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 ...

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: Jackson State University Black Digital Humanities Speaker Series

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 ...

EVENT: CDHI Visiting Speaker Series: Allie Martin on Black Sonic Life

The Critical Digital Humanities Initiative (CDHI) at the University of Toronto is hosting a talk by Allie Martin (Dartmouth College), tentatively entitled “Black Covid Care: Building Sonic Constellations of Black Life.” From the talk description: Her work is attuned to questions of race, sound and power. Her forthcoming first book, Intersectional Listening: Gentrification and Black Sonic ...

CFP: 2023 CLIR Events: DLF Forum, Learn@DLF, and Digital Preservation 2023

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) has released the call for proposals for the Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum, Learn@DLF, and the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) Digital Preservation conference. All three allied events will be held in-person in St. Louis, MO in mid-November: the Learn@DLF pre-conference on November 12, DLF Forum November ...

JOB: Assistant Professor & Digital Pedagogy Librarian, University of Dayton

From the announcement: The University of Dayton seeks an innovative, collaborative, flexible, and service-oriented professional to serve as the Digital Pedagogy Librarian. This is a 12-month, tenure-track faculty position at the rank of assistant professor with an anticipated start of July 1, 2023. The successful candidate will play an important role in developing and advancing ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Coordinator, Rice University

From the announcement: Fondren Library seeks a creative, collaborative digital initiatives coordinator to help plan, develop and maintain digital scholarship and digital collections projects. As Fondren Library expands digital scholarship partnerships, the digital initiatives coordinator will help to devise strategies for supporting and sustaining such projects, conduct outreach, perform consultations, and develop and implement project ...

RESOURCE: Refreshed Sites for Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has published a new site for the Blackwell Companions to Digital Humanities. This new site for A Companion to Digital Humanities (2004) and A Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) is aimed towards long term preservation and a full text search has been added. According to the project’s GitHub repository, The content ...

EVENT: 2022 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: African Archives and Digital Recovery

African DH@KU is hosting the 2022 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: African Archives and Digital Recovery on October 6, 2022. Hosted on Zoom, the symposium includes two panels, a keynote by Dr. Roopika Risam (Dartmouth College) and a closing dialogue with Jennifer Hart (Wayne State University) and Kuukuwa Manful (SOAS, University of London). This year’s ...

EVENT: Sharing your Digital Collections

Deep South DH is hosting a free online workshop on “accessible ways to upload and share your own projects online,” “Sharing Your Digital Collections.” We will be joined by University of Idaho librarians from the CollectionBuilder team, who will lead participants through getting started and setting up CollectionBuilder to host an interactive, digital project for free. ...