Category: Opportunity

OPPORTUNITY: DLF Conference Scholarships

The Digital Library Federation, the Association of Research Libraries, and Electronic Resources and Libraries have announced a fellowship program to help offset costs to attend the DLF Forum, to be held in Austin from November 4–6, 2013.

ARL/DLF Forum Fellowship for Underrepresented Groups
Five fellowships to promote diversity at the DLF Forum. Fellowships will provide up to $1,000 to cover travel costs. Registration to the Forum will be waived. To qualify for this scholarship, an applicant must be interested in actively contributing to the DLF Forum and must be of Hispanic or Latino, Black or African-American, Asian, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or American Indian or Alaskan Native descent.

ER&L and DLF Cross-Pollinator Travel Awards
The purpose of these two grants is to extend the opportunity to attend the DLF Forum to two library professionals who would not typically go to the Forum, but who can envision and articulate a connection with their work and who see great value in building a dynamic and diverse peer network. The travel grants include conference registration, air travel costs, and housing in Austin.

DLF Forum Fellowships for New Professionals
Four awards of up to $1,000 each to go toward the travel, registration, board, and lodging expenses for Library employees (faculty, librarians, or staff) at DLF member institutions who have been in the profession for 3 years or less and whose work is wholly or predominantly in some area of the digital library. Graduate and undergraduate student assistants at DLF member institutions who, although only working part-time, make a significant contribution to a digital library endeavor and who may be considering a digital library career are also welcome to apply.

All applications are due September 6, 2013, and award notification will be sent by September 30.

OPPORTUNITY: Speaking in Code

Applications are now being accepted for “Speaking in Code,” an NEH-funded symposium taking place November 4-5, 2013, at the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab. The event has been organized as an attempt to make explicit the tacit knowledge that is usually employed by software developers in the digital humanities.

As the announcement explains:

Over the course of two days, participants will:

  • reflect on and express, from developers’ own points of view, what is particular to the humanities and of scholarly significance in DH software development products and practices;
  • and collaboratively devise an action-oriented agenda to bridge the gaps in critical vocabulary and discourse norms that can frequently distance creators of humanities platforms or tools from the scholars who use and critique them.

Speakers include Steve Ramsay, Bill Turkel, Stéfan Sinclair, Hugh Cayless, and Tim Sherratt. (For a discussion about the diversity of this lineup, take a look at Natalia Cecire’s recent post and responses from Alex Gil and Bethany Nowviskie.)

The deadline to apply is September 12.

CFP: ADHO Calls for Proposals for New Special Interest Groups

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has issued a call for proposals for Special Interest Groups (SIGs). From the announcement:

By forming a SIG, those with similar professional specialties, interests, and aptitudes can exchange ideas, stay current, and mobilize to pursue common goals across the boundaries of ADHO’s individual Constituent Organizations.

According to the ADHO Protocol for SIGs:

In support of SIGs, ADHO offers a platform for connection with and visibility within the international Digital Humanities community.  If requested, ADHO would be happy to consider offering a dedicated server space for the SIGs website, a dedicated listserv and in-name sponsorship of related gatherings, workshops, and conferences, as well as in-name support when pursuing external funding.

Many dh+lib readers are likely familiar with the first ADHO SIG, Global Outlook:: Digital Humanities (GO::DH) project (dh+lib announced it here).

In response to the CFP, Josh Honn (Northwestern University) has created a Google doc to gauge interest in a “critical digital humanities” SIG. A question for dh+lib readers: is anyone interested in a SIG for library and cultural heritage professionals?
 

OPPORTUNITY: Editorial Recruitment, Open Library of the Humanities

The Open Library of the Humanities is seeking editors for its disciplinary fields. As described by its cofounder Martin Eve in a piece in the Guardian’s Higher Education Network blog in March, the Open Library of the Humanities seeks “to offer a low-APC (academic publishing costs) or APC-free solution for rigorously reviewed, digitally preserved work across the humanities.” Editors are sought in disciplines included, but not limited to:

+ History

+ Theology & Religious Studies

+ Literature & Languages

+ Modern & Ancient Languages

+ Philosophy

+ Cultural Studies & Critical Theory

+ Film, TV & Media Studies

+ Musicology, Drama & Performance

+ Classics

+ Art, Design & Art History

+ Legal Theory

+ Digital Humanities

+ Politics & Political Theory

OPPORTUNITIES: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Publications Liaison

The ADHO invites applications for Publications Liaison, “a volunteer position to help increase the visibility of the association’s journals and other publications.” This would be a great opportunity for a librarian to get involved in a DH project. From the position description:

ADHO publications are primarily owned by its constituent organizations; these publications include:

  • LLC. The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities (a print journal whose ownership resides with ALLC/EADH);
  • Digital Humanities Quarterly (an online journal whose ownership resides with ACH);
  • Digital Studies/Le champ numérique (an online journal whose ownership resides with CSDH/SCHN);
  • DH Commons (an online publication whose ownership resides with centerNet);
  • Humanist (an online discussion group);
  • Digital Humanities Questions and Answers (a community-based Q&A board whose ownership resides with ACH and ProfHacker); and
  • Topics in the Digital Humanities (a monograph series);

More information about ADHO publications may be found at http://adho.org/publications.

The ADHO publications liaison would work with publishers and indexing services to ensure that ADHO publications are properly indexed, advise on metadata best practices, and recommend other discovery strategies.

Applications are due to Kathleen Fitzpatrick (kfitz47@gmail.com), Chair of the ADHO Publications Committee, by April 15.

OPPORTUNITY: NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute

The year’s summer institute, June 17 – July 6 in Jonesboro and Fayetteville, Arkansas, will address the issues surrounding the:

“academic use of game engines, including the balance of immersion with accuracy, strategies for storytelling and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in ‘serious’ games, and questions of power and appropriateness in using video game conventions to represent non-contemporary or non-Western cultures.”

The institute accepts 20 applicants, and each received a stipend of $2700. Deadline for applications is March 15.