EVENT: ACRL DSS PDC: What do we do differently? Perspectives on Digital Project Management in Libraries and Archives

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Professional Development Committee is hosting a webinar, “What do we do differently? Perspectives on Digital Project Management in Libraries and Archives” on Friday, October 21st starting at 1pm (Central). Orchestrating a complete digital project management lifecycle to preserve and make archival collections accessible online can often be a challenge. The ...

CFP: HASTAC 2023: Critical Making & Social Justice

The Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC), in partnership with Pratt Institute,  has issued a CFP for it’s 2023 conference: Critical Making and Social Justice. From the announcement: HASTAC 2023 welcomes submissions from practitioners at all stages of their careers; from all disciplines, occupations, and fields; and from groups as well as ...

CFP: International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) Web Archiving Conference

The 2023 IIPC Web Archiving Conference: Resilience and Renewal issued a call for proposals, open until November 1st, 2022. The conference itself will have in-person and online days. Presentation categories for the in-person days include 20-minute presentations, 60-minute panels, posters and demos (with accompanying 5-minute lightning talks), workshops, and tutorials. Online presentation categories include 20-minute ...

OPPORTUNITY: Managing Editor for Reviews in Digital Humanities

Reviews in Digital Humanities is looking for a Managing Editor, and offering a $5,000 honorarium for each year of commitment (with the possibility of renewal). Applicants will be considered starting October 15th, and would begin November 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023. From the description of the role: The role of the Managing Editor includes: ...

OPPORTUNITY: Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining Institute

UC Berkeley Library has been awarded nearly $50,000 by the NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant Program to fund the study of legal and ethical issues in cross-border text data mining, which builds on a 2019 project, Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining, Cross-Border (LLTDM-X). The goals of LLTDM-X are: …to design instructional materials and institutes ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (University of Idaho)

From the announcement: The University of Idaho Library and CollectionBuilder team seeks an innovative, flexible, and highly collaborative individual who will help promote, document, and teach the open source static web digital collections platform, CollectionBuilder. This position will closely collaborate with CollectionBuilder team members to build community around the tool through the execution and administration of their ...

JOB: Digital Preservation Analyst (University of Virginia)

From the announcement: The University of Virginia Library seeks a collaborative, curious, and communicative Digital Preservation Analyst to join the Library’s digital preservation program team in Preservation Services. The Digital Preservation Analyst (DPA) will report to and work closely with the Digital Preservation Librarian to scale, support, and maintain digital preservation systems, services, and workflows ...

JOB: Data Curator and GIS Librarian (Washington University in St. Louis)

From the announcement: Reporting to the Head of Data Services, the Data Curator and GIS Librarian serves as a specialist for research data management and data curation, and Libraries liaison for GIS and spatial data. In collaboration with the Data Services team, this position is responsible for instructional programming, collection development, data management, outreach, and ...

RECOMMENDED: Good Systems Humanist-in-the-Loop: Responsible Data Operations and Workforce Development in Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Tanya Clement (U Texas), Andi Gustavson (U Texas), Allyssa Guzman (U Texas), Nathan Alexander Moore (CU Boulder), and Lauren Walker (U Texas) have published a white paper entitled “Good Systems Humanist-in-the-Loop: Responsible Data Operations and Workforce Development in Libraries, Archives, and Museums” on the University of Texas at Austin’s Texas Scholar Works repository. This paper ...

RESOURCE: Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

Toolkits for Equity has released their latest toolkit, Antiracism Toolkit for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Hosted on PubPub in collaboration with Coalition for Diversity & Inclusion in Scholarly Communications (C4DISC), the Society for Scholarly Publishing (SSP), and the Knowledge Futures Group, this toolkit is aimed towards BIPOC as a resource to navigate the scholarly ...

EVENT: Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference

Registration for Bucknell University’s Digital Scholarship Conference (#BUDSC22) is now open. This year’s conference, held virtually on October 18-20, is titled “Converging Paths: Digital Scholarship, Social Justice, and Intersecting Communities,” and will focus on the question, “What are the paths through which digital scholarship intersects with communities and social justice?” General registration is $50, and ...