Category: Opportunity

UC Berkeley Library has been awarded nearly $50,000 by the NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant Program to fund the study of legal and ethical issues in cross-border text data mining, which builds on a 2019 project, Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining, Cross-Border (LLTDM-X). The goals of LLTDM-X are:

…to design instructional materials and institutes to support digital humanities TDM scholars facing cross-border issues, but our first step with LLTDM-X is getting a better handle on the specific law and policy challenges they face.

Through a series of virtual roundtable discussions, and accompanying legal research and analysis, LLTDM-X will surface these cross-border issues and begin to distill preliminary guidance to help scholars in navigating them.

The first roundtable will engage U.S. digital humanities text data mining practitioners in sharing their cross-border TDM experiences. U.S. and global law and ethics experts will help guide the roundtable discussion to elicit the contours of practitioner experiences. During two subsequent roundtables—one focusing on cross-border copyright and licensing, and another on cross-border privacy and ethics—the experts will discuss practitioners’ hurdles in depth, and begin to develop customized guidance.

After the roundtables, we will work with the law and ethics experts to create instructive case studies that reflect the types of cross-border TDM issues practitioners encountered. These case studies will incorporate recommendations to help a broad audience of U.S. digital humanities text data mining practitioners navigate LLTDM-X concerns. Case studies, guidance, and recommendations will be widely-disseminated via an open access report to be published at the completion of the project. And most importantly, they will be used to inform our future educational offerings.

The Institute seeks US-based researchers who have or would like to do a computational text analysis project on materials held outside of the US. The grant funds up to $800 to participants. Applications are online, here.

The Digital Library Federation and HBCU Library Alliance announce The Authenticity Project, “an IMLS-funded mentoring and professional development program for early- to mid-career HBCU library staff.” The goal of the project “is to build a more diverse, inclusive, collaborative, and cohesive next-generation digital library workforce, ready to work across types of institutions in building infrastructure of various kinds (social and technological) in service to a wide array of communities.”

The announcement includes two opportunities: a call for fellows, and a call for mentors:

Call for Fellows:

In the summer of 2022, two cohorts of fellows from HBCUs will join peers in a month-long, funded and facilitated program. Each will receive

• full travel, lodging, and registration expenses for the DLF Forum and Learn@DLF workshops (October 9-12) in Baltimore, MD
• facilitated mentoring (with each Fellow selecting two volunteer mentors: one from an HBCU Library Alliance member organization and another from the DLF community, and given discussion prompts to provide a backbone for conversations and exchange)
• access to an always-available Slack space, email list, and a month of facilitated, synchronous, online networking and learning sessions

Eligibility

Authenticity Project fellows will be early- to mid-career librarians, archivists, or other library employees who currently work at HBCUs and are interested in advancing their knowledge, skills, and professional connections in digital library work. Applicants should demonstrate a commitment to meaningful, community-building ideas and projects in their statement of purpose.

Fellows will commit to participating throughout the month-long program and will be asked to indicate a preference between the dates of Cohort 1 or Cohort 2 when applying. A joint committee of DLF and HBCU Library Alliance representatives will make selections.

2019 fellows are welcome to re-apply (or to participate as program mentors!). However, fellowship preference may be given to new applicants.

To Apply

Potential fellows should submit the following elements

• A brief statement of purpose that addresses the applicant’s interest in the program and in digital library topics
• A curriculum vitae or resume
• A letter of support from their supervisor

Applications will be accepted until 11:59pm EST on March 15, 2022 Extended to April 1.  Apply now.

 

Call for Mentors:

Each fellow will be supported by two experienced library professionals: one from an HBCU Library Alliance member institution and one from the DLF community.

Over the course of the one-month fellowship program, mentors will share their career experience and knowledge of HBCU and PWI libraries and/or knowledge of the digital library field and provide collegial support, networking assistance, and serve as sounding-boards for fellows. Every mentor will receive access to training on mentorship prior to the program start, connect with a supportive community of peers, will support fellows’ learning through weekly discussions on specific topics, and will be granted $750 stipends in acknowledgment of their time and commitment to the program.

To volunteer

DLF and the HBCU Library Alliance seek participants who are willing to share their expertise and are committed to promoting positive, systemic change in the library field, including by broadening career pathways and professional advancement for HBCU library staff.

Fellows will have the opportunity to choose their mentors based on shared interests. Those who are matched will commit to participating in two mentor training sessions as well as the month-long fellowship program and are eligible to participate in both 2022 cohorts if selected by a fellow in each cohort.

Potential mentors should submit the following elements

• A brief statement that addresses their interest in the program and career strengths/interests
• A curriculum vitae or resume
• A letter of support from their supervisor (encouraged but not required)

Mentor sign-ups will be accepted until 11:59pm EST on March 15, 2022 Extended to April 1. Volunteer now.

The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) has recently announced three new grant opportunities with awards ranging from $50,000 to $150,000. The three different categories for award include: higher education; library, archives, and museums grant; and a program for an artist or scholar in residence.

Higher Education grant: open to two-year and four-year minority-serving higher education institutions such as Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian-serving institutions (ANNHs), American Indian Tribally Controlled Colleges and Universities (TCCUs), Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander Serving Institutions (AANAPISIs), Hispanic Serving Institutions (HSIs), Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Native American-Serving, Nontribal Institutions (NASNTIs), and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs). The grants will support the creation or maintenance of community stories in digital formats, where those stories would benefit from inclusion of Library collections. The Library will award one grant for up to $60,000 to support the development of a digital interface, publication, exhibit or experimental approaches to integrating Library collections in a course, program, or interest group that will make use of the product for educational purposes at the institution. Applications close November 15. Please note: the deadline for submitting questions to LOC-grants@loc.gov is November 6.

Library, Archives and Museums grant: open to local cultural heritage organizations to enable storytelling across a range of platforms. Specifically, the Library seeks to award up to $60,000 to a library, archive or museum to support the design and implementation of digital projects (digital exhibits, interfaces, multimedia productions or publications) that use digital materials from the Library of Congress to engage Black, Indigenous or other community members of color. Applications close November 15. Please note: the deadline for submitting questions to LOC-grants@loc.gov is November 6.

Artist or Scholar in Residence program: open to artists or scholars whose work connects with the intersection of technology and cultural heritage, and engages with the legacies of racial division in the U.S. Proposed projects will help the Library and the American people imagine new ways of preserving, accessing and sharing the stories of underserved communities, connecting the nation’s past to its future. Each Artist/Scholar in Residence will be supported for two years with $50,000 during the first year and $100,000 in the second year of the residency. Applications close November 22. Please note: the deadline for submitting questions to LOC-grants@loc.gov is November 14.

Webinars with information on each opportunity will be available later this month.

OCLC Research has put out a call for focus group participants to help them improve access to their archival collections. The focus group is part of their work on the Building a National Finding Aid Network project and is intended to garner insight from those who work with an archival collection in a library, archive, museum, or other community or cultural heritage setting. Volunteers will fill out a form to help assemble groups, though not everyone who volunteers will be selected. “We will be assembling groups with an eye toward representing different roles and responsibilities, archive types, and institutions that do and do not currently participate in an archival aggregation. We are looking for a wide variety of perspectives, so we encourage you to volunteer if you work with archives in any way and are willing to participate.”

The focus group will be held online and will take approximately 90 minutes.

Participants can sign up here. Digital humanities library folks who work with archival materials can lend a unique perspective to the focus group, particularly with respect to digitized collections and/or the use of digitized content for DH pedagogy and research.

From the Call for Applications:

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) seeks applicants for its two 2021 Communications Fellowships, each of which comes with a stipend of €500 (Euros).

Each year, Communications Fellows work with ADHO’s Communications Officer to manage ADHO’s public communications activities. The fellowship is well suited for graduate students, young scholars, and academic professionals who wish to develop a deeper knowledge of digital humanities and its global communities, contribute to an important digital humanities scholarly and professional organization, and gain professional experience in social media and communications.

In 2021, Communications Fellows will contribute to the development of a new multilingual website for ADHO; will follow and disseminate conference information; will draft and edit official ADHO announcements; and will participate in other special projects as they arise.

Work Environment

The communications team works remotely from their respective locations, communicating via email, online chat, video calls, and other effective means. Communications fellows must provide access to a computer and internet connection. In 2021, fellowships will begin as soon as possible after 01 May and will end on 31 December.

Roles and Responsibilities

ADHO Communications Fellows commit an average of 2-3 hours per week of work with an increase in workload leading up to and during the annual Digital Humanities conference. Responsibilities include

• Collaborating with ADHO’s Communications Officer and other members of the Executive Board to draft and edit official ADHO communications to be published to the ADHO website and to be shared via ADHO social media accounts, relevant email lists, and in other online venues;
• With the Communications Officer, identifying and amplifying on ADHO’s website and/or social media accounts announcements from COs, SIGs, and Journals;
• With the Communications Officer, identifying information that may be of interest to the global DH community;
• With the Communications Officer, monitoring ADHO’s social media presence daily and weekly;
• With the Communications Officer and members of the MLMC, maintaining up-to-date information on ADHO’s website;
• Working with the Communications Officer and Executive Board to respond to feedback or criticism as needed.

Learn more about ADHO’s Communications Team and Policies.

Skills and Qualifications

Essential skills and qualifications include:

• excellent written communication skills in English;
• ability to work with minimal supervision;
• attention to detail;
• some knowledge of digital humanities communities and current discourses;
• some knowledge of social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.

Desirable skills and qualifications include:

• experience creating and publishing content using Drupal, WordPress, or another web content management system;
• skills in graphic design and multimedia editing;
• working knowledge of more than one language. In 2021, we are seeking especially applicants with experience translating written content from English into one or more languages relevant to our Constituent Organizations including but not limited to French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish.

To apply, submit a CV or résumé, a brief writing sample, the names of two references, and a cover letter describing your interest in and qualifications for the position to the ADHO Communications Officer at communications@digitalhumanities.org. The application deadline is 23:59 UTC on 15 April 2021.

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has opened calls for nomination to the triennial Antonio Zampolli Prize. According to the announcement, the prize:

offers a unique opportunity to reward individual projects that either have been formative or had a decisive impact on the field as a whole. Because the prize is awarded to the overall project, the recipients can be a single individual or a collaborative group of scholars, researchers, and/or practitioners. The output recognized can take any form: published research, developed resources, an established initiative, and/or center or tool(s) for research, for example. To be eligible for the prize, the nominated project must involve the innovative scholarly use of information and communications technologies.

Nominations are due by September 1, 2021.

The LIS Education and Data Science Integrated Network Group (LEADING) is accepting applications for 2021 cohort of fellows. As per the website, “The LEADING project scales-up the highly successful LEADS-4-NDP initiative and will prepare a diverse, nation-wide cohort of 50 LIS doctoral students and early to mid-career librarians for data science endeavors.”

LEADING fellows receive a stipend in exchange for approximately 10 to 15 hours of work per week over a six month period, working under a mentor at one of the group’s member node projects. The fellowship includes:

• Online preparatory curriculum (Approximately 10 hours, May 2021)
• Intensive 4-day data science boot camp at Drexel University with other LEADING fellows, June 2021 (*accommodations and COVID-19 adjustments possible)
• Development of communication plan to connect with mentors on a regular basis
• Six-month virtual data science internship coordinated with one of our LEADING Mentors. See member node project descriptions below.
• Development of research output: in the form of papers, posters, and presentations

Applications are due March 15, 2021.

Applications are now open for the Text Analysis Pedagogy (TAP) Institute, an open educational institute that aims to empower teachers (and aspiring teachers) of text analysis in the digital humanities. The TAP Institute is led by JSTOR Labs in partnership with University of Virginia and University of Arizona, funded by National Endowment for the Humanities. The institute will run remotely in June 2021, and registration is free. From the call:

The 2021 TAP Institute will offer 10 free, online courses to teachers (and aspiring teachers) of text analysis. The courses include:

• Basic Python and R
• Optical Character Recognition
• Topic Modeling
• Data Analysis with Pandas
• Machine Learning
• Visualizing Humanities Data
• Ancient/Medieval Languages
• Named Entity Recognition

For more details, see the full schedule. Each course is short, lasting three 90-minute sessions. The courses are taught by master instructors from top American universities.

The deadline for applications is 15 April 2021.

The Open Knowledge Foundation has announced mini-grant opportunities for Open Data Day in order to support people hosting events across the globe. Anyone may apply for $300 USD awards, and events should fit into one of four tracks:

• Environmental data: Use open data to illustrate the urgency of the climate emergency and spur people into action to take a stand or make changes in their lives to help the world become more environmentally sustainable.
• Tracking public money flows: Expand budget transparency, dive into public procurement, examine tax data or raise issues around public finance management by submitting Freedom of Information requests.
• Open mapping: Learn about the power of maps to develop better communities.
• Data for equal development: How can open data be used by communities to highlight pressing issues on a local, national or global level? Can open data be used to track progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs?

Applications are due by 5 February 2021. See the call for more details.