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“Art Resources on the Web: Introduction to Web Archive Data Analysis and Instruction,” scheduled for April 18, 2023 as a part of the ARLIS/NA 2023 Annual Conference in Mexico City, Mexico, will introduce participants to archiving and analyzing web-based art collections. Other sessions include learning more about how digital art can be a worthwhile and challenging resource for researchers, teachers, and librarians. Participants may apply for a travel stipend of up to $1,000. The priority deadline for applications is February 17. From the event website:

Everyday, significant cultural and artistic production occurs globally across the web (e.g., digital art, exhibition or gallery websites, news, social media, and more). As a publication medium that can be both a vehicle of information about art as well as the art itself, the web presents challenges of scale and complexity for those that seek to preserve contemporary art history and integrate it in research and teaching. During this workshop participants will be introduced to web archives as a primary source, gain familiarity with web archive research use cases; and acquire hands-on experience creating web archive collections and computationally analyzing web archives using Archives Research Compute Hub (ARCH).

Registration is limited and with generous support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, participant travel stipends are available to offset costs incurred to participate in the workshop. Each stipend can reimburse up to $1,000 in travel expenses, to offset air and/or ground transportation, parking, two nights’ lodging, and food costs incurred to participate in the workshop.

Learn more about the application process.

Source: Art Resources on the Web

The Code4Lib Journal, which publishes two issues a year aiming to “foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future,” is looking for editorial committee members to commit around 10 hours per month toward collaborative submission reading and editing. Other duties include formatting text, images, figures, etc. with WordPress, completing administrative tasks, and more. From the Call:

We seek an individual who is self-motivated, organized and able to meet deadlines; is familiar with ideas and trends in the field; and has an interest in the mechanics of writing. There is a sometimes significant time commitment involved; expect to set aside ten or more hours a month.

It sounds like a lot of work, but it’s also a lot of fun (if editing is your idea of fun).

Intrigued? Please send a letter of interest by Friday, February 24 to c4ljournal@gmail.com. Your letter should address these three questions:

1. What is your vision for the Code4Lib Journal? Why are you interested in it?
2. How can you contribute to the Code4Lib Journal, i.e. what do you have to offer?
3. How do you make our editorial committee more diverse?

The Code4Lib Journal strives to represent a variety of perspectives in library technology and we encourage candidates from underrepresented groups to apply. We also encourage people who have previously applied and who are still interested to re-apply. We have had to turn down a lot of highly-qualified people in the past due to the large number of applications.

If you have any questions, contact us by email at journal@code4lib.org or ask any member of the editorial committee (listed at https://journal.code4lib.org/editorial-committee). We plan to make decisions about additional editors by mid March 2023.

Source: Code4Lib Call for Editors

The University of Houston’s U.S. Latino Digital Humanities Center is offering Mellon Foundation Grants-in-Aid to provide stipends to scholars for research and development of digital scholarship in the form of a digital publication and/or a digital project. 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 digital collections, other repositories and/or the community). From the call:

Scholars at different stages of their careers (academics, librarians, advanced graduate students, independent scholars, etc.) are encouraged to apply for a stipend 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.

Applications are due on 9 January 2023.

 

The Black Book Interactive Project, a Mellon- and NEH-funded collaborative research project that is working to increase black-authored texts in the digital humanities, has issued a call for application for two programs:

1. The Digital Publishing Scholars Program invites applications from “higher education professionals, graduate students, and scholars who have been actively working with Black literature and have a digital humanities (DH) project that is nearing the publication stage.” The program includes training and mentoring and comes with a $2275 stipend.
2. The Introduction to Digital Humanities Scholars Program invites applications from “higher education professionals, graduate students, and scholars who work with Black literature but who have relatively little knowledge / experience in the Digital Humanities (DH) field.” The program includes training on the History of Black Writing Digital Corpus and web publishing and there is an $1100 stipend.

The deadline for both programs is 30 January 2023, 5pm CST.

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section (DSS) is currently seeking applications for two liaison positions:

Liaison to ACH
One liaison will serve a two-year term (May 2023-June 2025) as the ACRL liaison to the Association for Computing and the Humanities (ACH) as part of the ACRL Liaisons Program. This is a new liaison position to ACH. The liaison will be responsible for outreach and communication between ACH and ACRL in order to forge strong relationships and advance knowledge sharing across organizations, as well as the interests of ACRL and DSS. Qualifications include membership in DSS and ACH with the ability to attend ACH conferences for the length of the appointment. Deadline for Applications: January 18, 2023.

Please review the ACRL-ACH Recruitment Description (PDF) to learn more about the liaison’s role, responsibilities, expectations, and application process. For more information, please contact Sherri Brown, DSS Liaison Committee Chair, at sherri.brown@virginia.edu.

Liaison to HASTAC
The second liaison will serve a two-year term (May 2023-June 2025) as the ACRL liaison to HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) as part of the ACRL Liaisons Program. The liaison will be responsible for outreach and communication between HASTAC and ACRL in order to forge strong relationships and advance knowledge sharing across organizations, as well as the interests of ACRL and DSS. Qualifications include membership in DSS and HASTAC with the ability to attend HASTAC conferences for the length of the appointment. Deadline for Applications: January 18, 2023.

Please review the ACRL-HASTAC Recruitment Description (PDF) to learn more about the liaison’s role, responsibilities, expectations, and application process. For more information, please contact Sherri Brown, DSS Liaison Committee Chair, at sherri.brown@virginia.edu.

“The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age” is a two-week seminar that will take place at the Kunsthistorisches Institute in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut (KHI) from June 26 to July 7, 2023. The seminar will be led by Emily Pugh, Principal Research Specialist for Digital Art History, Getty Research Institute, and David Ogawa, Associate Professor of Art History, Union College.

From the Call for Participants:

The Art Historical Image in the Digital Age is a two-week summer seminar that will explore ways that digital materials have transformed research practices in the field in both conceptual and practical ways. What constitutes image data? What are the principles, conventions, and structures by which archives, museums, libraries, conservation labs, and scholars classify, organize, and use this data as it moves from single reproductions to digital repositories to our own personal research workspaces and eventually to publications? What are some of the continuities and discontinuities between analogue and digital formats? What are some of the new relationships between image-based and object-based research facilitated by digital materials and computational methods? What kinds of opportunities might this interrogation present to think strategically about the development of a more global, inclusive art history? Participants in this seminar will engage with these questions by considering the art historical image and its complex material and digital ecosystems.

To apply, please send a current c.v. (max 3 pages) and a 500-750 word statement on your research area and how your work might benefit from the seminar to David Ogawa (ogawad@union.edu). The application deadline will be 2 January 2023, and we will notify participants of acceptance by 23 January 2023.

You may also apply through this link to a form.

The The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) is seeking new members to join their Editorial Collective as the JITP team prepares to migrate the journal’s production and publication process to Manifold.

The announcement welcomes applications from a variety of DH and library practitioners interested in gaining experience with academic editorship:

We invite applications from graduate students, scholars, and practitioners in all fields who critically and creatively engage with digital technology in their teaching, learning, and research. We will be appointing both graduate student members and non-student members (faculty, staff, practitioners). Prior experience in publishing is not necessary. BIPOC and LGBTQ+ candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.

If you are interested in joining the Editorial Collective for The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy, email our Managing Editor, Patrick DeDauw, at admin@jitpedagogy.org, and include the following materials:

• A brief statement of interest (no more than 700 words) describing why you would like to join the collective, what skills and experiences you would bring, and your current program of study. Include a statement of your perspective on and experience in fostering inclusion, access, and diversity.
• A current CV (no more than two pages)

The deadline for expressions of interest is November 30th, 2022.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) has announced a new grant program, “Dangers & Opportunities of Technology: Perspectives from the Humanities.” This is “a direct call for research that explores the relationship between technology and culture and its dramatic impacts—both positive and negative.” Single researchers may be awarded up to $75,000, and projects led by collaborative teams may be awarded up to $150,000. The announcement continues,

Our goal with this program is to support projects analyzing technology, broadly defined, and its impact on society through the humanities and humanistic social sciences. We hope to attract scholars from a wide range of disciplines interested in tackling these critical contemporary issues.

Resources for applicants are now available, and questions can be directed to odh[at]neh.gov.

Applications are due 2 February 2023, and those selected will be notified in August 2023.

The Wikimedia Research Fund invites proposals for up to $50,000 to support individuals, groups, and organizations with research interests on or about Wikimedia projects. From the call:

We encourage submissions from across research disciplines including but not limited to humanities, social sciences, computer science, education, and law. We aim to support applicants who have limited access to research funding and are proposing work that has potential for direct, positive impact on their local communities.

We welcome submissions that describe in-depth research proposals to improve and expand our understanding of the Wikimedia projects and their impact, introduce technical and socio-technical solutions that can enhance the technology in support of the Wikimedia projects, and advance the Wikimedia Movement towards the 2030 strategic direction. We will also consider funding proposals that focus on expanding and diversifying the community of researchers studying Wikimedia projects.

Submission instructions will be provided no later than 15 November 2022.

The open-access Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC) invites applications to serve as a Reviews Co-Editor, to support a program of reviewing scholarship, platforms and tools, and programs and courses whose subject matter is directly connected to the journal’s publication scope. From the call:

Working together, the Reviews Co-Editors are responsible for identifying publications and other resources of interest to the journal’s readership, acquiring review materials as necessary, recruiting appropriate reviewers, and ensuring that published reviews are high quality. The Reviews Co-Editors are supported in this work by the Editors-in-Chief, who will provide direction and mentoring as needed, and by the Editorial Board.

The Reviews Co-Editor will serve a volunteer, four-year term (2022-2026), staggered with the other Co-Editor, Christie Hurrell, Director, Lab NEXT, University of Calgary (2020-2024). All JLSC editors and editorial board members are unpaid volunteers.

The tentative start date will be during November 2022, with some flexibility to accommodate the successful candidate.

Applications can be submitted to the JLSC editors at jlscreviews[at]jlsc-pub.org and will be accepted until 21 October 2022.

 

Reviews in Digital Humanities is looking for a Managing Editor, and offering a $5,000 honorarium for each year of commitment (with the possibility of renewal). Applicants will be considered starting October 15th, and would begin November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023. From the description of the role:

The role of the Managing Editor includes:

• Managing the intake of overviews and reviews for the journal;

• Soliciting project overviews and reviews in consultation with the journal editors;

• Maintaining the journal’s email account, directing queries to journal editors as appropriate, and communicating with project directors and reviewers;

• Keeping the journal’s submission spreadsheet updated, reflecting the status of each project based on communication with project directors and reviewers;

• Meeting every other week with the journal editors to provide an update on the submission and review pipeline.

We anticipate that this is a commitment of 3-5 hours/week, as the workload of the journal ebbs and flows with the rhythms of the academic year and summer. Managing editor tasks can be done on a flexible timeline, but we need a collaborator who can commit to dividing their work over two days each week to ensure that the submission and review pipeline keeps moving. This is a remote role.

Required Qualifications: strong organizational skills, strong written communication skills in English

The Managing Editor role is suited for people with working knowledge of digital humanities, regardless of the role or job title they hold (e.g., graduate students, faculty, librarians, archivists, cultural heritage workers, technologists).

Candidates from outside the U.S. are welcome and encouraged.

Interested candidates should send a resume or CV with a brief description (3-5 sentences) of why they are interested to Roopika.Risam@dartmouth.edu and guiliano@iupui.edu with reviewsindigitalhumanities@gmail.com cc’d by October 15, 2022.