Digital Humanities Quarterly has released a call for proposals for a special issue of the journal, highlighting digital humanities work in French. According to this CFP, this issue “is the second of several planned for DHQ in different languages or regional traditions,” following DHQ‘s call for submissions for a Spanish-language special issue last fall. Submissions ...

Small Axe Project (Columbia University) has issued a call for papers for The Caribbean Digital III, to be held 2 December 2016 at Barnard College / Columbia University. Suggestion submission topics include: the transatlantic, collaborative, and/or interdisciplinary possibilities and limitations of digital technologies in the Caribbean metaphorical linkages between the digital and such Caribbean philosophical, ...

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) issued calls for proposals for the 2016 DLF Forum, the DLF Liberal Arts Pre-Conference and the Digital Preservation 2016 and the annual conference of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) in this central site. The Forum traditionally has no set theme so that it may speak to matters of interest ...

The Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (RBMS) is offering a workshop as part of their annual preconference titled “Digital Humanities is What You Can Do with It: Going Beyond Digitization in Special Collections.” Led by Suzan Alteri, Chelsea Dinsmore, Richard Freeman, Jessica Marcetti, Daniel Reboussin, Laurie Taylor (University of Florida, Gainesville). By adding value to digital ...

The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) extended its conference proposal deadline to April 17, 2016 with notifications sent on May 2, 2016. The organizers welcome posters+lightning talk, demonstrations + lightning talk, presentations, and panel presentations. Areas of interest include: Archiving (events) Big data Classification, clustering Client/proxy/server side collecting Crawling (focused) Curation, quality control Databases ...

Bucknell University announced its annual digital scholarship conference, taking place on October 28-30, 2016, with the theme: “Negotiating Borders through Digital Collaboration.” The organizers invite “proposals that explore or critique digital modes of scholarly, cultural, and political intersectionality. Special consideration will be given to proposals that demonstrate how crossing institutional boundaries, whether within or beyond the university, can facilitate ...

The fourth Digging into Data Challenge has been announced, featuring “expanded international funding and opportunities” for the international competition. This year, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) joins a consortium of international funders from Europe, North America, and South America to support “research projects that use ‘big data’ sources and methodologies to address ...

A call for papers for Digital Humanities Congress 2016, to be held at the University of Sheffield, September 8-10, has been issued. The conferences will be hosted by the University of Sheffield’s Humanities Research Institute, with the support of centerNet. Organizers welcome papers, sessions, and posters on “all aspects of the digital humanities,” providing some ...

The organizers of “Building Capacity with Care: Graduate Students and DH Work in Libraries,” a pre-conference workshop at the Digital Humanities 2016 conference (Kraków, 12-16 July 2016), have issued a call for participation. Led by workshop instructors Alan Pike (Emory University), Dawn Childress (University of California, Los Angeles), Smiljana Antonijevć (Pennsylvania State University), Jim McGrath (Brown ...

Voting for the 2015 round of Digital Humanities Awards: Highlighting Resources in Digital Humanities opened this week. Participants can vote for their favorite projects and pieces in four categories: Best use of DH for Fun, Best DH Tool of Suite of Tools, Best Blog Post or Series of Posts, Best DH Data Visualization, and Best Use DH ...