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JOB: Digital Scholarship and Technology Librarian (Governors State)

Nov

30

2023

From the job posting: Governors State University invites qualified candidates to apply for the position of Digital Scholarship and Technology Librarian (DSTL) for our University Library. The Digital Scholarship and Technology Librarian (DSTL) manages library technology services and platforms that support discovery, learning, teaching, and research activities. This position is a strategic amalgamation of data ...

JOB: Data Wrangler [Archaeology] (University of York)

Nov

30

2023

From the posting: Department: Archaeology Salary: £36,024 – £44,263 a year Contract status: Fixed term Hours of work: Full-time Based at: University of York – King’s Manor (with some remote working options available) Interview date: 12 January 2024 Role The role is primarily designed to improve and evolve the current metadata pipelines and processes at ...

RECOMMENDED: Debates in the DH 2023

Nov

16

2023

Debates in the Digital Humanities 2023, a book by Matthew K. Gold (CUNY Graduate Center) and Lauren F. Klein (Emory University) looks at digital humanities in 2023, presenting “a state-of-the-field vision of digital humanities amid rising social, political, economic, and environmental crises; a global pandemic; and the deepening of austerity regimes in U.S. higher education.” ...

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 ...

RESOURCE: Ethics in Linked Data

Nov

16

2023

Ethics in Linked Data, edited by Alexandra Provo (New York University), Kathleen Burlingame (University of Pennsylvania), and B.M. Watson (University of British Columbia), “brings together contributions that explore ethics in linked data initiatives.” The book focuses on the idea that ethics should be at the forefront of consideration when the data is created, pre-existing damage ...

CFP: DHSI-Aligned Conferences

Nov

16

2023

Proposals are currently being accepted for the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) 2024, an aligned conference made up of several related events. The Conference and Colloquium will feature 10-15-minute presentations and 5-minute lightening talks on various digital humanities topics, from a variety of members form the digital humanities community. Project Management in the Humanities on ...

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, ...

JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian (Davidson)

Nov

16

2023

From the Post: In this position, you will: Provide research and design consultation to students, faculty, and staff in their development of research and scholarly projects. Partner with faculty colleagues to offer in-class instruction for topics in the Digital Learning portfolio. Collaborate with team members to research, contextualize, and embed critical digital pedagogy in and ...

JOB: Director of Research Data and Digital Scholarship (University of Pennsylvania)

Nov

16

2023

From the Post: Job Description Responsibilities In collaboration with the AVP for Technology and Digital Initiatives, responsible for the overall vision, planning, development, implementation, advancement, and assessment of research data and digital scholarship services and associated projects of the Center for Research Data and Digital Scholarship. In addition to intensive outreach activities, the Director will ...