Researchers in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University seek participants for an online survey “on users’ expectations for searching, interpreting, and trusting digitised and born-digital archives in the age of generative AI.” From the call for participants:

The purpose of this study is to gain information relating to how the growing use of generative AI tools, including ChatGPT, is reshaping user practices and expectations in relation to searching, discovering, and interpreting digitised and born-digital archival records. The study aims to explore how users engage with archival materials, how issues such as provenance, context, transparency, and trust are understood in AI-mediated environments, and what opportunities and challenges users perceive in AI-supported archival access.

This study is part of a research project supported by Loughborough University. The study is undertaken by Dr Lingjia Zhao and Dr Matthew Kidd, and led by Professor Lise Jaillant (Responsible Investigator).

will be asked to complete an anonymous online survey, which should take no longer than 15 minutes to complete. You do not need to do anything before completing the survey. This is a low risk activity and no disadvantages or risks have been identified in association with participating.

You must be over the age of 18 and have the capacity to fully understand and consent to this research. You should also have experience working with digitised and/or born-digital data in a research or professional capacity. This may include, but is not limited to, students and researchers in higher education, archivists and other professionals working in galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM), journalists, and professionals working with public-sector or government records.

Digital humanities library workers could bring unique perspectives to this study, particularly those who work at the intersection of digital archival collections and emerging technologies.

The project team for Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities Database seeks user feedback on the beta version of their interactive database and visualizations. Mapping BDPH users are invited to complete a brief anonymous survey to “be used solely for the purpose of internal project improvement and development.”

The Mapping the Black Digital and Public Humanities database is a project created at James Madison University consisting of maps, visualizations, and a searchable database of black digital and public humanities projects. Stemming out of work on their project, Celebrating Simms, and inspired by the Colored Convention Project’s Black Digital Humanities Projects and Resources Google Doc and the Reviews in Digital Humanities journal’s project registry, Mapping BDPH is a partnership between JMU Libraries and graduate students to track, map, and visualize a broad range of Black digital and public humanities projects. The resulting beta project “is meant to be as much an invitation for others to participate in the ongoing development of this project to map the Black digital and public humanities as it is an early demonstration of what we hope this work can achieve.”

The Implementing New Knowledge Environment (INKE) invites people who have taken part in a digital humanities or digital skills workshop in the last five years (2019-2023) as a learner, instructor, and/or organizer to participate in a survey about Digital Humanities/Digital Skills Workshops. From the survey instrument:

If you HAVE ATTENDED, TAUGHT, and/or ORGANIZED digital humanities/digital skills workshops, in person or online, between the years 2019-2023, we want to hear from you! We’ll ask you to provide feedback about your experiences, including benefits and/or challenges, and your opinions on these workshops, as well as your thoughts on future workshops.

If you have NOT ATTENDED, TAUGHT, or ORGANIZED workshops between 2019-2023 (or ever!), we still want to hear from you! We will ask you to provide feedback about factors that may have impacted your decisions not to participate in the past and about your thoughts on future workshops.

The survey should take no more than 20 minutes, depending on your responses and interests. This research has been approved by the ethics boards at the Universities of Ottawa, Guelph, and Victoria. This survey is supported by the Integrating New Knowledge Environments partnership (INKE.ca, PI Ray Siemens, University of Victoria) and The Canadian Certificate in Digital Humanities/Certificat canadien en Humanités Numériques (cc:DH/HN).

The survey is headed by Bridget Moynihan (University of Ottawa) in collaboration with Kelly Hughes (University of Guelph). The survey is supervised by Laura Estill (St. Francis Xavier University), Kim Martin (University of Guelph), Susan Brown (University of Guelph), and Constance Crompton (University of Ottawa). Questions for the research team can be directed to bmoyniha@uottawa.ca.

Definitions
We use the following terms in this survey:

• Workshops: Training that occurs outside of specific degree or diploma programs. The workshops can take place online or in person. They can happen on campuses, in public libraries, at conferences, at dedicated institute events, or elsewhere. They can be as short as an hour or take place over multiple weeks.
• Digital Humanities Workshops: Any workshop that was described by the organizers/instructors as a digital humanities workshop, whether it was teaching strictly technical skills or skills that support digital humanities work, such as project management.
• Digital Skills Workshops: Workshops that are not labeled as digital humanities specifically, but teach digital skills and contribute to digital humanities practices.

Before work begins on Wax 2.0, Marii Nyrop and Alex Gil are looking to learn from the community about what has worked, what hasn’t, what would be great to have. They have prepared a survey (and an optional follow up) to help gather feedback. You can also share your own Wax site using their other form.

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This post was produced through a cooperation between Pamella Lach, John Russell, and Claudia Berger (Editors for the month), Caitlin Christian-Lamb, Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara, Linsey Ford, Hillary Richardson, and Rachel Starry (dh+lib Review Editors).

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Digital humanities/digital scholarship librarians and staff are invited to participate in a brief online survey about digital preservation practices at digital scholarship centers (including digital humanities centers) in the United States. This survey is primarily multiple-choice, and we anticipate it will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.

Barrie Howard (Library of Congress) has written a post inviting participation in the 2014 Digital Preservation Outreach and Education (DPOE) Training Needs Assessment Survey.

The DPOE Program of the Library of Congress is concerned with “building a collaborative network of instructors and partners to provide training to individuals and organizations seeking to preserve their digital content.” The survey aims “to scan the information sector to get a sense of the state of digital preservation practice, and identify the capacity of organizations and professionals to effectively preserve digital content.” Results will inform future developments in the curriculum and training modules of the program.

Lib Pub, a new group blog on library publishing, launched in January 2013. As blog founder Melanie Schlosser, the Digital Publishing Librarian at Ohio State University Libraries, writes in an introductory post:

“Publishing efforts in libraries are becoming more and more common, but there aren’t yet a lot of venues for those involved to come together and share their thoughts and experiences. The Lib Pub is meant to be one.”

This week, Schlosser issued a call for those whose work involves both DH and library publishing to contact her. She writes:

“I’m curious about how many  of you have both publishing and DH in your job description, or have a humanities focus in your publishing program, or work with a DH center in some way.”

 

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION!

If you work in a library and have any experience with text encoding projects, from web development to project management, please consider participating in a new survey, available here.

Completing the survey should take no more than 30 minutes, and will help academic libraries develop strategic initiatives based on current practice.

From the announcement:

Following on papers, presentations and discussions that resulted from the theme of the 2009 Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium, “Text Encoding in the Era of Mass Digitization,” the launch of the AccessTEI program in 2010, and the recent release of the “Best Practices for TEI in Libraries” in 2011, it behooves us—stewards of text encoding initiatives in academic libraries—to better understand if and how text encoding practices have changed as a result of mass digitization by Google, declining budgets, and an increased emphasis on streamlined digital library services in support of speedier and more voluminous online content production and publishing.

The study is being conducted by Michelle Dalmau, Digital Projects and Usability Librarian for the Indiana University Digital Library Program, and Kevin Hawkins, Head of Publishing Production for MPublishing, University of Michigan Library.

Roxanne Shirazi

Roxanne is the Dissertation Research Librarian at the Graduate Center, CUNY.

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