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CFP: Connections: A Journal of Language, Media and Culture

Apr

15

2021

The interdisciplinary open access journal, Connections: A Journal of Language, Media and Culture, seeks submissions for its second issue centered on theme of “building bridges: maintaining connections found at the heart of cultural, multimedia, textual, or language-based interactions in times of crisis.” From the call: The journal welcomes original research manuscripts and creative works in ...

EVENT: Building A Transatlantic Digital Scholarship and Data Skills Exchange

Apr

15

2021

Research Libraries UK’s Digital Scholarship Network (RLUK DSN) and the Digital Library Federation’s Data and Digital Scholarship Working Group (DLFdds) are hosting an interactive event to explore shared interests between the US and UK research libraries in relation to digital scholarship and skills development, towards “building a transatlantic digital scholarship and data skills exchange.” From ...

EVENT: Everything is Data Except When It’s Not: AI, the Library, and Digital Research Practices

Apr

15

2021

The University of Colorado’s Museum of Natural History, University Libraries, and Research Computing are hosting a “Curating the Campus” speaker series, exploring how digital cultural heritage collections can contribute to campus research and teaching missions as well as engagement of broad audiences. Part Three includes, “Everything is Data Except When It’s Not: AI, the Library, ...

POST: Why Open Access definitions are confusing

Apr

9

2021

Aaron Tay (Singapore Management University) has authored a post, “Why Open Access definitions are confusing,” on his blog. Tay lays out areas of Open Access (OA) that he has found confusing personally, in the hopes of elucidating others: Rather, as open access categories start to get more nuanced and granular, our attempts to force open ...

EVENT: Day of DH 2021

Apr

9

2021

This year’s Day of DH (#dayofdh2021) will be held on April 29. Organized by Loyola University Chicago and UCLA in USA, University of Guelph in Canada, and Università del Piedmont Orientale in Italy, this year’s theme is multilingual DH, intended “to open up conversation about projects being undertaken in the various languages and put together ...

EVENT: Open Humanities Data Forum

Apr

9

2021

As part of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 17th Plenary Meeting, there will be free virtual event about humanities data. Scheduled for April 23 from 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm UCT, the Open Humanities Data Forum will focus on the Journal of Open Humanities Data, with an emphasis on linguistics data. From the announcement: What counts ...

CFP: 2021 DLF Forum, DigiPres, and Learn@DLF Calls for Proposals

Apr

9

2021

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) announces multiple calls for proposals for 2021 virtual events: DLF Forum (November 1-3), NDSA’s Digital Preservation 2021: Embracing Digitality (November 4), and Learn@DLF (November 8-10). From the call: Based on community feedback, we’ve made the decision to take our events online again in 2021. We look forward to new and ...

JOB: Associate Director of Digital Curation and Distinctive Collections (Barry University)

Apr

9

2021

From the announcement: Senior leadership role that expands on the traditional portfolio of an Archivist through vision and support roles in planning, implementing, and managing an active, comprehensive scholarship services program that meets the instructional and research needs of the campus. Specifically, the associate director of DCDC strategically grows the library’s research support role in ...

JOB: Digitization Archivist (John F. Kennedy Library Foundation)

Apr

9

2021

From the announcement: Project Background The archival collections at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library (papers, oral histories, photographs, sound recordings, and moving image materials) are owned and administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). In 2005, the Kennedy Library and NARA leadership partnered with the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation to develop ...

POST: Stay “in the loop” with LC Labs experiment combining crowdsourcing and machine learning

Apr

1

2021

Eileen Jakeway (Library of Congress) has authored a post for Library of Congress’ The Signal blog, on the “Humans in the Loop” experiment run by LC Labs. Jakeway’s post, “Stay ‘in the loop’ with LC Labs experiment combining crowdsourcing and machine learning,” covers the recent history of LC’s involvement with and experiments in “responsibly combin[ing] ...

RESOURCE: Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections

Apr

1

2021

OCLC Research has released a report, “Total Cost of Stewardship: Responsible Collection Building in Archives and Special Collections,” authored by Chela Scott Weber (OCLC Research), Martha O’Hara Conway (University of Michigan), Nicholas Martin (NYU), Gioia Stevens (NYU), and Brigette Kamsler (George Washington University). From the report description: Developed by the OCLC Research Library Partnership’s (RLP) ...