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JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Florida State University

Oct

19

2023

From the posting: Florida State University (FSU) Libraries seeks a highly motivated, innovative, and collegial librarian for the position of Digital Humanities Librarian. Responsibilities Directly engage with faculty, students, and staff by providing consultations, instruction, online guides, and other support services related to research methodology, technical applications, and other aspects of digital humanities research Evaluate ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, University of Oklahoma

Oct

19

2023

From the posting: The University of Oklahoma Libraries is seeking a collaborative, detail-oriented individual to join our team as the Digital Projects Librarian. Working in the Bizzell Memorial Library, within the Digital Strategies and Innovation Division, this position reports to the Director of Digital Scholarship and Data Services. The successful candidate will be joining a ...

JOB: Metadata Consultant for the Humanities, Virginia Tech

Oct

19

2023

From the posting: The University Libraries at Virginia Tech seeks a full-time Metadata Consultant for the Humanities to serve as a library metadata expert for publishing and digital humanities work. This position will have a dual reporting line to the Coordinator of Metadata Technologies within the Metadata Services Unit (70% time), and to the Interim ...

RECOMMENDED: On Making in the Digital Humanities

Oct

5

2023

UCL Press has published an open-access volume focusing on DH’s processes as “making.” On Making in the Digital Humanities: The scholarship of digital humanities development in honour of John Bradley is an homage to John Bradley’s work in DH and “assembles a group of well-known, experienced and emerging scholars in the digital humanities to reflect ...

RECOMMENDED: Finding the Right Platform

Oct

5

2023

“Finding the Right Platform,” by Cheryl E. Ball, Corinne Guimont, and Matt Vaughn compares purposes and features of 10 different academy-owned, open-source publishing platforms, including Fulcrum, Humanities Commons, Janeway, Manifold, Mukrtu, Omeka, Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, PubPub, and Scalar. The piece is meant to help researchers, publishers, and librarians answer questions about their projects ...

RESOURCE: Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings

Oct

5

2023

The Programming Historian recently published a new lesson, Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings. Developed by Jonathan Reades and Jennie Williams, this lesson “uses word embeddings and clustering algorithms in Python to identify groups of similar documents in a corpus of approximately 9,000 academic abstracts. It will teach you the basics of dimensionality reduction ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities Community Bluesky Invite Codes

Oct

5

2023

Given the ongoing deterioration of Twitter as a viable space for the sharing of digital humanities work, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has begun exploring alternatives. Bluesky social has the makings of a viable alternative, but it requires an invitation to join. This form was created to facilitate the sharing of these invitation ...

CFP: Digital Commonwealth 18th Annual Conference

Oct

5

2023

From the call: The Digital Commonwealth’s 18th Annual Conference will be held online via Zoom on Tuesday April 30, 2024 from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM US East Coast Time. Digital Commonwealth’s Conference Committee invites interested speakers to submit abstracts of 1 page or less in length for presentations centered around the theme: Building Connections: ...

CFP: Comics as Computation

Oct

5

2023

Ilan Manouach (FNRS, ULiège) & Benoît Crucifix (KU Leuven, KBR) announce a call for submissions to Comics as Computation: An uninterrupted thread of operational intensity. From the call for proposals: This collective volume aims to provide a historical understanding of the intensification of automation in the comics industry, leading to today’s integration of algorithmic tools ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: 2023-2024 VRA Project Grant Call for Applications

Oct

5

2023

Visual Resources Association (VRA) announced the call for project grant applications for 2023-2024. From the VRA Project Grant description: The Visual Resources Association Project Grant awards up to $3,000 to support projects in the field of visual resources and image management. The project must be completed within one year from the time the grant is ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Digitizing Hidden Collections

Oct

5

2023

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announced its call for proposals for the 2023-2024 cycle of Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices. From the call: Launched in 2021, the program is designed to support efforts to digitize materials that deepen public understanding of the histories of people of color and other communities and ...