RESOURCE: LOC By The People Transcription Datasets

The Library of Congress By The People project has released two new datasets from its crowdsourced transcription campaigns, the correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz and the notebooks of Frederick Hockley. The O’Keeffe/Stieglitz dataset includes over 500 letters they wrote between 1929-1947 to their friend Henwar Rodakiewicz, a documentary filmmaker. The digital collection of ...

EVENT: Overcoming Legal Barriers to Text and Data Mining

“Overcoming Legal Barriers to Text and Data Mining” hosted by ACH on May 15 at 1pm EST is a free webinar open that is open to ACH-members and non-members. From the event description: This webinar is meant to help researchers understand how existing law can help them move forward on text and data mining projects ...

EVENT: wikihistories2023 Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting)

Registration is now open for the first annual wikihistories symposium: Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting), a free virtual conference that will be re-run across a number of time zones between June 7th and June 9th to best accommodate registrants around the world. The symposium will feature keynotes by Dr. Shira Klein, author of ...

EVENT: Adventures in handwriting recognition with Transkribus

Adventures in handwriting recognition with Transkribus – experimentation with archives in Aotearoa New Zealand (May 9th 11 am AEST) is a free online event that explores a number of handwriting transcription projects and new features of Transkribus. The talk will feature Vivienne Cuff, an archivist based at the Dunedin Regional Office of Archives New Zealand, ...

EVENT: ACH 2023

ACH 2023 focuses on equity and justice in digital humanities scholarship, choosing to highlight the sociopolitical aspects of the work in the place of a formal theme. The keynote will be a roundtable focusing on accessibility and digital scholarship. Registration is now open. The conference will be held virtually from June 29-July 1.

EVENT: Directions in Digital Scholarship

Coalition of Networked Information (CNI) is inviting people from its member institutions to a webinar on May 24 from 1-2:30 EST, “Directions in Digital Scholarship: Support for Digital, Data-Intensive, and Computational Research: What’s Next?” This talk will explore campus partnerships, communication, reorganization of library units, and policy development and strategies around current societal issues. From ...

EVENT: HASTAC 2023 Critical Making & Social Justice

HASTAC 2023 Critical Making & Social Justice  (June 8-10) explores creative and design-based approaches to technology and education and will be held primarily in-person at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY with some hybrid and online opportunities. Sasha Costanza-Chock, author of Design Justice: Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need, will keynote the conference. In addition ...

CFP: 1st International Workshop on AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research

AI-HuSo’23, a workshop on AI in Digital Humanities, Computational Social Sciences and Economics Research, is open for submissions. The workshop will be held September 17-20, 2023 in Warsaw, Poland. From the call: This workshop is dedicated to the computational study of Social Sciences, Economics and Humanities, including all subjects like, for example, education, labour market, ...

CFP: TwinTalks 4: Understanding and Facilitating Remote Collaboration in DH

The fourth iteration of TwinTalks is open for submissions for a workshop to be held at DH 2023 “Collaboration as Opportunity” in Graz, Austria July 10-14. They are open to submissions that engage will all aspects of remote collaborative research and teaching in DH in addition to the role of research infrastructures in remote collaboration. ...

CFP: Peer Review and Project Showcase for the Recovery Hub for American Women Writers

The Recovery Hub for American Women Writers is looking for submissions of digital projects that recover women’s voices, in any state of completion, to be peer reviewed and featured on the Hub. Submissions are due June 2nd for the fall showcase. The projects will be publicized by the Society for the Study of American Women ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Omeka Training

Enrollment is open for Omeka’s intensive courses for both Omeka Classic and Omeka S. The classes are appropriate for both new and experienced users. Upon completion students will receive a certificate. The classes run for eight weeks and are offered three times a year but are limited to 20 participants. Enrollment costs $600. From the description: ...