PROJECT: Footpath for the People? A Zine Companion to a Data Quilt about the Appalachian Trail

Zine Bakery released the zine, Footpath for the People? A Zine Companion to a Data Quilt about the Appalachian Trail  by Claudia Berger (Pratt Institute), a companion piece to “Footpath for the People?” analog data quilt, created as part of Berger’s Virtual Artist-in-Residency with the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab. The Zine Bakery post describes ...

CFP: Debates in the Digital Humanities 2028

The Debates in the Digital Humanities series invites 300 to 500 word abstracts for the upcoming 2028 volume. The call for proposals lists possible topics for submissions as: State of the field. What are the topics, methods, and other approaches that define the digital humanities? How do various sub-fields of DH relate to each other? ...

CFParticipation: Digital Humanities Job Survey

Matthew Hannah and Spencer Stewart (both Purdue University) have released a survey that “aims to assess how Digital Humanities (DH) and DH-adjacent programs in the United States have influenced career paths and professional development.” The survey description describes the goals of the survey: The goal is to evaluate how well undergraduate and graduate programs prepare ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Archivist (UMass Boston)

From the announcement: Reporting to the University Archivist and Curator of Special Collections, the Digital Initiatives Archivist is responsible for managing the digital assets of the University Archives and Special Collections (UASC). This includes developing and implementing digital research and pedagogical initiatives that align with the goals of the Archives, the Library, and the University. ...

POST: John2Vec, or embedding Dewey’s philosophy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, ...