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FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: HTRC TORCHLITE Hackathon

Feb

22

2024

The TORCHLITE project is hosting a hackathon May 21-23, 2024 in Champaign, Illinois for researchers and programmers interested in text analysis and data mining/visualization using HathiTrust Research Center tools. The hackathon deliverables include data visualizations, Jupyter notebooks, applications, and creative uses for its new tools. Participants who are selected to attend will receive up to ...

JOB: Educational Technologies Librarian (University of Virginia)

Feb

22

2024

From the posting: The University of Virginia is seeking applications for the position of Educational Technologies Librarian. This position will join a team responsible for the creation and delivery of instructional programming that develops students’ digital literacy and maker mindsets. The successful candidate will develop and deliver media production classes and workshops; create asynchronous teaching and training materials; assess curricular needs for audio visual ...

JOB: Open Publishing Coordinator (Virginia Tech)

Feb

22

2024

From the posting: The University Libraries at Virginia Tech has a full-time Open Publishing Coordinator position available. Virginia Tech Publishing launched in 2017 and currently publishes open access books, journals, digital scholarship, and audiovisual media. Reporting to the Publishing Director, the Open Publishing Coordinator will manage book publishing projects, consult with researchers on campus, and ...

RECOMMENDED: Large Language Models and Academic Writing

Feb

8

2024

The South African Journal of Science recently published an article by Martin Bekker (University of the Witwatersrand) that explores a tiered model for assessing academic authors’ engagement with large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Large language models and academic writing: Five tiers of engagement” offers guidance for academic journal editors, university instructors and curriculum ...

EVENT: 2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities

Feb

8

2024

The 2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities, African Stories, and Agency will take place on February 15-16, 2024, from 8:30AM-5:00PM GMT at the University of Ghana-Legon and online via Zoom. The 2024 symposium “seeks to stimulate a dialogue that addresses the intersections of the digital humanities and African stories and agency. We will ...

EVENT: Queer and Trans Art as Knowledge Mobilization

Feb

8

2024

The University of Toronto’s Critical Digital Humanities Initiative hosts a Lightning Lunch series on Zoom. Coming up on Wednesday, February 14, at 12:00pm EST, speakers Cait McKinney (Simon Fraser University), Chris Vargas (Western Washington University), and Dallas Fellini (University of Toronto) will share their work in a discussion titled “Queer & Trans Art as Knowledge ...

EVENT: Indigenous Knowledges – Introductory Workshop

Feb

8

2024

Indigenous Knowledges, a free introductory workshop presented by AHRC-NEH Indigenous Knowledges, will take place on Thursday, February 15, 2024, from 10:00-11:30am GMT. This workshop will be the first in a series of four that “will explore relationship building, Indigenous research ethics, Protocols, data sovereignty, and developing digitally curated collections through the CMS platform Mukurtu.” Peter ...

CFP: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 2024

Feb

8

2024

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the in-person 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held in partnership with Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU College of Arts and Letters in East Lansing, Michigan, July 29-31, 2024. Office hours will be held on February 15 (register here) for prospective presenters to learn more ...

CFP: Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2024

Feb

8

2024

The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the seventh annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship which will be hosted in person, July 14-19, 2024, by Pitts Theology Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Collaborative digital project teams are invited to submit proposals to participate in the week-long summer institute. From the call: ILiADS ...

CFP: Summer 2024 Open Education Publishing Institute

Feb

8

2024

UPDATE: The deadline for proposals is extended to March 15, 2024. The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced a call for participants for their Open Education Publishing Institute to be held in Summer 2024. The three-week hybrid institute will take place in person June 12th-14th, 2024 at the CUNY Graduate ...

CFP: Keystone DH 2024 Conference

Feb

8

2024

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to Friday, March 8. Keystone DH — a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic — has announced that the annual Keystone DH conference will be hosted in-person by the DIGIT program at Penn State Erie, The ...