POST: The Data Sitters Club #19: Shelley and the Bad Corpus

DCS#19 of The Data Sitters Club, a project that applies “digital humanities computational text analysis tools and methods” to a popular book series from the 1990s, looks at the corpus of works that make up the collection. The author of this chapter, “Shelley and the Bad Corpus,” Quinn Dombrowski (Stanford University), worked with Prof. Shelley ...

RESOURCE: Text on Maps Help Guide

Text on Maps has collected pieces of text from 57,000 georeferenced maps from the David Rumsey Map Collection and made them searchable with mapKurator, allowing users to search within the contents of text on maps, rather than just the metadata. From the site: “While library patrons have become used to searching books via their content ...

EVENT: Digital Humanities Virtual Podcasting Workshop Series

The Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University’s Libraries will host a free, virtual, 5-part workshop series on scholarly podcasting. All workshops will be hosted on Zoom, from 10:00 am – 11:00 am, Pacific Time. The workshop dates and descriptions for the semester are: September 29: Why Podcast? October 6: Recording your Podcast October ...

EVENT: Beyond Black Data Reading Group

Join faculty, researchers, and those interested in “exploring ideas around community-based data analytics (CBDA), a collaborative approach to data that involves community members in the collection, management, and analysis of data in their communities” in a reading group throughout the semester. Each meeting will be the last Friday of each month, and will feature the ...

CFP: ACRL Digital Scholarship Section Virtual Professional Development Program

The ACRL Digital Scholarship Section’s Professional Development Committee (PDC) has announced a call for proposals for its 2023 DSS virtual professional development series. The series is a collaboration between the Outreach Committee and the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Committee, and will focus on topics identified from a recent survey of the DSS community. Proposals will ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Utah

The Digital Humanities Utah Executive Committee is currently accepting proposals for the 8th Digital Humanities Utah Symposium (DHU8) to take place February 23-24, 2024. Session formats include panel presentations, complete panels, roundtables, and hands-on workshops, and suggested topics of interest include computational and digital approaches to humanistic research, humanistic examinations of the computational and the ...

CFP: Latin American & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium

From the Call: The University of Florida, the University of North Florida, and Universidad San Francisco de Quito will host their second Latin America & Caribbean Digital Humanities Symposium at Universidad San Francisco Quito in Quito, Ecuador from Thursday, July 4 – Saturday July 6, 2024. This symposium will offer a mix of in-person and virtual sessions.  We seek proposals for papers, posters, and lightning rounds, on any topic related ...

OPPORTUNITY: Early Modern Digital Itineraries

Early Modern Digital Itineraries, or EmDigIt, is looking for participants to attend 3 virtual workshops and 1 in-person conference toward developing a database of traveler itinerary books published between 1500-1750 and will provide a stipend for lodging and travel for the conference, slated for August 2024 at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New ...

JOB: Digital Projects Specialist, George Washington Presidential Library

From the posting: This position will be devoted to working on compelling new projects that the CDH is building. Of primary importance is ARGO: American Revolutionary Geographies Online, an NHPRC-funded multi-institutional historic maps platform spearheaded by the Washington Library and the Norman B Leventhal Map and Education Center at the Boston Public Library. In particular, ...

JOB: Text Mining Specialist, Northeastern

From the posting: Reporting to the Head of Research Data Services, the Text Mining Specialist (salary range $56,835-88,095) works closely and collegially with fellow Research Data Services team members and others inside and outside the library to a) identify existing support and research needs across the University, and b) develop a broad and deep range ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Michigan State University

From the posting: Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries seeks a creative, service-oriented professional to join the Digital Scholarship Lab as the Digital Scholarship Librarian. The ideal candidate values collaboration, inclusivity, and community engagement in digital scholarship efforts and will bring expertise and a learning mindset that will shape a growing, dynamic digital scholarship program at ...