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PROJECT: AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations)

Apr

22

2021

A new digital humanities project, AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations), is “designed to investigate the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play to make born-digital and digitised cultural records more accessible to users.” The project is funded by the New Directions for Digital Scholarship grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) ...

RESOURCE: Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments

Apr

22

2021

Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a “peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research.” The articles are organized by keywords that include a curatorial statement and artifacts that illustrate it, and they are browsable by type or subject matter or read like a printed collection. A helpful feature of the ...

EVENT: Making Research Data Public: Workshopping data curation for digital humanities projects

Apr

22

2021

Making Research Data Public: Workshopping data curation for digital humanities projects, a two-part workshop on making your research data public, will take place online on May 21 and May 28. The workshop is part of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Technologies East (DHSITE) and will focus on data curation for digital humanities projects. This workshop ...

EVENT: Digital Classicist London seminar 2021

Apr

22

2021

The theme for the Digital Classicist London seminar for 2021 is world classics, and the program consists of speakers who are “working with digital humanities and digital classics methods to the study of antiquity—whether language, corpora, archaeology—from across the world.” The sessions of the seminar will be streamed live on Youtube, with links to be ...

JOB: Programmer/Analyst II, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

Apr

22

2021

From the announcement: Working in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH), a joint venture between the College of Arts and Sciences and the University Libraries, the Programmer Analyst II is responsible for server-side programming; developing web applications; creating tests and documentation; and maintaining projects to support research in the humanities. The CDRH ...

RECOMMENDED: Addressing the Alarming Systems of Surveillance Built by Library Vendors

Apr

15

2021

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has released a news post that is essential reading on the current landscape of surveillance systems integrated into library vendor products: On April 2nd, news broke that RELX subsidiary LexisNexis signed a multi-million dollar contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). According to reporting on the ICE ...

PROJECT: The Endings Project

Apr

15

2021

In digital humanities librarianship work, we have many terms for project “endings,” from sunsetting and decommissioning, to reincarnating and archiving. All of these ask the same questions that the Endings Project aims to address: “How do and how should DH projects conclude?” Funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), the ...

PROJECT: Digital Humanities Net/Works

Apr

15

2021

Launched in December 2020 through the University of Buffalo Libraries, Digital Humanities Net/Works is an online forum and journal that offers opportunities for the “the exchange of ideas among DH practitioners on the most significant questions or issues in our field and on ways to rethink technology and online structures in order to make them ...

RESOURCE: CNI Final Report on Emerging Technologies for Research and Learning

Apr

15

2021

Sarah Lippincott’s ARL-CNI report, “Mapping the Current Landscape of Research Library Engagement with Emerging Technologies in Research and Learning” has been released. In it, she identifies strategic opportunities for research libraries to adopt and engage with emerging technologies, with a roughly five-year time horizon, such as utilizing “machine learning to improve research, learning, and scholarly ...

CFP: Connections: A Journal of Language, Media and Culture

Apr

15

2021

The interdisciplinary open access journal, Connections: A Journal of Language, Media and Culture, seeks submissions for its second issue centered on theme of “building bridges: maintaining connections found at the heart of cultural, multimedia, textual, or language-based interactions in times of crisis.” From the call: The journal welcomes original research manuscripts and creative works in ...

EVENT: Building A Transatlantic Digital Scholarship and Data Skills Exchange

Apr

15

2021

Research Libraries UK’s Digital Scholarship Network (RLUK DSN) and the Digital Library Federation’s Data and Digital Scholarship Working Group (DLFdds) are hosting an interactive event to explore shared interests between the US and UK research libraries in relation to digital scholarship and skills development, towards “building a transatlantic digital scholarship and data skills exchange.” From ...