Category: Opportunity

dSHARP, Carnegie Mellon University’s digital scholarship center, is offering an eight-week paid summer internship for those interested in working on pre-existing projects. From the announcement:

The Summer Intern will be expected to work on two to four pre-existing projects during their tenure, with the projects determined based on how their skills and interests best match with current center and faculty projects. Example projects they might work on include the Bridges of Pittsburgh (databases, GIS, graph theory), the Carnegie Mellon Encyclopedia of Science History (history of science, web publishing, editorial work), or Digits (digital preservation). As appropriate, the Summer Intern may also work collaboratively with center faculty to develop digital resources for the dSHARP website (WordPress, digital pedagogy).

Qualifications

• currently or recently enrolled in a Ph.D. or a terminal master’s degree such as a MLS/MSIS program
• previous experience in digital scholarship, digital humanities, or digital publishing
• ability to work both independently and collaboratively in an innovative and interdisciplinary environment
• excellent communication and interpersonal skills

Applications are due February 15, 2018.

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants. These grants “aim to help institutions secure long-term support for their core activities and expand efforts to preserve and create access to outstanding humanities materials.” Potential proposal ideas include “the documentation of cultural heritage materials that are lost or imperiled; the preservation and conservation of humanities materials; and the sustaining of digital scholarly infrastructure.”

Applications are due March 15th.

Digital Library Federation (DLF) has announced that they are again partnering with the Kress Foundation, AIC (the American Institute for Conservation), ARLIS/NA (Art Libraries Society of North America), MCN (Museum Computer Network), and VRA (Visual Resources Association) to offer cross-pollinator grants to DLF-affiliated individuals to attend the annual conferences for AIC, ARLIS/NA, MCN, and VRA.

Successful candidates will demonstrate a commitment to advancing research, learning, social justice, and/or the common good through the creation and/or use of digital library and museum technologies.

Applications for each conference grant have different deadlines:

• MCN (7-10 November 2017): deadline 16 October 2017
• ARLIS/NA: (25 February- 1 March 2018): deadline 17 November 2017
• VRA (27-30 March 2018): deadline 8 January 2018
• AIC (29 May-2 June 2018): deadline 5 March 2018

The International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) Consortium will offer five tuition fellowships to the workshop, “Introduction to IIIF: Sharing, Consuming, and Annotating the World’s Images,” scheduled for June 4–8 2018 at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. To apply:

Complete the Tuition Fellowship Application with the following information:

• Name
• Email address
• Organizational affiliation
• Brief one-paragraph bio
• A one-paragraph statement describing how attending the IIIF workshop at DHSI might expand your professional horizons, any previous experience with IIIF, what you hope to learn, and how you might contribute back to your community after the workshop

Applications are due November 3, 2017.

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has announced a call for applicants for their 2017-18 Communications Fellowships. Two positions are available, and fellows will:

… write news releases, blog posts, and announcements about ADHO, its constituent organizations, and the broader digital humanities community; monitor and update ADHO’s social media presence; maintain its website; help to develop and implement ADHO’s outreach strategy; and perform other communications-related responsibilities. The fellows should anticipate spending approximately 3-4 hours per week on the position. The fellowship comes with a small annual stipend of 600 Euros. It is well suited for graduate students, young scholars, and academic professionals who wish to develop deeper knowledge of digital humanities and its global communities, contribute to an important digital humanities professional organization, and gain professional experience in social media and communications.

The application deadline is May 31, 2017.

The Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) is accepting proposals from project teams for the 2017 institute, to be held July 30-August 4 at the College of Wooster.

At ILiADS, ideas grow through collaborative, iterative processes. During this week of digital immersion, teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students are invited to build upon established digital pedagogy or scholarship projects and/or launch new ones. Whether you’re learning how to clear significant hurdles or you’re just getting off of the ground, ILiADS’ expert Liaisons will consult with teams to advance their goals. Over the course of the week, team members will learn more about their own collaboration and how to sustain their project into the future. Projects of all types, and at any juncture, are welcomed.

The proposal deadline has been extended to March 31, 2017.

The Programming Historian has released a call for a subject specialist editor:

The Programming Historian (http://programminghistorian.org) is seeking an editor to work actively to solicit and edit lessons in a specific area or areas within the digital humanities. These lessons will focus on the analysis and interpretation phase of the research process, helping readers to move from digital data to publishable research… There is significant scope to make this role your own. The editorial board will offer support on the practices of The Programming Historian’s editorial approaches and policies. In keeping with our commitment to diversity and access to digital humanities, the project team are particularly interested in hearing from women, members of any minority groups, and citizens of non-English speaking countries.

The deadline to apply for this volunteer service position is February 18, 2017.

The Association of Research Libraries has announced a five-day institute “for professionals in ARL member libraries who are new to digital scholarship to develop their skills in an intensive, yet supportive, learner-centered environment.”

The ARL Digital Scholarship Institute will take place June 5-9, 2017 at Boston College and will “foreground critical thinking about the content and context of the modern research ecosystem,” while teaching core digital methodologies and tools. Participants will also be required to join a year of monthly online follow-up sessions as part of the institute.

Applications are due April 1, 2017.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has announced that it will now jointly fund Digital Humanities Advancement Grant projects with the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH):

The field of digital humanities is increasingly moving into the domains of library and museum professionals, such as curation, preservation, information architecture, metadata, and sustainability. We see this moment as a critical juncture for ensuring that library and museum professionals are understood as leaders in the digital humanities, and not simply as supporters in a passive role. For the digital humanities to continue to mature as a field, it is critical that library and museum professionals are equal partners in advancing the work. To this end, we are thrilled to renew our partnership with NEH.

IMLS funds will be used to jointly support projects that involve collaborations with libraries or museum. Proposals for the grants will still be submitted directly to the NEH; the deadline for the next round is January 11, 2017.

 

Onsite and virtual registration is open for the National Federation of Advanced Information Systems (NFAIS) 2016 Humanities Roundtable. The theme of this year’s roundtable is “Digital Humanities: Preserving the Past, Capturing the Present & Building the Future.” The roundtable “will explore the world of digital humanities through various lenses”:

• How scholarly communications supports Digital Humanities
• Challenges and opportunities from a legal point of view
• How researchers discover content
• Key cutting-edge, innovative projects in digital humanities
• Exploration into the ways millennials search for humanities information

The 2016 Humanities Roundtable will be held on September 23, at Emory University in Atlanta.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services released application guidelines for the Fiscal Year 2017 round of National Leadership Grants for Libraries (NLG). These grants “support projects that address significant challenges and opportunities facing the library and archive fields and that have the potential to advance theory and practice. Successful proposals will generate results such as new tools, research findings, models, services, practices, or alliances that will be widely used, adapted, scaled, or replicated to extend the benefits of federal investment.” Award range from up to $25,000 for Sparks Grants, to up to $2,000,000 for Project or Research Grants.

IMLS has published tips for preparing a competitive preliminary proposal, as well as a series of helpful posts “drawing attention to key points in the Notices of Funding Opportunities” for the grants.

From the “project categories” descriptions:

1. Community Anchors: We are interested in projects that advance the role of libraries as community anchors that provide civic and cultural engagement, facilitate lifelong learning, promote digital inclusion, and support economic vitality through programming and services. The benefits of projects and programs must not be limited to the local community but also advance national practice.

2. National Digital Platform: We are interested in projects that create, develop, and expand the open source software applications used by libraries and archives to provide digital content and services to all users in the United States.

3. Curating Collections: We are interested in projects that can have a significant national impact on shared services for the preservation and management of digital library collections and content across the country. Projects focused on preserving or providing access to a particular collection or set of collections cannot be supported. Similarly, the program cannot support the digitization of content or pre-digitization activities such as inventorying collections.

 Preliminary proposals are due on September 1.