Pamella Lach ← dh+lib ← Page 4

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Digital Ethnic Futures Grants

Dec

15

2023

The Digital Ethnic Futures Consortium (DEFCon) announces the call for proposals for its third round of grants. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, these grants are designed to support faculty and librarians at public colleges and universities (excluding R1s) to support course and curriculum development. There are three categories of grants available: DEFCon Teaching ...

RECOMMENDED: Teaching DH on a Shoestring: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy

Oct

19

2023

Danica Savonick (SUNY Cortland) published “Teaching DH on a Shoestring: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy” in the December 2022 issue (no 21) of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. This was a themed issue dedicated to Open Educational Resources and hosted on Manifold. From the abstract: This article explores minimalist digital humanities pedagogy: strategies for ...

EVENT: DH Office Hours: Lightning Talks Fall 2023

Oct

19

2023

Northeastern University’s Digital Scholarship Group and NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks are hosting a set of virtual lightning talks on November 1 at 12–1pm Eastern, 9–10am Pacific, 4–5pm Greenwich Mean Time: The panel will feature lightning talks by: Brian Ball—Philosophy, Northeastern University London—on the Simulating Epistemic Injustice project Tieanna Graphenreed—English—on THE BROWNIES’ BOOK: Mapping ...

EVENT: World Digital Preservation Day

Oct

19

2023

World Digital Preservation Day is Tuesday, November 2 ,2023. The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) “invites all data creators, archivists, curators, community members and digipres folk from around the world to celebrate digital preservation by participating in a whole day dedicated to all of the benefits and opportunities enabled by the hard work of our dynamic ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Quarterly Community Event

Oct

19

2023

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is hosting a virtual community event on Friday, November 3rd from 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm (EST): The DHQ editorial team will present on a series of new initiatives the journal has accomplished and introduce exciting updates on our site re-design. We look forward to bringing together the DHQ community of readers, authors, ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Florida State University

Oct

19

2023

From the posting: Florida State University (FSU) Libraries seeks a highly motivated, innovative, and collegial librarian for the position of Digital Humanities Librarian. Responsibilities Directly engage with faculty, students, and staff by providing consultations, instruction, online guides, and other support services related to research methodology, technical applications, and other aspects of digital humanities research Evaluate ...

JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, University of Oklahoma

Oct

19

2023

From the posting: The University of Oklahoma Libraries is seeking a collaborative, detail-oriented individual to join our team as the Digital Projects Librarian. Working in the Bizzell Memorial Library, within the Digital Strategies and Innovation Division, this position reports to the Director of Digital Scholarship and Data Services. The successful candidate will be joining a ...

JOB: Metadata Consultant for the Humanities, Virginia Tech

Oct

19

2023

From the posting: The University Libraries at Virginia Tech seeks a full-time Metadata Consultant for the Humanities to serve as a library metadata expert for publishing and digital humanities work. This position will have a dual reporting line to the Coordinator of Metadata Technologies within the Metadata Services Unit (70% time), and to the Interim ...

RESOURCE: Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings

Oct

5

2023

The Programming Historian recently published a new lesson, Clustering and Visualising Documents using Word Embeddings. Developed by Jonathan Reades and Jennie Williams, this lesson “uses word embeddings and clustering algorithms in Python to identify groups of similar documents in a corpus of approximately 9,000 academic abstracts. It will teach you the basics of dimensionality reduction ...

RESOURCE: Digital Humanities Community Bluesky Invite Codes

Oct

5

2023

Given the ongoing deterioration of Twitter as a viable space for the sharing of digital humanities work, the Association for Computers and the Humanities has begun exploring alternatives. Bluesky social has the makings of a viable alternative, but it requires an invitation to join. This form was created to facilitate the sharing of these invitation ...

CFP: Comics as Computation

Oct

5

2023

Ilan Manouach (FNRS, ULiège) & Benoît Crucifix (KU Leuven, KBR) announce a call for submissions to Comics as Computation: An uninterrupted thread of operational intensity. From the call for proposals: This collective volume aims to provide a historical understanding of the intensification of automation in the comics industry, leading to today’s integration of algorithmic tools ...