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CFP: The Nineteenth-Century Data Collective: Call for Datasets and Data Essays

Oct

13

2022

The Nineteenth-Century Data Collective, which peer-reviews and houses literary or cultural data ca. 1800-1900 at Princeton University Library, invites submissions of datasets and data essays. From the call: Not simply a static repository, the Nineteenth-Century Data Collective hopes to increase discoverability for nineteenth-century datasets, share teaching resources, and most importantly, take data creation seriously as ...

OPPORTUNITY: Wikimedia Research Fund

Oct

13

2022

The Wikimedia Research Fund invites proposals for up to $50,000 to support individuals, groups, and organizations with research interests on or about Wikimedia projects. From the call: We encourage submissions from across research disciplines including but not limited to humanities, social sciences, computer science, education, and law. We aim to support applicants who have limited ...

OPPORTUNITY: Reviews Co-Editor, Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC)

Oct

13

2022

The open-access Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication (JLSC) invites applications to serve as a Reviews Co-Editor, to support a program of reviewing scholarship, platforms and tools, and programs and courses whose subject matter is directly connected to the journal’s publication scope. From the call: Working together, the Reviews Co-Editors are responsible for identifying publications and other ...

EVENT: Black Beyond Data Reading Group

Oct

13

2022

Black Beyond Data seeks to “create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities,” and meets during the last Friday of each month at 12:00noon Eastern Time (4:00pm UTC), via zoom. Register for the zoom link and to join the conversations. From the website: The Black Beyond Data Reading Group is focused on exploring ...

JOB: Black Studies Librarian, Black Bibliography Project (Rutgers University Libraries)

Oct

13

2022

From the announcement: The Rutgers University Libraries seek an innovative, collaborative and service-oriented librarian to serve as Black Studies Librarian. This new grant-funded position will support the work of the Black Bibliography Project (https://blackbibliog.org), an Andrew W. Mellon Foundation supported project based at Yale University and Rutgers (https://www.rutgers.edu/news/rutgers-researcher-developing-digital-bibliography-black-authors-and-print-work). Working with a team of faculty, librarians, technicians, ...

JOB: Head of Digital Learning and Scholarship (Trinity College)

Oct

13

2022

From the announcement: Trinity College seeks a staff that reflects the changing demographics of our student body. Our student body is diverse, representing 41 states and 70 countries, with 21 percent U.S. students of color and 50 percent who identify as women. More than 90 percent of students live on campus. Trinity is a highly ...

RECOMMENDED: Ian Linkletter on Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene

Sep

30

2022

Earlier this month, a podcast episode was released by Gettin’ Air with Terry Greene, featuring Ian Linkletter. Linkletter is a educational technology librarian, currently being sued by Proctorio, a surveillance technology company. The episode addresses his transition to librarianship from educational technology, and he emphasizes the need for librarians to critically engage with the tools ...

PROJECT: Día de los muertos: Altar digital

Sep

30

2022

Día de los muertos: Altar digital is an ArcGIS StoryMap journey through Hispanic literary heritage. It walks users through different authors, elements, and works that are placed on an ofrenda, created in 2020 by Roselia Bañuelos, Chris Flakus, Julio Antonio Molinete, Elías David Navarro, María Sánchez Carbajo, Alonzo Silavong, and Katerin Zapata at the University ...

RESOURCE: Refreshed Sites for Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities

Sep

30

2022

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has published a new site for the Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities. This new site for A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) is aimed towards long term preservation and a full text search has been added. According to the project’s GitHub repository, The content ...

EVENT: 2022 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: African Archives and Digital Recovery

Sep

30

2022

African DH@KU is hosting the 2022 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: African Archives and Digital Recovery on October 6, 2022. Hosted on Zoom, the symposium includes two panels, a keynote by Dr. Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College) and a closing dialogue with Jennifer Hart (Wayne State University) and Kuukuwa Manful (SOAS, University of London). This year’s ...

EVENT: Sharing your Digital Collections

Sep

30

2022

Deep South DH is hosting a free online workshop on “accessible ways to upload and share your own projects online,” “Sharing Your Digital Collections.” We will be joined by University of Idaho librarians from the CollectionBuilder team, who will lead participants through getting started and setting up CollectionBuilder to host an interactive, digital project for free. ...