authors for revisions

The Digital Projects Review Editors will also have the opportunity to review and revise the digital project guidelines to acknowledge that digital scholarship is increasingly inseparable from social concerns such as race, gender, class, ability, nationality and colonialism.

This is a three-year term with a minimal workload anticipated to be limited to a few hours per month. Prospective nominees can review the full guidelines to get a full sense of the nature of the work.

Nominations (names and full CVs) should be emailed to Jennifer Ross (jennifern.ross@utoronto.ca) by May 15, 2024.

The “Trans Mediascapes” research project at Carleton University seeks individuals to help test the Transgender Media Portal. In particular, the project team seeks individuals in Canada and the U.S. who are over the age of 16 and identify as

• Trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, gender nonconforming, queer
• Black, Indigenous, racialized, a person of colour
• Deaf, disabled, neurodivergent
• Use assistive technologies like screen readers, screen magnification, ZoomText, OS Magnification, alternative navigation, switch system (including eye gaze and sip and puff), on-screen keyboard, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, voice control, or voice access
• Any of the above

The Transgender Media Portal is “a new website for discovering films and videos made by trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, and gender-nonconforming artists. Created by students and professors at the Transgender Media Lab at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.”

Valid responses receive a CA$75 gift card. Estimated time: approximately 45 minutes. Interested individuals should submit an application form.

The TORCHLITE project is hosting a hackathon May 21-23, 2024 in Champaign, Illinois for researchers and programmers interested in text analysis and data mining/visualization using HathiTrust Research Center tools. The hackathon deliverables include data visualizations, Jupyter notebooks, applications, and creative uses for its new tools. Participants who are selected to attend will receive up to $1,000 in reimbursements for travel and accommodations.

More about the TORCHLITE project from the website:

The HathiTrust Research Center’s “Tools for Open Research and Computation with HathiTrust: Leveraging Intelligent Text Extraction” (TORCHLITE) . . . project leverages HTRC’s new Extracted Features API. The Extracted Features API allows programmatic access to metadata and annotated token data (aggregated at the page level) for more than 17 million volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library collection, including in‑copyright material. This robust dataset includes all kinds of useful metadata and data about individual books, which can be leveraged to create interesting visualizations and applications. HTRC is currently developing visualizations that map author location data, publication dates, and word frequency.

Register to participate in the link on the website by March 1, 2024.

 

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.

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.

The University of Connecticut Humanities Institute invites applications for its visiting scholar fellowship program. This program provides “opportunities for individuals to pursue advanced work in the humanities. Visiting Humanities Scholars, UConn Humanities Scholars, and UConn Graduate Humanities Fellowships are year-long and allow for time and space to research, write, and collaborate on work that extends and celebrates humanities scholarship.” From the posting:

The University of Houston’s US Latino Digital Humanities Center is once again offering grants-in-aid through its Recovering the US Hispanic Heritage Program / US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) program, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. These grants provide a stipend of up to $7,500 to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of a digital publication and/or a digital project. From the call:

Proposals must draw from recovered primary and derivative sources produced by Latinas/os in what is now the United States, dating from the Colonial Period to 1980 (such as Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage collections, other repositories and/or the community).

The Grants-in-Aid program is designed to provide a stipend to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of a digital publication and/or a digital project. The grant covers any expense connected with research that will advance a project to the next stage or to a successful conclusion. Grantees are expected to present as part of the 2024 cohort virtual panel and produce a public-facing digital deliverable by December 2024.

Scholars will have the opportunity to publish their digital scholarship on Arte Público Press’ APPDigital publication platform.

Scholars at different stages of their careers (academics, librarians, advanced graduate students, independent scholars, etc.) are encouraged to apply for a stipend of up to $7,500 for investigative work. Grantees are expected to attend virtual trainings (dates to be announced). We welcome applications in the following areas:

• Identification, location and recovery of any wide variety of historical documents and/or literary genres, including conventional literary prose and poetry, and such forms as letters, diaries, memoirs, testimonials, periodicals, historical records and written expressions of oral traditions, folklore and popular culture. Any documents that could prove relevant to the goals of the program will also be considered. The emphasis is on works by Mexican/Chicano, Puerto Rican, Cuban, Spanish, Central and South American and other Latina/o residents of what has become the United States, from the Colonial period to 1980.
• Bibliographic compilations, indexing projects pertaining to any of the above. Compilation of reference works, e.g. bibliographic dictionaries, thematic datasets, linguistic corpus, etc.
• Study of recovered primary source(s) for potential digital publication, including: text analysis, thematic dataset creation, visualization, metadata creation, etc.
• US Latina voices.
• Underrepresented archives, such as Afrolatinidad, Indigenous, gender, LGBTQI+, etc.

To apply, please submit a letter of interest, project description (2-3 pages), proposed budget and CV as a single PDF document via email to apprec@central.uh.edu by Monday, January 8, 2024. Two letters of recommendation should be sent directly to apprec@central.uh.edu by the recommenders. All documentation (including letters) are due on January 8, 2024.

The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) announces the call for proposals for its third round of grants. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these grants are designed to support faculty and librarians at public colleges and universities (excluding R1s) to support course and curriculum development. There are three categories of grants available:

• DEFCon Teaching Fellowships – aimed to support the development of new courses at the intersections of ethnic studies fields and digital humanities.
• DEFCon Capacity Building Fellowships – aimed at building institutional capacity at the intersection of digital humanities and ethnic studies. Capacity building includes but is not limited to: developing a minor, major, or certificate program; running professional development events for faculty; or bringing speakers to campus for workshops.
• DEFCon Mentors – to support participants in our DEFCon Teaching and Capacity Building Fellowship programs.

Applications for all categories are due January 20, 2024. More information, including details about past grant recipients, and application forms are available on the DEFCon Grants page.

The National Endowment for the Humanities Office of Data and Evaluation (ODE) has posted a call for comments on a new grant program designed to support studies about the state of the humanities in the United States. The ODE are seeking feedback from any interested parties concerning “the most pressing needs and topics in the field.”

You can submit your feedback via this form; deadline for comments is January 12, 2024.