JOB: Data Services Librarian, Middlebury College

From the post: The Data Services Librarian leads the library’s efforts to support digital scholarship and data science research and teaching. They lead the management and use of the Federal Depository documents collection. They act as a library liaison, teach information literacy skills, provide outreach, and build relationships with students, faculty, and staff, contributing knowledge ...

RECOMMENDED: Teaching DH on a Shoestring: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Danica Savonick (SUNY Cortland) published “Teaching DH on a Shoestring: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy” in the December 2022 issue (no 21) of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. This was a themed issue dedicated to Open Educational Resources and hosted on Manifold. From the abstract: This article explores minimalist digital humanities pedagogy: strategies for ...

POST: Modeling Cultural Networks in the Classroom with Constellate

In recent years, JSTOR Labs launched Constellate Lab, a modern successor of JSTOR Data for Research, to enable computational analysis of historical newspapers, scholarly journals, and other documents within the JSTOR corpora. With tutorials including analysis with Python notebooks and datasets builders, Constellate focuses on data pedagogy to sharpen and enhance ones data skills. Dr. ...

CFP: XVII Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference

Hosted at the University of Houston, the XVII Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference will be held April 25-27, 2024. The meeting theme, “The Right to Write, Speak and Be in Times of Banning, Censorship and Persecution,” seeks to highlight the resistance to state oppression of ideology, identity, race, sexuality, language, immigration status, etc. ...

CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship has announced a call for a special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction, a theme which intersects with digital humanities librarianship in multifaceted ways. From the call: The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines — geography, international relations, environment, economics — often to describe social ...

CFP: Computers & Writing 2024

Texas Christian University will be hosting the conference, Computers & Writing 2024, June 21-23 in 2024, with the theme, “Seriously Digital: Work, Play, and Digital Storytelling for ‘Post’ Pandemic People.” From the call for proposals: Throughout the ongoing pandemic, digital tools have been heralded as solutions to pandemic-related problems. This historical moment features several disruptions ...

CFP: Open Book Futures

Sponsored by Coventry University and the Open Book Collective, Open Book Futures invites individuals and project teams to submit proposals for experimental, long-form scholarly book projects. From the call for proposals: We are delighted to announce support and funding for three experimental book publishing pilots as part of the Open Book Futures (OBF) project. These pilot ...

EVENT: DH Office Hours: Lightning Talks Fall 2023

Northeastern University’s Digital Scholarship Group and NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks are hosting a set of virtual lightning talks on November 1 at 12–1pm Eastern, 9–10am Pacific, 4–5pm Greenwich Mean Time: The panel will feature lightning talks by: Brian Ball—Philosophy, Northeastern University London—on the Simulating Epistemic Injustice project Tieanna Graphenreed—English—on THE BROWNIES’ BOOK: Mapping ...

EVENT: World Digital Preservation Day

World Digital Preservation Day is Tuesday, November 2 ,2023. The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) “invites all data creators, archivists, curators, community members and digipres folk from around the world to celebrate digital preservation by participating in a whole day dedicated to all of the benefits and opportunities enabled by the hard work of our dynamic ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Quarterly Community Event

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is hosting a virtual community event on Friday, November 3rd from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (EST): The DHQ editorial team will present on a series of new initiatives the journal has accomplished and introduce exciting updates on our site re-design. We look forward to bringing together the DHQ community of readers, authors, ...

OPPORTUNITY: Journal of Map & Geography Libraries Editorial Board

The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is seeking 10 individuals to join their Editorial Board. From the email announcement:  The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is seeking 10 individuals to join the Editorial Board and contribute to the future directions and success of the journal. We aim to assemble an Editorial Board with ...