Category: Opportunity

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) and the Digital Library Federation (DLF) have announced a new program to “to engage DLF community members and connect them to exciting areas of growth and opportunity at DPLA” by facilitating attendance at the upcoming DPLAfest, which will take place April 17-18, 2015, in Indianapolis.

The purpose of these grants is to extend the opportunity to attend DPLAfest 2015 to four DLF community members. Successful applicants should be able to envision and articulate a connection between the DLF community and the work of DPLA.

Four awards of up to $1250 each will be made to cover registration fees for the conference, along with travel, accomodations, and meals expenses. Applications are due March 5, 2015.

The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture has announced the spring schedule of free webinars for learning Scalar, an open source multimodal publishing platform.

Scalar enables authors to incorporate multimedia content from a variety of sources into their own content using a system of “paths” and “tags” to create digital publications:

Paths are linear sequences of content, like a chapter full of pages or a tutorial full of steps. Tags are non-linear groupings of content, like items in the index of a book or descriptors on a media-sharing site. Where Scalar differs from most other publishing tools is in the flexibility with which grouping and sequencing can be applied. Paths can contain other paths, and tags can reference other tags, making both hierarchical and rhizomatic structures possible.

Both introductory and intermediate webinars will be offered. The two-hour webinars are free of cost, but space is limited.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is accepting applications for Sparks! Ignition Grants for Libraries. The Sparks grants range from $10,000 to $25,000 and “encourage libraries and archives to prototype and evaluate innovations that result in new tools, products, services, or organizational practices.”

IMLS is hosting two information webinars to answer questions about the Sparks grants. The first is December 11, 2014 at 4pm EST, and the second is January 6, 2015 at 4pm EST.

The American Antiquarian Society has announced “The Digital Antiquarian,” a 2-day conference and 5-day workshop taking place May 29-June 5, 2015, in Worcester, MA.

The two-day conference will open up questions related to digitization, cataloguing, and research design, exploring applications of digital tools and methods to diverse library materials, and identifying needs and opportunities in the development of critical bibliography appropriate to 21st-century tools. Leaders in book history, curators and librarians from university and independent research libraries, and innovators in the digital humanities will convene in Worcester to exchange ideas about the past, present, and future of historical information literacy and the archive.

After the conference, a workshop “dedicated to practice-based learning in digital humanities in the AAS’s major areas of archival development and research” will be open to accepted participants.

Registration for the conference is now open; applications for the 5-day workshop and seminar are due by February 1, 2015.

The Digital Library Federation is offering two fellowships for its upcoming conference, to be held October 27-29 in Atlanta, Georgia:

ARL/DLF Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups
Up to four fellowships will be awarded, which include $1,250 each (to be applied towards travel, board, and lodging) in addition to complimentary registration. Applicants “must be interested in actively contributing to the DLF Forum and must be a member of a traditionally underrepresented group including, but not limited to, people of Hispanic or Latino, Black or African-American, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or American Indian or Alaskan Native descent.”

DLF Forum Cross-Pollinator Fellowships: Museums
Up to four fellowships will be awarded, which include $1,250 each (to be applied towards travel, board, and lodging) in addition to complimentary registration. Applicants “must be a staff member of a museum or archive who has not previously attended a Forum and would not have been funded to attend the 2014 DLF Forum.”

Applicants for both fellowships should include:

• Cover letter of nomination
• Personal statement from the candidate (ca. 500 words)
• A current resume

The deadline for the ARL/DLF Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups is July 14, 4 pm EDT, and the deadline for DLF Forum Cross-Pollinator Fellowships: Museums is July 11, 4 pm EDT.

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is accepting proposals for microgrants – awards up to $1,000 and $3,000 total grant call – related to pedagogy, although all applications will be considered. Projects should be completed within roughly six months, and might include:

• a framework for sharing DH syllabi
• a means of annotating and sharing DH assignments or exercises
• pedagogical podcasts (microgrants can be used to purchase commercial software for producing screencasts or videos)
• pedagogical tools or apps
• enhancements to DH Questions & Answers
• activities that add pedagogical features to the online journal Digital Humanities Quarterly

Proposals of 750 words are due May 31, 2014.

Applications are open for the Association of Documentary Editing’s 43rd Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents (July 20-24, Louisville, KY).

The Institute for the Editing of Historical Documents is an annual five-day workshop for individuals new to the field of historical documentary editing. With the needs of the participants as a guide, experienced documentary editors provide instruction in the principles and practices of documentary editing and insight into the realities of work on a documentary edition.

Documentary editing is the craft of preparing historical writings or literary works for publication in print or online. The goal is to produce an authoritative edition of the material, with an accurate transcription of the original manuscript and an editorial framework that advances understanding of the text and context.

Past participants include “faculty and graduate students, archivists and librarians, government historians, public historians, and independent scholars.”

Deadline for applications is March 15th, 2014.

From the Digital Library Federation (DLF) blog:

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is seeking nominations for appointments to the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Advisory Committee. The committee advises the DLF director on matters relating to program activity and initiatives, budget, and strategy. Members serve three-year terms, with the possible option to renew for an additional term at the discretion of the committee chair.

Nominations may be submitted using the following form by January 15, 2014:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1RV4mzyXWZu4ji66zUzl-uCcLQBJ32_veVbEJaLZX7V0/viewform

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute will be accepting applications for scholarships for the Summer 2014 Institute. The scholarships cover tuition costs with the exception of a small, non-refundable administration fee (students $150, non-students $300).

Details for submitting applications will be announced via the DHSI e-mail list and DHInstitute on Twitter. Applications are considered on a rolling basis (the first group of scholarships were announced out last week), and all applications must be submitted by February 14, 2014.