The University of Rochester River Campus Libraries is accepting applications for 21st Century Skills: Digital Humanities Institute for Mid-Career Librarians in July 2015. The institute “consists of a three-day residential experience for 20 mid-career librarians, followed by one year of online engagement and support. The instruction team includes four CLIR fellows, supported by University of Rochester ...

Ted Westervelt (Library of Congress) has written a post about the Library of Congress’ new Recommended Format Specifications. These specifications provide resources for libraries and librarians about how to select content that has the greatest chance of long term preservation and access. It is not merely the Library of Congress which might benefit from something like ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Division of Preservation and Access is accepting applications for Research and Development grants. The grants support “projects that address major challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities collections and resources,” specifically ones that “demonstrate how advances in preservation and access would benefit the cultural heritage community in ...

The International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (IJHAC) has announced a call for submissions to its 10th anniversary special edition, “Future of Digital Methods for Complex Datasets.” Edited by Jennifer Giuliano and Mia Ridge, the collection invites chapters that address: In an environment where resources for humanities education are reduced, how might the decline ...

The Black Scholar is seeking abstracts for a special issue on Black Code Studies. Topics include but are not limited to Online/Hashtag Activism Black and Radical Womyn of Color Feminisms #BlackLivesMatter Games and Nerds of Color Black Codes and Race Codes Afrofuturism/Speculative Fiction Digital Black Studies and Pedagogy Radical Media Reviews of Digital Projects/Media Hacking ...

The DHCommons journal has announced a new section “dedicated to procedural descriptions of how to launch and/or maintain an exemplary aspect of a stable digital project,” which will be edited by Thomas Padilla (Michigan State University Libraries). The journal seeks submissions of 600-1000 words that will be peer-reviewed and published alongside an interview with the author ...

The University of California, Los Angeles will host an eight-day summer institute that will teach participants “about debates and key concepts in the digital humanities and gain hands-on experience with tools and techniques for art historical research…More fundamentally, the Institute will be an opportunity for participants to imagine what digital art history can be.”  The ...

The recently-formed journal Social Media + Society is currently seeking submissions. Social Media + Society is “an online, open-access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal deeply committed to advancing the understanding of social media and its impact on societies past, present and future.” The journal publishes the following types of articles: Original research articles. Double-blind, double peer-reviewed articles. Social ...

The International Conference on Open Repositories will hold its tenth conference from 8-11 June 2015 in Indianapolis, Indiana. The program theme is “Looking Back, Moving Forward: Open Repositories at the Crossroads”: The organizers invite you to review the full call for proposals here: http://www.or2015.net/call-for-proposals/, and to submit your proposal here: https://www.conftool.com/or2015/ by January 30, 2015. There are ...

The second annual Texas Digital Humanities Conference has issued a call for papers for its second annual conference, to be held April 9-11, 2015, in Arlington, Texas. As the call specifies: “This conference encourages submissions from a broad spectrum of communities: university and K-12 educators, graduate students, and undergrads; museum and archives professionals; library professionals; ...