CFP: Boston DH 2024 Conference

The call for proposals for Boston DH 2024, a “one day symposium of greater Boston-area scholars, community members, library and archives professionals, students, and practitioners across disciplines who engage with digital approaches, pedagogy, and methods in humanities and social sciences research” has been extended to February 16, 2024. The event will take place on April ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Civic Switchboard Institutes

With the support of IMLS funding, Civic Switchboard aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems. The project team has announced a series of institutes taking place throughout 2024 that may be of interest to library workers engaged with digital research support and data literacy instruction. From the announcement: ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Statistics and Network Analysis Workshops (Mathematical Humanists Project)

The Mathematical Humanists project, from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History at New Media at George Mason University and the University of California-Los Angeles, is offering a series of workshops “on the mathematics that underpins common Digital Humanities (DH) methods.” Workshops will cover topics such as applied statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete ...

CFP: The Digital Lifecycle

The Best Practices Exchange is accepting session proposals for their next (un)conference, The Digital Life Cycle, to be held at California State University, Sacramento on June 10-12, 2024. Proposed sessions can be in a variety of formats and will ideally focus on any aspect of the digital life cycle, but proposals on topics not related ...

JOB: Data Science Community Lead (UC Santa Barbara)

From the posting: Hourly range: $29.55 – $38.46/hr The UCSB Library’s DREAM Lab seeks a Data Science Community Lead organizer to join our team of research and technology professionals.  We seek a creative, dynamic, and technologically proficient individual to support and expand our Data and Software Carpentry education community on the UCSB campus.The Data Science ...

CFP: ACRL Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook

Editors Fiona Kovacaj and Victoria James are seeking proposals for chapters/recipes “on instructional activities for teaching about the Digital Humanities through a critical lens” for a Critical Digital Humanities Cookbook to be published by ACRL. The outline of the book includes five sections: Defining the Digital Humanities, Digital Tools, Data & Metadata, Preservation, and Access. The ...

RECOMMENDED: Collections as Data: Part to Whole Final Report

The Collections as Data: Part to Whole team recently released their final report. The report is a summary of the last five years of work and a sharing out of discussions from the recent international summit in Vancouver. The report ends with reflections on moving forward in a way that recognizes the potential of collections ...

CFP: Call for General Volume Editors, Debates in the Digital Humanities

The Debates in the Digital Humanities series is looking for an editorial team for the next general volume in the series. They welcome proposals from teams or from individuals, and the proposal should consist of an editorial statement of 500 words that describes a vision for the upcoming volume and a statement about the state ...

CFP: Programming Historian Lessons (English edition)

The English-language edition of the Programming Historian is seeking proposals for new lessons (or translations of existing lessons) for publication in 2024. Some possible lesson areas for proposals include: text encoding and NLP (especially for multilingual corpora), machine learning, critical approaches to AI, multimodal techniques, JavaScript, web scraping, mapping, gaming, 3D modelling, and immersive visualization ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities and Emerging Technologies (webinar)

The Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) is hosting “Digital Humanities and Emerging Technologies: Collaboration, Vision, and the Future,” a webinar on the use of augmented reality “for archival and visualization purposes. Specifically, it will highlight a collaboration using augmented reality between Ohio State design professor Matt Lewis and staff from the Reynolds-Finley Historial Library.” ...

CFP: Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Conference

Digital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries (DHNB) has posted a call for proposals for its 8th conference, to be held May 27-31 in Reykjavík, Iceland. The conference theme is “From Experimentation to Experience: Lessons Learned from the Intersections Between Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage” and they are especially interested in reflections on collaborative ...