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RECOMMENDED: Modeling Doubt: A Speculative Syllabus

Feb

22

2024

Shannon Mattern (University of Pennsylvania) has published an open-access piece in the Journal of Visual Culture titled “Modeling doubt: a speculative syllabus.” Adapted from Mattern’s May 2023 King’s Public Lecture in Digital Humanities at King’s College London, the piece explores “where humanistic conceptions of doubt do, or could or should, reside within our digital systems: ...

RESOURCE: AI for Humanists Tutorials

Feb

22

2024

The collaborative, NEH-funded AI for Humanists project (formerly the BERT for Humanists project) creates learning resources aimed at empowering humanities scholars to use machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs) in creative new ways. Adding to its repository of tutorials, primarily for python coding, two new tutorials have recently been published ...

RECOMMENDED: Large Language Models and Academic Writing

Feb

8

2024

The South African Journal of Science recently published an article by Martin Bekker (University of the Witwatersrand) that explores a tiered model for assessing academic authors’ engagement with large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI’s ChatGPT. “Large language models and academic writing: Five tiers of engagement” offers guidance for academic journal editors, university instructors and curriculum ...

EVENT: Queer and Trans Art as Knowledge Mobilization

Feb

8

2024

The University of Toronto’s Critical Digital Humanities Initiative hosts a Lightning Lunch series on Zoom. Coming up on Wednesday, February 14, at 12:00pm EST, speakers Cait McKinney (Simon Fraser University), Chris Vargas (Western Washington University), and Dallas Fellini (University of Toronto) will share their work in a discussion titled “Queer & Trans Art as Knowledge ...

CFP: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 2024

Feb

8

2024

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the in-person 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held in partnership with Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU College of Arts and Letters in East Lansing, Michigan, July 29-31, 2024. Office hours will be held on February 15 (register here) for prospective presenters to learn more ...

CFP: Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2024

Feb

8

2024

The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the seventh annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship which will be hosted in person, July 14-19, 2024, by Pitts Theology Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Collaborative digital project teams are invited to submit proposals to participate in the week-long summer institute. From the call: ILiADS ...

CFP: Keystone DH 2024 Conference

Feb

8

2024

UPDATE: The deadline has been extended to Friday, March 8. Keystone DH — a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic — has announced that the annual Keystone DH conference will be hosted in-person by the DIGIT program at Penn State Erie, The ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Civic Switchboard Institutes

Feb

8

2024

With the support of IMLS funding, Civic Switchboard aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems. The project team has announced a series of institutes taking place throughout 2024 that may be of interest to library workers engaged with digital research support and data literacy instruction. From the announcement: ...

RECOMMENDED: Towards Responsible Publishing: cOAlition S Proposal and Survey

Nov

16

2023

From cOAlition S, the funded initiative to make full and immediate Open Access publication of research a reality, comes a new draft proposal titled “Towards Responsible Publishing,” which outlines “a vision and a set of principles that a future scholarly communication system should aspire to, along with a mission that enables research funders…to deliver this.” ...

POST: AI Will Lead Us to Need More Garbage-subtraction

Nov

16

2023

Todd Carpenter, Executive Director of NISO, writes for The Scholarly Kitchen, “AI Will Lead Us to Need More Garbage-subtraction.” Amid a flurry of recent articles in LIS journals and higher education blogs on concerns about generative AI and large language models (LLMs) being trained on non-transparent, highly biased swaths of data culled from across the ...

POST: Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species 2023

Nov

16

2023

On World Digital Preservation Day (November 2), the Digital Preservation Coalition released the 2023 edition of the “Global ‘Bit List’ of Endangered Digital Species” – an open, community-created resource listing the most at-risk digital materials. The list this year consists of 87 entries, with new entries including “First Nations Secret/Sacred Cultural Material.” From the post ...