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PROJECT: The Drug Policy Alliance Library

May

1

2025

The Internet Archive has released a new digital collection, the Drug Policy Alliance Library. An Internet Archive blog, authored by Caralee Adams, describes the source of the collection and the impetus for digitization: For many years, the Drug Policy Alliance (DPA) maintained a large library of books on drug use and policy at its New York ...

POST: ManoWhisper Visualizations

May

1

2025

Nick Ruest (York University) posted a blog, “ManoWhisper Visualizations,” detailing his work on ManoWhisper in partnership with University of Waterloo for the Digital Feminist Network. ManoWhisper is a compilation of “an ever-growing dataset of podcast transcripts comprising over 11,000 episodes from 20 podcasts associated with the Intellectual Dark Web, conspiracy theories, QAnon, the Alt-Right, White Supremacist/Nationalist movements, and the Manosphere.” ...

RESOURCE: Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python

May

1

2025

Programming Historian has released a lesson by Luling Huang (Missouri Western State University), titled “Creating a Dashboard for Interactive Data Visualization with Dash in Python.” The description for the lesson describes how, “Using two news media case studies, this lesson provides a practical guide for making digital humanities research outputs more accessible and engaging.” From ...

EVENT: Immersive Realities in the Humanities and Intro to FrameVR for Pedagogical Applications of Public History

May

1

2025

The US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) Center at the University of Houston is hosting two free online events in the month of May. On Tuesday, May 13, 2025 at 2 p.m. Eastern time the Immersive Realities in the Humanities workshop with Amanda Licastro (Swarthmore College) “explores how emerging technologies are being used to cultivate community ...

CFP: Scholars’ Lab Data Art Call For Proposals

May

1

2025

The Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia Library has released a call for proposals for “creative works that tell evocative, artistic, and thought-provoking stories with data” to be displayed in the Scholars’ Lab community space. From the call: We use “data art” rather than “data visualization” to emphasize we seek physical, compelling, data-inspired or ...

JOB: Information Specialist, Digital Scholarship Developer (UT San Antonio)

May

1

2025

From the announcement: Job Summary Leverage technical knowledge and skills to plan and implement library projects focused on making scholarship relevant to the community; utilize digital methods that value interdisciplinarity, collaboration, and critical inquiry. Advance student success and research excellence at UTSA by supporting research and instruction services, developing and maintaining strong faculty relationships and ...

POST: Support the NEH and IMLS

Apr

18

2025

The National Humanities Alliance (NHA) has released “NHA Statement on Threats to the NEH,” detailing the importance of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) staff and grant programs to cultural organizations amid recent cuts. The statement reads in part: Established in 1965, the National Endowment for the Humanities is the only entity, federal or ...

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

Apr

18

2025

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

Apr

18

2025

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

Apr

18

2025

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)

Apr

18

2025

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. ...