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Toe Pick! Exploring Figure Skating Datasets Through Quilting

Jun

4

2025

Introduction Quilting can appear a complicated task at the outset, and rightly so. It uses specialized equipment, patterns, and involves many phases to complete a project. But when broken down into discrete steps, it becomes manageable. The same is true of data visualization: it is a science and also an art, taking sets of data ...

Invisible Stitches: A Semester at the Reference Desk, Quilted

Jun

4

2025

Introduction Academic libraries love data. Reference transaction data is essential to how academic libraries function, we’re told; the aggregated number of questions answered helps justify the institutional budget. The material reality of this means that librarians spend time logging what they do—the questions they answer must be entered and collected. With these collected data points, ...

Knot your average friendship bracelet: a data spiral

Jun

4

2025

At Princeton University, there is a two-week period every January in which all members of the institution are encouraged to teach and learn outside of the formal classroom contexts. This time between the Fall and Spring semester and all of its events and offerings is known as “Wintersession.” As part of a Wintersession offering facilitated ...

“Mnemonic Bracelets”: Physicalization of Quantified-Self Data to Encourage Mindfulness of Time-Specific Emotions and Goals

Jun

4

2025

I. Introduction As introduced by Knight in “Black Ribbon for Mourning: Affective Solidarity and Feeling Very Difficult Data” [1], the quantified self movement (also commonly referred to as self-tracking or lifelogging) [2] has been growing and sweeping the nation for over a decade [3]. It has primarily brought attention to user-centered tracking of health data, ...

Coding in Beads: Teaching Pythonic Loops with a Spiral Bracelet as a Manipulative

Jun

4

2025

Introduction Others have used beads to represent the English alphabet in binary for making name bracelets to represent the encoding and decoding process (Code.org, ND). In this project, we walk participants through creating a beaded bracelet as a manipulative to demonstrate the computation behind some types of flow control in Python. The creation of the ...

RECOMMENDED: dh+lib Summer Reading Series

May

15

2025

Calling all readers! The dh+lib Review is resuming our summer “What Are You Reading” Series. During our regular summer break, we invite our community to share their summer reading choices. Guest editors will create brief posts to discuss what they are reading and why the dh+lib audience might want to read it too. The series ...

RESOURCE: Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project

May

15

2025

A recently published article in the Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies (JCAS Vol 12, Article 3) highlights the Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project. Written by Emily Vinson (University of Houston) and Bethany Scott (Yale University), “The Gulf Coast LGBT Radio and Television Digitization Project: Providing Equitable Access to Houston’s LGBTQ Broadcast History,” ...

CFP: Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship

May

15

2025

The Journal of Critical Digital Librarianship, an open-access and open peer review journal, invites submissions focused on “feminist, anti-racist, anti-colonial, queer, and/or anti-ableist perspectives on digital librarianship.” From the call for submissions: We accept article manuscripts, literature reviews, and reviews of digital collections, as well as relevant multimedia explorations such as podcast episodes, information visualizations, ...

CFP: Hermeneutica in Practice: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stéfan Sinclair

May

15

2025

The Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur les humanités numériques (CRIHN) is hosting “Hermeneutica in Practice: Honoring the Work and Legacy of Stéfan Sinclair – A Conference on Text Analysis, Tool Building, and Critical Digital Humanities” September 10-12, 2025. From the call for proposals: We welcome submissions of papers, panels, and tool demonstrations for a bilingual ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: 2025-2026 H-Net Spaces Cohort Program

May

15

2025

H-NET Spaces invites applications for its 2025-2026 Cohort Program. This program supports projects that are still still in the early stages of development and/or scholars in need significant support and hands-on training in DH methods. The program provides additional support to scholars seeking to build a digital project with H-Net Spaces. Projects are open access ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACH DH in Libraries Special Interest Group Co-Chairs

May

15

2025

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) DH in Libraries Special Interest Group (SIG) is looking for two new co-chairs for the next academic year. An MLIS is not required, just a passion for the role of libraries in digital humanities. ACH membership is required for the co-chairs (general members of the SIG do ...