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RESOURCE: The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook

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Spearheaded by Scott Weingart through a five-year A.W. Mellon Foundation grant, Carnegie Mellon University has created The Digital Humanities Literacy Guidebook, with information on various aspects of Digital Humanities. CMU described the resource as “your slim guidebook into this world, like the tourist map they give you when you check in at a hotel.” Contents ...

CFP: Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference

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2019

CT DH is now accepting proposals for the Connecticut Digital Humanities Conference, which will take place on February 28-29, 2020 at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. From the call: CT DH endeavors to bring to together a network of DH practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the New ...

CFP: 2020 Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium

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2019

The 2020 Gender and Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium invites you to participate in a conversation on Technologies and Race, Gender, Sexuality, and the Body in Information Studies. The conference will take place on July 24, 2020 in Washington, DC at George Washington University. From the call: This gathering seeks to create an inclusive space ...

EVENT: Centering Art History & Visual Culture in the Digital Humanities

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A Symposium Celebrating 10 Years of the Wired! Lab will be hosted by Duke University on October 17-18, 2019. This conference will highlight the analysis of spatial problems through computational methods and digital visualization, focusing on the contributions of art historians and visual culture scholars. The event is intended to spark conversations on spatial and ...

OPPORTUNITY: Research Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Call for Applicants

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The University of Nebraska-Lincoln is inviting applications to attend “Research Institute in Digital Ethnic Studies,” a two-week program that will afford 25 participants (ACLS Summer Scholars) the opportunity to collaborate with other scholars from Minority Serving Institutions. The institute will be held July 26-August 8, 2020. From the call: This ACLS summer institute is designed ...

JOB: Research Scientist (Georgia Tech)

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2019

From the announcement: Georgia Tech’s Digital Integrative Liberal Arts Center (DILAC), with major funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, seeks a research scientist for design, development, and project management in the context of our diverse scholarly, pedagogical, expressive, and public-facing digital projects. We are particularly looking for expertise with digital archives encompassing text, audio, ...

RECOMMENDED: Manifesto: A Life on the Hyphen

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2019

In their new article in Digital Humanities Quarterly Hélène Huet, Suzan Alteri, and Laurie N. Taylor from the University of Florida reflect on the challenges of engaging in “invisible work and life on the hyphen — between the academy and the library and between the human and the digital.” “Manifesto: A Life on the Hyphen: Balancing ...

POST: OCR Now Available in the National Archives Catalog

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2019

The National Archives has announced the addition of Optical Character Recognition (OCR) search capabilities to its online catalog. Until now, the catalog was only searchable by a few metadata fields — including title and description — or crowdsourced tags and transcriptions. OCR functionality will improve search across millions of pages, and potentially make findable some ...

POST: Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain

Sep

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2019

This Motherboard post by Karl Bode details efforts of archivists, activists, and libraries to vastly expand the number public domain books that are being digitized, with particular emphasis on books published between 1923 and 1964. “As it currently stands, all books published in the U.S. before 1924 are in the public domain, meaning they’re publicly ...

EVENT: Digital Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges – Registration Open

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2019

Hosted by the University at Albany, University Libraries and Binghamton University Libraries, Digital Scholarship: Opportunities and Challenges is a one-day conference that will bring together scholars interested in exploring all aspects of digital scholarship. The conference will showcase new and important digital research projects, explore the potential of new and emerging trends in digital scholarship ...

CFP: Digital Initiatives Symposium 2020

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2019

University of San Diego’s Copley Library has announced its call for proposals for the Seventh Annual Digital Initiatives Symposium on April 27-28, 2020. Organizers welcome proposals from a wide variety of organizations, including colleges and universities of all sizes, community colleges, public libraries, special libraries, museums, and other cultural memory institutions. They are especially interested ...