OPPORTUNITY: Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Grant

The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) has recently announced three new grant opportunities with awards ranging from $50,000 to $150,000. The three different categories for award include: higher education; library, archives, and museums grant; and a program for an artist or scholar in residence. Higher Education grant: open to two-year and four-year minority-serving higher education ...

PROJECT: AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations)

A new digital humanities project, AEOLIAN (Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Organisations), is “designed to investigate the role that Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play to make born-digital and digitised cultural records more accessible to users.” The project is funded by the New Directions for Digital Scholarship grant from the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) ...

RESOURCE: Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities: Concepts, Models, and Experiments

Digital Pedagogy in the Humanities is a “peer-reviewed, curated collection of reusable and remixable resources for teaching and research.” The articles are organized by keywords that include a curatorial statement and artifacts that illustrate it, and they are browsable by type or subject matter or read like a printed collection. A helpful feature of the ...

EVENT: Making Research Data Public: Workshopping data curation for digital humanities projects

Making Research Data Public: Workshopping data curation for digital humanities projects, a two-part workshop on making your research data public, will take place online on May 21 and May 28. The workshop is part of the Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Technologies East (DHSITE) and will focus on data curation for digital humanities projects. This workshop ...

EVENT: Digital Classicist London seminar 2021

The theme for the Digital Classicist London seminar for 2021 is world classics, and the program consists of speakers who are “working with digital humanities and digital classics methods to the study of antiquity—whether language, corpora, archaeology—from across the world.” The sessions of the seminar will be streamed live on Youtube, with links to be ...

JOB: Programmer/Analyst II, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (University of Nebraska-Lincoln)

From the announcement: Working in the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH), a joint venture between the College of Arts and Sciences and the University Libraries, the Programmer Analyst II is responsible for server-side programming; developing web applications; creating tests and documentation; and maintaining projects to support research in the humanities. The CDRH ...

RESOURCE: Reframing Digital Humanities

Season 2 of Reframing Digital Humanities, a podcast by Julian Chambliss (Michigan State University), is now available as an open access text. Season one drew Chambliss’ attention to the challenge of definition around digital humanities, so season two became a series of conversations with scholars about digital humanities. According to Chambliss, to create the list ...

EVENT: OCLC Research Discussion Series: Next Generation of Metadata

The third and final part of OCLC Research Discussion Series, the Closing Plenary webinar, will take place on Tuesday, April 13, and will bring together and highlight what was discussed in the previous sessions. The series focused around two reports: “Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata”, by Karen Smith-Yoshimura, which “brought together six years ...

OPPORTUNITY: Building a National Finding Aid Network: we need your help!

OCLC Research has put out a call for focus group participants to help them improve access to their archival collections. The focus group is part of their work on the Building a National Finding Aid Network project and is intended to garner insight from those who work with an archival collection in a library, archive, museum, ...

JOB: Head of Library Digital Scholarship and Communication Services (Northern Kentucky University)

From the announcement: Primary Responsibilities Leadership in Digital Scholarship & Communications Supervises a team of librarians and staff responsible for implementing research services and outreach, including workload distribution, goal setting, performance evaluation, teaching observations, and professional development. Provides leadership for the development, maintenance, and support of digital scholarship services, programming, and research for both undergraduate ...

RECOMMENDED: Price Lab Podcast

The Price Lab Podcast, from the Price Lab for Digital Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, is “a series focused on the people who are building, using, and critiquing the digital tools and techniques transforming the humanities.” Episodes feature conversations with different scholars about their projects and the tools they use to complete them. Topics of ...