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CFP: DH Scholarship from the Viewpoint of Women and Gender Minorities

Oct

17

2019

As part of the proceedings for the “Women and Gender Minorities in DH” conference held at Stanford University in May 2019, the organizers invite “love letters” to DH projects and ideas. From the call: If you identify as a woman and gender minority working in DH anywhere in the world, you are invited to contribute ...

OPPORTUNITY: Building Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining

Oct

17

2019

UC Berkeley is hosting a four-day institute this summer: Building LLTDM: Legal Literacies for Text Data Mining (#BuildingLLTDM). To be held June 23-26, 2020, this NEH-funded event seeks to “empower digital humanities researchers and professionals to be able to confidently navigate law, policy, ethics, and risk within digital humanities text data mining projects — so ...

OPPORTUNITY: Archives Unleashed Datathon

Oct

17

2019

Archives Unleashed, an Andrew W. Mellon funded initiative which aims make petabytes of historical internet content accessible researchers, has announced its fourth datathon to take place 26-27 March 2020. From the call for participation: The World Wide Web has had a profound impact on how we research and understand the past. The sheer amount of ...

JOB: Head, Digital Strategy & Technology, and Digital Initiatives Librarian (University of Guelph)

Oct

17

2019

From the announcement: The McLaughlin Library at the University of Guelph invites applications for a dynamic, creative, collaborative librarian to fill the newly established position of head, Digital Strategy & Technology (DS&T), and digital initiatives librarian. This senior leadership position reports to the Associate University Librarian, Research, and is a member of the library’s management ...

RECOMMENDED: Manifesto: A Life on the Hyphen

Sep

12

2019

In their new article in Digital Humanities Quarterly Hélène Huet, Suzan Alteri, and Laurie N. Taylor from the University of Florida reflect on the challenges of engaging in “invisible work and life on the hyphen — between the academy and the library and between the human and the digital.” “Manifesto: A Life on the Hyphen: Balancing ...

POST: OCR Now Available in the National Archives Catalog

Sep

12

2019

The National Archives has announced the addition of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) search capabilities to its online catalog. Until now, the catalog was only searchable by a few metadata fields — including title and description — or crowdsourced tags and transcriptions. OCR functionality will improve search across millions of pages, and potentially make findable some ...

POST: Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain

Sep

12

2019

This Motherboard post by Karl Bode details efforts of archivists, activists, and libraries to vastly expand the number public domain books that are being digitized, with particular emphasis on books published between 1923 and 1964. “As it currently stands, all books published in the U.S. before 1924 are in the public domain, meaning they’re publicly ...

EVENT: Digital Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges – Registration Open

Sep

12

2019

Hosted by the University at Albany, University Libraries and Binghamton University Libraries, Digital Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges is a one-day conference that will bring together scholars interested in exploring all aspects of digital scholarship. The conference will showcase new and important digital research projects, explore the potential of new and emerging trends in digital scholarship ...

CFP: Digital Initiatives Symposium 2020

Sep

12

2019

University of San Diego’s Copley Library has announced its call for proposals for the Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium on April 27-28, 2020. Organizers welcome proposals from a wide variety of organizations, including colleges and universities of all sizes, community colleges, public libraries, special libraries, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. They are especially interested ...

JOB: Digital Production Manager (University of California, Davis)

Sep

12

2019

From the announcement: Under general direction of the Library’s Director of Online Strategy, assist in the development of strategy and the execution of digital programs that drive innovation and enable the UC Davis Library to engage with faculty, students, and external communities. Responsible for providing advice and input for launching internally sponsored projects that may ...

POST: Possibilities for Digital Humanities at Community Colleges

Apr

4

2019

Lisa Spiro (executive director of Digital Scholarship Services at Rice University’s Fondren Library) has posted the slides of a recent talk delivered at Houston Community College’s Spring 2019 English & Humanities Colloquium on “The Digital Classroom: Humanities, Literature & Composition.” “Possibilities for Digital Humanities at Community Colleges,” built on Dr. Anne McGrail’s work on DH and community ...