The Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) has issued the call for project proposal applications for the 2026 Institute, held in person at Vassar College, July 26th-31st. The Institute invites proposals from digital scholarship teams, as in previous years, and new to this year, proposals from individuals as part of the “Digital Scholarship Incubator, CTRL-ALT-Retreat.” From the call:

The steering committee encourages proposals from teams and individuals in whole or in part new to digital scholarship. We employ an expansive definition of “digital project” that can include topics like infrastructure development and pedagogical practice. Projects of all types, and in any stage, are welcomed. We invite projects led by staff and early career faculty, as well as projects with substantial undergraduate leadership. We especially encourage proposals that include those who are Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and people of color, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and LGBTQ+ people.

Registration costs are $750 per person for faculty/staff, and $250 per person for students. ILiADS housing and food costs are $250 for the week.

Proposal guidelines share a list of headings to include and give examples of successful proposals, which will be accepted until April 3rd. Successful proposals will be notified of their acceptance by May 1st.

The Digital Pedagogy Institute has announced calls for submission to the 2026 DPI, held virtually and with no registration fees. There are 6 “streams” for submitting:

1. Digital Pedagogy and Emerging Technologies: Higher education institutions are navigating the intersection of pedagogy and emerging technologies. How are these innovative technologies reshaping teaching and learning experiences? What are the associated affordances, concerns, and implications?
2. Critical Digital Pedagogy and the Post-Truth society: It is becoming increasingly difficult to tell what is real and what is true. How can Digital Pedagogy help instructors and students to navigate issues related to digital literacy, data ethics, social media influences, etc.? How do we question and challenge dominant beliefs and practices in the field of Digital Pedagogy?
3. Digital (de)colonialism: How have digital pedagogy techniques and tools helped instructors and students address anti-racist and decolonization practices in their curriculum and research? What are the challenges and opportunities? Do you have any best practices to share?
4. Inclusivity, Accessibility, and Digital Pedagogy: Issues related to inclusivity and accessibility are at the forefront of Digital Pedagogy. What barriers have you encountered in your research and practice? How have you resolved them? What barriers remain? This is an opportunity to reflect on and share frameworks and best practices that have helped to reduce pedagogical barriers and integrate digital pedagogy approaches.
5. Sustainability, Renewability, and Environmental Costs in the digital sphere: Digital pedagogy is not immune to environmental critique. There are environmental impacts associated with generating the power and equipment needed to support digital initiatives. How should we reconcile the benefits of digital pedagogy with its environmental costs? Can digital pedagogy proponents be good environmental stewards?

The call for submissions opens on March 2nd, and closes April 13th. Presentations will be 20 minutes, synchronous, and may discuss ongoing research, case studies, reflections, or projects, among other things. Presenters will be notified of their acceptance on June 15th, and will submit their presentation slides by July 31st.

The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) is seeking nominations for 4 awards:

• Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature – “for the best work of electronic literature of any length or genre [and] aims to recognize creative excellence”
• N. Katherine Hayles Award for Criticism of Electronic Literature – “for the best work of criticism, of any length, on the topic of electronic literature [and] recognizes excellence in the field”
• Marjorie C. Luesebrink Career Achievement Award – “honors a visionary artist and/or scholar who has brought excellence to the field of electronic literature and has inspired others to help create and build the field.”
• The Maverick Award – “honors an independent spirit: a writer, artist, researcher, programmer, designer, performer, or hybrid creator who does not adhere to a conventional path but creates their own and in so doing makes a singular contribution to the field of electronic literature.”

The deadline for nominations is March 9th, and awards will be given during the 2026 ELO Conference, hosted virtually by the University of Central Florida in July.

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 shepherd teams from project acceptance in the spring through the week of the summer institute. They’ll be in contact with teams before the institute to help them prepare and will attend ILiADS events with their team during the week.

Training for selected liaisons will be held before the institute, and full liaisons will receive a $600 stipend, in addition to free room and board during the in-person Institute. To be added to the liaison pool, applicants must fill out the online form by April 3rd.

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 and 28 subsequent skill elements. The DPC Competency Audit Toolkit, a companion document to the framework, also includes a skill-level assessment and an organizational audit to help people getting started.

With the update of the competencies, the DPC has also launched the Learning Resources Portal to provide training resources. The Portal, which is searchable by keyword, skills, roles, and competencies, is also seeking contributions through its GitHub page.

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, but has continued to grow in content and pedagogical offerings since. In addition to teaching resources (worksheets, lesson plans, glossaries, etc.) and off-shoot projects that engage with the project’s content, the platform is free and open-access, providing examples for scholarship and teaching. From the project’s homepage:

Besides aiding educators, curators, librarians, and other professionals to create dynamic and interactive learning environments through our roster of talks, pedagogical resources, and translations, Khamseen‘s mission is to help all individuals learn more about Islamic art in general. Over the last three years, our pages have been viewed from all over the world over a quarter of a million times. Propelled by a shared vision, Team Khamseen is dedicated to expanding and enriching our content and, above all, to building bridges across cultures through the arts.

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 for creating a directory/directories of digital humanities projects and tools at the local level from those working directly on these projects.”

The call seeks 3-4 participants, pending acceptance to the conference, and asks for responses to the form by Saturday, April 5, 2025.

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.” These meetings are online, and guiding questions are included on the online announcement.

The meetings are Wednesday, March 19 and Friday, March 21. Both are free to attend, but registration is required.

In addition to gathering information for advocacy efforts, the ACH also invites participation in a survey on NEH Funding Impacts, which is open.

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 recommended for those interested in binary or minimalist code, material culture, history of machines, or hints of data feminism.

From the post:

The knitting machines I own share their punch card dimensions (24 stitches wide) with one of the first punch cards (the Hollerith card, used for the 1890 census, was a 24-column punch card). They’re an important piece of computing history—and crucially, one of the few that isn’t only history because a broad community of people, on- and off-line, are still sharing knowledge on how to hack, restore, and use them.

All punch cards are fundamentally digital, even if we don’t generally think of “digital” as a property physical objects can have. It is only recently that our associations of computing with “the cloud” and other ephemeral metaphors have superseded the fundamentally physical processes that support computation. Working with knitting machine punch cards reminds me that the cloud is a metaphor, and lets me own and manipulate my code in a way I find both challenging and creatively liberating.

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, practitioners, students, and theoretically, anyone with an internet connection.

From the abstract:

Before Wikipedia, Facebook, or Twitter (now X), HASTAC created an open-access, public network with the purpose of making full use of evolving affordances of technology while also critiquing and seeking to improve issues of access, ethics, gender and racial bias, and social and environmental impact. This essay details what it takes to lead and sustain a dues-free, participatory social network with community standards and collaborative decision-making, and where any network member is invited to blog, post, start dialogues, and lead research initiatives, across institutional and other boundaries.

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 collections and DAMS
  • Digitization, digital preservation, or reformatting analog to digital format(s)
  • Born-digital materials
  • Data curation
  • Data access
  • Art information
  • Community archives
  • Machine learning / artificial intelligence
  • Project management
  • Partnerships, advocacy, and outreach
  • Race and technology
  • Accessibility
  • Copyright
  • Assessment
  • Climate change
  • Open access
  • Library-based publishing
  • Future of higher education

The 2025 DLF Forum will include opportunities to propose a 3-hour workshop for Learn@DLF on November 16, or 45-minute workshops, working sessions, panels, presentation, and lightning talks at the DLF Forum on November 17-19. All events will be in-person.

The deadline for submitting a proposal is April 14, 2025.