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CFP: 2020 Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium

Sep

19

2019

The 2020 Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium invites you to participate in a conversation on Technologies and Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Information Studies. The conference will take place on July 24, 2020 in Washington, DC at George Washington University. From the call: This gathering seeks to create an inclusive space ...

EVENT: Centering Art History & Visual Culture in the Digital Humanities

Sep

19

2019

A Symposium Celebrating 10 Years of the Wired! Lab will be hosted by Duke University on October 17-18, 2019. This conference will highlight the analysis of spatial problems through computational methods and digital visualization, focusing on the contributions of art historians and visual culture scholars. The event is intended to spark conversations on spatial and ...

OPPORTUNITY: Research Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Call for Applicants

Sep

19

2019

The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is inviting applications to attend “Research Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies,” a two-week program that will afford 25 participants (ACLS Summer Scholars) the opportunity to collaborate with other scholars from Minority Serving Institutions. The institute will be held July 26-August 8, 2020. From the call: This ACLS summer institute is designed ...

JOB: Research Scientist (Georgia Tech)

Sep

19

2019

From the announcement: Georgia Tech’s Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (DILAC), with major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks a research scientist for design, development, and project management in the context of our diverse scholarly, pedagogical, expressive, and public-facing digital projects. We are particularly looking for expertise with digital archives encompassing text, audio, ...

RECOMMENDED: Manifesto: A Life on the Hyphen

Sep

12

2019

In their new article in Digital Humanities Quarterly Hélène Huet, Suzan Alteri, and Laurie N. Taylor from the University of Florida reflect on the challenges of engaging in “invisible work and life on the hyphen — between the academy and the library and between the human and the digital.” “Manifesto: A Life on the Hyphen: Balancing ...

POST: OCR Now Available in the National Archives Catalog

Sep

12

2019

The National Archives has announced the addition of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) search capabilities to its online catalog. Until now, the catalog was only searchable by a few metadata fields — including title and description — or crowdsourced tags and transcriptions. OCR functionality will improve search across millions of pages, and potentially make findable some ...

POST: Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain

Sep

12

2019

This Motherboard post by Karl Bode details efforts of archivists, activists, and libraries to vastly expand the number public domain books that are being digitized, with particular emphasis on books published between 1923 and 1964. “As it currently stands, all books published in the U.S. before 1924 are in the public domain, meaning they’re publicly ...

EVENT: Digital Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges – Registration Open

Sep

12

2019

Hosted by the University at Albany, University Libraries and Binghamton University Libraries, Digital Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges is a one-day conference that will bring together scholars interested in exploring all aspects of digital scholarship. The conference will showcase new and important digital research projects, explore the potential of new and emerging trends in digital scholarship ...

CFP: Digital Initiatives Symposium 2020

Sep

12

2019

University of San Diego’s Copley Library has announced its call for proposals for the Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium on April 27-28, 2020. Organizers welcome proposals from a wide variety of organizations, including colleges and universities of all sizes, community colleges, public libraries, special libraries, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. They are especially interested ...

JOB: Digital Production Manager (University of California, Davis)

Sep

12

2019

From the announcement: Under general direction of the Library’s Director of Online Strategy, assist in the development of strategy and the execution of digital programs that drive innovation and enable the UC Davis Library to engage with faculty, students, and external communities. Responsible for providing advice and input for launching internally sponsored projects that may ...

RECOMMENDED: Recoding Relations

Sep

5

2019

Recoding Relations, a podcast produced out of the Symposium for Indigenous New Media (#SINM2018), addresses best practices and models to support Indigenous peoples and research in the digital humanities. The creators currently offer four episodes: People Over Tools Indigeneity in DH Decolonial Digital Remediation Each of these episodes addresses intersections between Indigeneity and DH, in ...