SURVEY: Minicomp/Wax Community Feedback

Before work begins on Wax 2.0, Marii Nyrop and Alex Gil are looking to learn from the community about what has worked, what hasn’t, what would be great to have. They have prepared a survey (and an optional follow up) to help gather feedback. You can also share your own Wax site using their other ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, University of Kansas

From the announcement: The Digital Humanities Librarian collaborates with faculty, staff, and students on the use of digital humanities (DH) scholarship, tools, and methods. Duties will include project consulting and development, working with course instructors to incorporate DH into the classroom, and providing training for faculty, staff, and students in digital humanities tools and methods. ...

JOB: Director, Digital Libraries and Preservation, Virginia Tech

From the announcement: Under the general direction of the Associate Dean & Executive Director of IT, the Director of Digital Libraries and Preservation is responsible for the strategic management and development of Virginia Tech’s comprehensive digital libraries and preservation program. They work collaboratively with stakeholders to plan and design the future of digital libraries and ...

JOB: Humanities Librarian, University of New Mexico

From the announcement (For best consideration, please apply by 7/28/2023. This position will remain open until filled): The University of New Mexico College of University Libraries and Learning Sciences (CUL&LS) seeks a collaborative, service-oriented, and innovative Humanities Librarian to support a dynamic library system with a strong outreach and instruction program. The successful candidate will ...

EVENT: FLDH Webinars: August Lineup

The Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) invites you to its August webinars series: Curaduría de datos y narrativas geoespaciales sobre redes de intercambio y comercio indígena en la región del Orinoco, siglos XV al XVIII Friday, August 4, 2 p.m EDT Register here Dr. Maria José Afanador-Llach, Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, Universidad de los Andes, Colombia ...

JOB: Associate Director or Senior Associate Director, Digital Humanities Center, Barnard College

From the announcement: Job: Associate Director or Senior Associate Director, Digital Humanities Center Job Summary: Reporting to the Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Center (DHC), this position provides leadership and coordination in the strategic planning and implementation of policies, systems, programs, and services to support the DHC’s mission. The Associate Director’s responsibilities include designing, ...

RECOMMENDED: Reviews in Digital Humanities, Vol. 4.4

The latest issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities (vol 4, no 4, April 2023) has been released. This issue features projects that were sourced from their open submission process. This issue’s Editors’ Note highlights the role the reviewers have in the journal and their philosophy towards review., from the piece:  We’ve been fortunate that all ...

PROJECT: Religious Ecologies

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media’s American Religious Ecologies project has received another grant to continue the work, focusing on the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies. The materials are an important source of information about American religious institutions and the project is working on transcribing them into datasets that can be used ...

POST: Touching Data: Conducting a Survey With Paper and Thread

A recent piece in Nightingale “Touching Data: Conducting a Survey With Paper and Thread” explores using physical data methods to collect survey results. This process also resulted instant visualization of the results. While this survey was not on a humanities specific topic, this method could provide interesting new ways to engage patrons with humanities data questions. ...

RESOURCE: Scholarly API Cookbook

The Scholarly API Cookbook is an open online book containing short scholarly API code examples (i.e., “recipes”) that demonstrate how to work with various scholarly web service APIs. It is part of the University of Alabama Libraries efforts to support Research Data Services and covers a variety of APIs, like Wikidata, Chronicaling America, and U.S. ...

RESOURCE: Jupyter notebooks for digital humanities

Jupyter notebooks for digital humanities is a list compiled by Quinn Dombrowski of Jupyter notebooks covering research, course materials, learning python, as well as specific forms of analysis. There are notebooks available in English, German, Spanish and French. The list was started in 2019, but was most recently updated in April 2023, making this a ...