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CFP: Interactive Film and Media Conference 2024

Nov

16

2023

The Interactive Film and Media Journal has shared a call for proposals for the virtual IFM 2024 Conference: “Communities, Structures, Entanglements,” to be held June 12-14, 2024, via Zoom. From the call: The 6th Interactive Film and Media Virtual Conference (June 12-14, 2024) invites academics (faculty, researchers, and Ph.D. students) from all disciplines (media, communication, ...

RECOMMENDED: Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Data

Nov

3

2023

A recently published paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data titled “Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Data” explores the complexities of datasets created from digital cultural heritage collections, with the purpose of providing recommended standards for documenting these datasets. Their interest in better describing these kinds of datasets relates primarily to the Collections as ...

PROJECT: Virtual Viking Longship Project

Nov

3

2023

An interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students, library workers, and faculty from Carleton College and Grinnell College are using 3D modeling and VR technology to explore the social and cultural roles of Viking longships, in collaboration with museum professionals from the Viking Museum Haithabu and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. The Virtual Viking ...

CFP: Digital Humanities 2024

Nov

3

2023

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has posted a call for proposals for Digital Humanities 2024: “Reinvention and Responsibility.” The DH2024 conference will be held August 6-9, 2024, at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, USA. From the call: Reinvention is a call to act with creativity, compassion, and intentionality to better meet the ...

POST: The Digital Campaigns Project

Mar

23

2023

Writing for the Archive-It blog, Joshua Meyer-Gutbrod (University of South Carolina, Department of Political Science) describes the context and creation of the Digital Campaigns Project, a database of U.S. state legislative campaign websites from 2016-2022 that enables researchers to examine variation in state partisan agendas and rhetoric. The project, initially begun in 2016, is led ...

RESOURCE: (In)Accessibility and the Technocratic Library

Mar

23

2023

The most recent special issue of First Monday, the online open-access journal devoted to studies of the Internet, is entitled “This feature has been disabled: Critical intersections of disability and information studies.” One contribution to this special issue, “(In)accessibility and the technocratic library: Addressing institutional failures in library adoption of emerging technologies,” focuses on the ...

EVENT: DHSI 2023

Mar

23

2023

Registration is now available for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2023 at the University of Victoria. The theme for 2023 is “A Place for Open Scholarship.” DHSI takes place June 5-9 on-campus and June 12-16 online. From the registration page: After several years of adjusting in-person plans and three successful years of online editions, we ...

EVENT: Data4Justice Conference 2023

Mar

23

2023

Registration is open for the Data4Justice Conference 2023. Held online Friday, April 28, 2023, this event features a keynote by Elie Mystal, the Justice Correspondent for The Nation, author, and legal contributor to the More Perfect podcast on WNYC. Other presentations include: The Small town police accountability (STOPA) toolkit and research lab The Stopping trafficking ...

JOB: Digital Engagement Librarian, York University

Mar

23

2023

From the announcement: York University Libraries (YUL) seeks a collaborative and innovative individual with strong leadership capacity for the position of Digital Engagement Librarian located at the Markham Centre Campus Library. This is a continuing appointment position with a focus on advancing and disseminating digitally-mediated scholarly research at York University with a multi-disciplinary, inclusive, and community-engaged ...

JOB: Digital Initiatives Librarian, University of Idaho

Mar

23

2023

From the announcement: The University of Idaho Library seeks an innovative, flexible, and highly collaborative librarian who will help promote, develop, and maintain the digital services and projects of the library and the relationships that make these services and projects possible. Reporting to the Dean, this position will work within the Digital Scholarship and Open ...

POST: Fight for the Future Statement on Libraries’ Digital Rights

Mar

9

2023

Fight for the Future, a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists, published a statement about the ongoing lawsuit against the Internet Archive’s digital library. Oral arguments are scheduled for March 20, 2023 in this suit brought by four major publishers. The post quotes Lia Holland (they/she), Campaigns and Communications Director at Fight for the Future: ...