Caitlin Christian-Lamb ← dh+lib

POST: John2Vec, or embedding Dewey’s philosophy

Apr

7

2023

Elisabetta Rocchetti and Tommaso Locatelli (both University of Milan) have authored a post on the ISLAB at Università degli Studi di Milano’s Tales from the ISLab blog, “John2Vec, or embedding Dewey’s philosophy.” This post describes using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), in this case, word2vec, on the massive text corpus of the writings of philosopher ...

EVENT: Professional Pathways in the Black Digital

Apr

7

2023

Temple University Libraries is hosting a virtual workshop on April 27, “Professional Pathways in the Black Digital.” From the workshop description: Digital tools are being used in a plethora of ways to study and serve the lived experiences and cultures of people across the African continent and Diaspora. These digital tools can include digital mapping, ...

EVENT: AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges Symposium

Apr

7

2023

Women in Focus, Full Stack Feminism, and the Sussex Humanities Lab are hosting the AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges Symposium. The full-day hybrid symposium is on April 27, with the in-person portions taking place at the University of Sussex Sussex Humanities Lab. From the symposium description: AI and Archives: Explorations, Possibilities and Challenges ...

EVENT: Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) Workshops

Apr

7

2023

The Digital Preservation Outreach & Education Network (DPOE-N) is hosting two upcoming online workshops. The first workshop is “Climate change, archives, and digital preservation” on April 21, taught by Eira Tansey (University of Cincinnati). Participants need to RSVP by April 17. From the workshop description: Climate change poses enormous challenges to archives and archivists. In ...

CFP: Feminist Fabulations in Algorithmic Empires

Apr

7

2023

Frontiers in Communication has released a call for papers for their research area, “Feminist Fabulations in Algorithmic Empires.” According to the call, “Fabulation refers to the way we tell stories and has recently emerged as a useful concept to reemphasize and recenter human pluralities in contemporary technocentric digital systems. Prioritizing storytelling and embodiment helps to ...

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

Apr

7

2023

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 ...

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

Mar

23

2023

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

Mar

23

2023

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 ...

RESOURCE: Making Sense of Digital Humanities

Mar

23

2023

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

Mar

23

2023

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: Jackson State University Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series

Mar

23

2023

The Diversity Working Group (DWG) at the University of Toronto and the Department of Arts and Theatre at Jackson State University are hosting the Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series in March and April. As the landing page describes, In a recently published special issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly on Black Digital Humanities, editors Alanna Prince and Cara ...