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RESOURCE: Digital Cultures, Big Data, and Society

Feb

22

2018

Geoffrey Rockwell (University of Alberta) has shared his conference notes from the Digital Cultures, Big Data, and Society symposium, which took place at the Royal Irish Academy and University College Dublin (February 15-16, 2018). Rockwell gave a keynote, “Thinking-Through Big Data in the Humanities,” which he summarized in the notes: First, I outlined how the ...

JOB: Digital Collections Librarian, Swarthmore College

Feb

22

2018

From the announcement: As a member of the Digital Initiatives + Strategies Department, the Digital Collections Librarian provides strategic and innovative leadership, operational planning, and management for the digital asset management and preservation program for the Swarthmore College Libraries. The incumbent will help shape future directions for digital asset management and preservation systems, and will ...

RECOMMENDED: Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race

Feb

15

2018

Emily Drabinski (Long Island University) has published “Ideologies of Boring Things: The Internet and Infrastructures of Race,” a review of Safiya Umoja Noble’s (University of Southern California) forthcoming Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism in the Los Angeles Review of Books. Drabinski’s review draws attention to the ways infrastructures can be visible or invisible ...

POST: What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like

Feb

15

2018

Jennifer Howard (EdSurge) has written an article entitled “What Next-Gen Digital Humanities Looks Like,” detailing the recent NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ Meeting in celebration of its ten years in existence. The program featured talks by ODH grant recipients, discussion of the broader history of humanities computing and contemporary DH, and a keynote ...

POST: University Futures, Library Futures: a multi-dimensional model of US higher education institutions

Feb

15

2018

Rona Stein (OCLC) has published a post on the Hanging Together blog entitled “University Futures, Library Futures: a multi-dimensional model of US higher education institutions,” which reports on a collaborative project between OCLC and Ithaka S+R, supported by the Mellon Foundation. The project involved developing a model and a framework for use in “exploring emerging ...

EVENT: 2018 Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts and Humanities

Feb

15

2018

The 2018 Virtual Symposium on Information & Technology in the Arts and Humanities will take place on April 10, 2018 from 12:00pm-5:00pm EST. The theme for this year’s Virtual Symposium is “Users of Arts & Humanities Digital Collections.” Digital libraries and archives enable Internet users to access entire worlds of information at their fingertips. Who are these ...

OPPORTUNITY: ARL/SAA Mosaic Program II 2018-2019

Feb

15

2018

The ARL/SAA Mosaic Program is now accepting applications for its 2018-2019 cohort. The program, which provides “financial support, practical work experience, mentoring, career placement assistance, and leadership development to emerging professionals from traditionally underrepresented racial and ethnic minority groups,” is supported by a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarians Program from the IMLS. Applications are due on ...

POST: Building Collaboration between Wikipedia and West Virginia University Libraries

Feb

8

2018

From the special edition of #DLFcontribute, Kelly Doyle (West Virginia University Libraries) and Ashleigh D. Coren (University of Maryland, College Park) discuss how they leveraged Wikimedia Foundation’s #1lib1ref (1 librarian, 1 reference) campaign “to highlight how librarians use Wikipedia to fill in public knowledge gaps about local and marginalized knowledge.” We wanted to challenge our participants’ preconceived ...

RESOURCE: A Digital Humanities Reading List: Part 2

Feb

8

2018

LIBER‘s (Ligue des Bibliothèques Européennes de Recherche – Association of European Research Libraries) Digital Humanities & Digital Cultural Heritage Working Group has released its second installment of “must-read papers, articles and reports.” The second theme focuses on libraries finding and connecting with DH research communities and includes eleven pieces that speak to how “DH offers ...

CFP: 5th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute Conference

Feb

8

2018

The 5th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute, which will be held at Brock University on August 9-10, 2018, seeks presentation and workshop proposals. From the call: Faculty, educational developers, librarians, graduate students, and other university personnel are invited to submit up to two presentation proposals – a 20 minute presentation or a 60 minute interactive workshop ...

OPPORTUNITY: NEH Summer Institute, The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures

Feb

8

2018

The NEH and Salt Lake Community College seek applicants for their 2018 summer institute, The Book: Material Histories and Digital Futures to “explore how the book’s evolving material qualities promote and circulate cultural knowledge” and “consider the present moment of the book’s evolution as a prologue to humanist innovation, as developing technologies, digital and multimodal, offer a host ...