“How can we move beyond a monolingual DH, and promote exchange of works among linguistic communities? And how can we ensure this exchange is ongoing and sustainable?”

dh+lib has long been interested in tackling these issues for our community of practice. The 2016 Digital Humanities conference will offer an opportunity to design and test an approach: attendees at a July 12 preconference workshop will join dh+lib editors and leaders from Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH) and the Libraries and DH SIG (both Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Special Interest Groups) in an attempt to take up these questions and hack a solution.[1. The full list of workshop organizers: Sarah Potvin (Texas A&M University), Élika Ortega (University of Kansas), Isabel Galina (National University of Mexico), Alex Gil (Columbia University), Daniel Paul O’Donnell (University of Lethbridge), Patrick Williams (Syracuse University), Zoe Borovsky (University of California Los Angeles), Roxanne Shirazi (City University of New York), Zach Coble (New York University), and Glen Worthey (Stanford University). Additional thanks to dh+lib editor Josh Honn (Northwestern University) for helping to forge a dh+lib approach to translation.]

The workshop will introduce translation work and practices, and move towards developing a pilot translation process for dh+lib with potentially broad applicability to other scholarly communication vehicles and venues. The group will think through existing infrastructure, address questions around translation, labor, and design, and perform hands-on translation. We will build on previous translation exercises put into practice by GO::DH and dh+lib, including DH Whisperers, the simultaneous bilingual publication of blog posts, and the newly-created GO::DH Translation Toolkit.

The weekly dh+lib Review is made possible by more than two hundred volunteer editors-at-large, four Review editors, a handful of dh+lib editors, PressForward developers, and American Library Association technical staff. We think a community translation effort will need to build upon and extend these generous contributions.

As a first step: we’d like the hands-on translation efforts undertaken at DH2016 to focus on works nominated by the DH and libraries community. Isabel Galina has pointed to “… a general perception of an Anglo-American dominance and English language as the main language” in DH, observing that, even when vibrant DH unfolds in, for example, German- and French-language communities “… a lack of publications and communications in English leads to invisibility on the mainstream channels.” While translation may ultimately proceed in multiple directions, we’d like to start with non-English language works that you want to see translated into English, to address the gap that Galina describes.

In the interest of visibility, transparency, and ease of participation, there are two ways you can nominate content:

• Tweet a link to the work, with the hashtag #GOdhlib
• Add information about the work to an open GoogleSheet

To make sure works are included in these initial translation efforts, tweet or add them by Friday, July 8.

Roxanne Shirazi

Roxanne is the Dissertation Research Librarian at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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Patrick Williams

Patrick Williams is Associate Librarian for Literature, Rhetoric, and Digital Humanities in the Syracuse University Libraries. He received his MSIS and PhD in Information Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is the editor of the poetry journal Really System.

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Zach Coble

Zach is the Digital Scholarship Specialist at New York University.

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**update** dh+lib and HASTAC both planned meetups for Wednesday at Smugglers’ Cover, so we’re joining forces for a joint dh+lib/HASTAC Meetup! Note the time is now 6:00-8:00. All are welcome!

Attending the Digital Humanities Summer Institute and interested in how libraries, archives, and museums contribute to the “teaching, research, dissemination, creation, and preservation” of the digital humanities? Join dh+lib for an informal gathering on Wednesday, June 8, 6:00-8:00pm, at Smugglers Cove Pub.

Editors Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Sarah Potvin, and Zach Coble will be there as the meetup organizers and dh+lib representatives, but we’re counting on you to bring the conversation, merriment, and community!

Smugglers Cove Pub: 2581 Penrhyn Street (Cadboro Bay), Victoria, BC.

Watch this space for other dh+lib conference meetups throughout the coming months!

Zach Coble

Digital Scholarship Specialist, New York University

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Celeste Sharpe and Jeri Wieringa (George Mason University) have written a post on the Association for Computers and the Humanities blog about their experience with DH Bridge, “an open curriculum and workshop framework for teaching computational thinking in the context of the humanities.”

Taking a cue from Rails Bridge and Rails Girls, the project:

set out to adapt the model of a distributed pedagogy to the needs of humanities scholars who, while not looking to become programmers per se, want to develop the skills and patterns of thinking necessary to apply computational methods to their scholarship.

The course explored the Digital Public Library of America’s collections using Python and the Natural Language Toolkit. Pedagogically speaking, Sharpe and Wieringa chose to lead participants from concrete problems and data to more abstract concepts, which is the opposite approach of many coding tutorials, because they found that that the former had a better balance between the conceptual and technical.

The organizers also argued that their training model fills a need in the DH training landscape for local and regional events that are informal and offer intensive learning opportunities yet are not resource intensive to organize or attend (i.e. no registration costs, only one or two days, and minimal travel requirements).

The Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative is accepting submissions for a special issue on TEI and Materiality. Submissions are accepted in two categories: “research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words and shorter articles reflecting new research or new tools/services of 2000-4000 words.” jTEI is a peer-reviewed, open access publication. Potential topics include:

• Conceptual and theoretical discussions of the relationship between the encoded text and the material object
• Discussion of interfaces that present details about materiality (beyond the standard combination of encoded text and facsimile page image)
• Innovative uses of the TEI Guidelines to model material aspects of the document
• Proposed new features for the TEI Guidelines that would provide further support for modeling material aspects of the text-bearing object.
• The use of TEI in combination with other standards and technologies to support the investigation of materiality

In an effort to bring new voices and perspectives to its annual conference, the Digital Library Federation (DLF) is offering several fellowships and travel awards. The DLF Forum will be held October 26-28, 2015, in Vancouver, British Columbia. The fellowships and awards include:

• ARL + DLF Forum Fellowships for Underrepresented Groups
• DLF Forum Fellowships for Students and New Professionals
• DLF Forum Museum Cross-Pollinator Fellowships
• DLF + ER&L Cross-Pollinator Travel Awards
• VRA + DLF Cross-Pollinator Travel Grant (coming soon)

Up to 15 fellows and travel award winners will receive travel assistance and complimentary Forum registration. Applications are due by 4:00pm EDT on May 22, 2015 (with the exception of the VRA + DLF Grant, which are due June 15), and the fellows will be announced in July.

Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, a new book edited by Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Laura Braunstein, and Liorah Golomb is available from the American Library Assocation. The book, published in collaboration with the ACRL Literatures in English Section, features a “collection of essays focusing on the role of the subject specialist in creating, supporting, and promoting digital humanities projects. Chapter authors include experts from diverse areas, such as humanities subject specialists, digital humanities librarians, special collections librarians, and professors and graduate students from many disciplines.” Additionally, authors use real-world examples to provide practical advice on supporting and collaborating on digital humanities projects.

Brian Sarnacki (University of Nebraska, Lincoln) has created a tutorial for beginners interested in using the visualization tool Gephi (Mac users having trouble with Gephi should start here). Sarnacki provides a sample CSV file that lists bankers in Grand Rapids in 1902, and walks through the process of prepping data, importing the CSV file into Gephi, and creating and fine-tuning visualizations.

Proposals are being accepted for Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze, to be held November 12-13, 2015, at the University of Michigan. Possible topics include:

• The role of libraries, archives and museums in building and sustaining curated web collections.
• Methods and tools for preserving and curating online materials.
• Resources and best practices to promote access to and use of preserved websites and social media platforms.
• On-demand web archiving and the creation of public web archives for documenting research.
• Descriptive and citation practices for web archives.
• Approaches to studying and analyzing web archive data.
• Pedagogical strategies for teaching in the archive and with archival data.
• Analysis of web and social media materials as cultural documents.
• Preservation threats (such as technological and format obsolescence) that could impact the rendering and use of archived web content over the long-term.

Formats include 75-minute workshops, 20-minute paper presentations, and 75-minute panel presentations. Submit 200-300 word abstracts, along with brief biographical statements for each participant, to webarc2015@umich.edu by May 15, 2015.

Scholarly Editing: The Annual of the Association for Documentary Editing is accepting proposals for its 2016 issue from individuals interested in editing a small-scale digital edition, which will be peer reviewed and open access.

We believe that many scholars have discovered fascinating texts that deserve to be carefully edited and published, and we offer a venue to turn these discoveries into sustainable, peer-reviewed publications that will enrich the digital record of our cultural heritage.

If you are interested in editing a small-scale digital edition of a single document or a collection of documents, we want to hear from you.

Proposals for digital editions are due May 15, 2015. Scholarly Editing is also accepting articles discussing any aspect of the theory or practice of editing, print or digital, with a submission deadline of September 14, 2015.

From the position description:

Reporting to the Scholarly Communication, Copyright and Publishing Program Director, the Digital Scholarship Librarian provides expertise, information management, technical and organizational skills to the realization of the Library’s Scholarly Communication Program’s strategic goals and initiatives in a highly collaborative environment. The successful candidate will coordinate and implement programs that provide the faculty, students, and staff with current information, education, tools, and resources for the dissemination of the results of research, scholarship, teaching, and learning, and will participate in the planning, development, and management of Dartmouth’s scholarly repository and a Digital Scholarship Center.

The Public Knowledge Project (PKP) is accepting proposals for its annual Scholarly Publishing Conference, to be held August 11-14, 2015 in Vancouver. Suggested topics include:

• Roles for next generation scholars, researchers, and librarians;
• Community connections and partnerships among scholarly journals, the digital humanities, and libraries;
• Open education and open learning;
• New reading and publishing technologies, e.g., innovative reader interfaces;
• Sustainability for Open: finance and beyond;
• From scholarly publishing to scholarly products, e.g. the next generation scholarly monograph;
• New approaches to assessing research outcomes and impact;
• The full research lifecycle and new linkages with scholarly publishing, e.g. research data.

Abstracts are being solicited for 5-minute lightning talks and 2-day development sprint. Deadline for submissions is May 1, 2015.