CFP: Digital Pedagogy Institute 2023

Co-sponsors of the 9th Annual Digital Pedagogy Institute (DPI) Conference, the University of Toronto Scarborough Library, Brock University, Toronto Metropolitan University, and University of Waterloo, have announced a Call for Proposals. The virtual conference will take place August 16-17, 2023, and will welcome faculty, researchers, graduate students, educational developers, librarians, and many other post-secondary personnel. ...

JOB: Digital Collections & Reference Librarian, University of Wisconsin-Madison

From the announcement: The University of Wisconsin Law Library seeks an energetic and intellectually curious professional to join our team as the Digital Collections and Reference Librarian. This newly created position is responsible for managing and developing our growing UW Law School Digital Repository (https://repository.law.wisc.edu/) which provides open access to faculty research and scholarship, historical ...

JOB: Digital Publishing and Repository Librarian, Northwestern University

From the announcement: Northwestern University Libraries seek a Digital Publishing and Repository Librarian committed to open scholarship and providing innovative services to faculty and students for creating and publishing original educational and scholarly materials. This role is integral to the Libraries’ collaboration across campus and the wider academic community in the planning, execution, and assessment ...

JOB: Digital Engagement Specialist, Internet Archive

From the announcement: The Internet Archive is seeking a Digital Engagement Specialist to assist the philanthropy team in sharpening our communications strategy, creating content, and improving the donor experience. Come join a one-of-a-kind organization and help us connect with patrons around the world! We are a world-class nonprofit digital library headquartered in San Francisco. Our ...

RECOMMENDED: Diversity of Digital Humanities in IJHAC: Exemplary Publications, 2012-2022 Virtual Issue

The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing: A Journal of Digital Humanities has published a virtual special issue, “Diversity of Digital Humanities in IJHAC: Exemplary Publications, 2012-2022,” which makes available selected pieces from the last decade of the journal’s publications. From the introduction: IJHAC: A Journal of Digital Humanities has been published since 1989, ...

PROJECT: Visualizing Caribbean Literature

Visualizing Caribbean Literature (VCL) is an interactive database of literary works by Caribbean people or about the Caribbean experience, led by Schuyler Esprit (Create Caribbean Research Institute) and the students of HIS115: Digital Humanities Research at Dominica State College. From the home page: The database includes authors and titles that represents the diversity of the ...

POST: The Digital Campaigns Project

Writing for the Archive-It blog, Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod (University of South Carolina, Department of Political Science) describes the context and creation of the Digital Campaigns Project, a database of U.S. state legislative campaign websites from 2016-2022 that enables researchers to examine variation in state partisan agendas and rhetoric. The project, initially begun in 2016, is led ...

RESOURCE: (In)Accessibility and the Technocratic Library

The most recent special issue of First Monday, the online open-access journal devoted to studies of the Internet, is entitled “This feature has been disabled: Critical intersections of disability and information studies.” One contribution to this special issue, “(In)accessibility and the technocratic library: Addressing institutional failures in library adoption of emerging technologies,” focuses on the ...

RESOURCE: Making Sense of Digital Humanities

Making Sense of Digital Humanities by Julian Chambliss and Ellen Moll (both Michigan State University) is now available in a multitude of formats (an online Pressbooks edition, as an eBook, PDF, XML, or ODF). From the introduction: Our experience as teacher-scholars engaged with DH in and out of the classroom affords us some sense of the ...

RESOURCE: Poised at the Crossroads: Preservation and Public Access to Humanities Research

The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) has shared a talk from Sara Palmer and Lois Overbeck (both Emory University), entitled “Poised at the Crossroads: Preservation and Public Access to Humanities Research.” From the video description: Large, long-term humanities projects leave a wake of research that may become inaccessible or lost when publication is complete. Following ...

EVENT: DHSI 2023

Registration is now available for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2023 at the University of Victoria. The theme for 2023 is “A Place for Open Scholarship.” DHSI takes place June 5-9 on-campus and June 12-16 online. From the registration page: After several years of adjusting in-person plans and three successful years of online editions, we ...