OPPORTUNITY: 2026 ILiADS Liaison Participation

The 2026 Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) is seeking liaisons for the 2026 Institute, held in-person at Vassar College, July 26th-31st, who will offer expertise in a variety of digital scholarship methods to the 2026 participants. From the webpage: Liaisons wear several hats – including project manager, coach, and technical expert – as they ...

RESOURCE: Digital Preservation Coalition Competency Framework

The Digital Preservation Coalition has released version 2 of The DPC Competency Framework that “builds on previous work on identifying competencies for digital preservation and guidance from key models of good practice to provide a framework” that is accessible for professional development, training, and easy access. Like version 2, the original version contained 5 competency areas ...

PROJECT: Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online

Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online is a scholarly platform for introducing concepts, terms, projects, and resources for teaching and working with the art, architecture, and visual culture of Islam. The project was founded in 2020 by a team of researchers and students, lead by Professor of Islamic art at the University of Michigan, Christiane Gruber, ...

CFP: ACH 2025 Panel – “Stuck on the List: Local Approaches to the DH Directory”

A panel for the 2025 annual meeting of the Association for Computers and the Humanities is seeking participants for a virtual panel session during ACH 2025. The panel, “Stuck on the List: Local Approaches to the DH Directory,” organized by Kiran Mohammadi-Williams of Cornell University, proposes to “circulate ideas, questions, and thoughts about various methods ...

RECOMMENDED: ACH Town Halls

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) is holding two Town Hall meetings to  “discuss recent events affecting Digital Humanities” that are “designed to hear your experiences regarding how the recent government actions are affecting your ability to pursue digital humanities, and the steps that ACH can take to support you and your communities.” ...

POST: Vanishing Culture: Punch Card Knitting

In this guest blog post on the Internet Archive by Nichole Misako Nomura (Stanford University), the author shares a brief history of the computational translations of knitting punch cards, starting with how they became proto-versions of code and taking us through the ins and outs of a digitization and preservation workflow. This blog post is ...

POST: How to Lead an Academic Social Network

This open-access article in Public Humanities gives a brief history of HASTAC.org’s inception and growth, with the values of sharing knowledge in a free, open, and ethically minded group of scholars. Cathy N. Davidson (CUNY Graduate Center), the co-founder of HASTAC, writes lessons she learned in the creation and growth of this community of scholars, ...

CFP: DLF Forum 2025

The Digital Library Federation has opened its call for proposals for this year’s annual Forum in Denver Colorado. Proposals can include topics encompassing digital libraries, including: case studies, ‘fail and learn’ opportunities, practical application, methods, projects, ethics, research, and learning in any area, including, but not limited to: Digital humanities Digital scholarship Digital pedagogy Digital ...

JOB: Digital Collections Project Manager (UC Riverside)

From the posting: Under the supervision of the Associate University Librarian for Content & Discovery, the Digital Collections Project Manager will work collaboratively with staff and departments across the library on a variety of projects related to digital collections, digital cultural heritage access, and digital preservation. Provides consulting services, leads and project manages digitization and ...

PROJECT: Digging into Early Colonial Mexico

Digging into Early Colonial Mexico (DECM Project) is an effort to share and analyze datasets of the Relaciones Geográficas de la Nueva España, 16th and 17th century documents that provide insight into indigenous and colonized groups of the Virreinatos, or regions of the early Americas that were being colonized by Spanish viceroys.  The project combines ...

POST: CNI’s Spring 2024 Project Briefings

The Coalition for Networked Information’s (CNI) Spring 2024 Membership Meeting consisted of plenaries and project briefings which are posted and publicly available through their site. These meetings feature various members’ semi-formal presentations on initiatives, projects, and research – both theoretical and practical, such as: “Opening Collections of Marginalized Voices through Crowdfunding and Crowdsourcing,” Michael Levine-Clark, ...