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CFP: ACH 2025 Panel – “Stuck on the List: Local Approaches to the DH Directory”

Apr

3

2025

A panel for the 2025 annual meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities is seeking participants for a virtual panel session during ACH 2025. The panel, “Stuck on the List: Local Approaches to the DH Directory,” organized by Kiran Mohammadi-Williams of Cornell University, proposes to “circulate ideas, questions, and thoughts about various methods ...

CFP: Oh, the (Digital) Humanity!: Building a Collaborative Future

Apr

3

2025

Scaffold: the Journal for the Institute of Comparative Studies of Literature, Art, and Culture has issued a call for papers for its next issue titled “Oh, the (Digital) Humanity!: Building a Collaborative Future,” which focuses on the importance of digital humanities in the academy. The journal seeks articles (5,000–7,000 words) that explore innovative uses of DH ...

CFP: Data Workshops in Academic Libraries

Apr

3

2025

Editors of a new ACRL book, Data Workshops in Academic Libraries: Building Literacy and Reproducible Research Skills, have shared a call for chapter proposals. From the call: This book will be a collection of essays that share the experiences, strategies, and lessons learned by librarians who have organized and facilitated data workshops in academic libraries. ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Public Humanities Fellowship

Apr

3

2025

Applications are open for the 2025-26 Public Humanities Fellowship program offered by Oregon State University’s PRAx Center. The theme of this year’s fellowship is “Trust in the Age of Generative AI,” asking applicants to consider how they might contribute to public-facing projects “that will deepen political, ethical and/or social engagement with issues related to data ...

JOB: Emerging Technology Lab Coordinator (San José State University)

Apr

3

2025

From the announcement: The University Library’s Emerging Technology Lab Coordinator develops and manages resources, policies, and activities that pertain to emerging technologies in King Library, especially those connected with King Library’s Virtual Experiential Reality Lab (KLEVR Lab). The incumbent works with faculty, staff and students in the library and on campus to develop curriculum and ...

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Mar

20

2025

Alongside our recent expansion of the dh+lib Review Editorial Team and some technical improvements to dhandlib.org, the dh+lib team will be retiring the WordPress plugin-operated mailing list we previously used to distribute the biweekly Review to readers’ inboxes. What this means: please take a moment to (re)subscribe to receive the dh+lib Review! Even if you ...

RECOMMENDED: ACH Town Halls

Mar

20

2025

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is holding two Town Hall meetings to “discuss recent events affecting Digital Humanities” that are “designed to hear your experiences regarding how the recent government actions are affecting your ability to pursue digital humanities, and the steps that ACH can take to support you and your communities.” ...

POST: Assessing Preservability in New Forms of Scholarship

Mar

20

2025

A recent guest post on the H-Net Book Channel titled “Assessing Preservability in New Forms of Scholarship” shares some outcomes of the Embedding Preservability project, the second project led by NYU Libraries to address preservation risks for complex digital publications. The authors note that this Mellon-funded project had two broad goals: “The first goal was ...

POST: Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting

Mar

20

2025

In this guest blog post on the Internet Archive by Nichole Misako Nomura (Stanford University), the author shares a brief history of the computational translations of knitting punch cards, starting with how they became proto-versions of code and taking us through the ins and outs of a digitization and preservation workflow. This blog post is ...

POST: How to Lead an Academic Social Network

Mar

20

2025

This open-access article in Public Humanities gives a brief history of HASTAC.org’s inception and growth, with the values of sharing knowledge in a free, open, and ethically minded group of scholars. Cathy N. Davidson (CUNY Graduate Center), the co-founder of HASTAC, writes lessons she learned in the creation and growth of this community of scholars, ...

EVENT: Digital Treatment of African Cultural Heritage

Mar

20

2025

On Monday, March 24, 2025, at 11:00am Eastern Time, Chijioke Okorie (University of Pretoria) will present a talk titled “Digital Treatment of African Cultural Heritage: Shifting Landmarks and Implications for Copyright Exceptions for Archives.” Registration required: RSVP here. From the event advertisement: This talk examines how copyright law must adapt to facilitate digital treatment of ...