RECOMMENDED: Preserving Geospatial Data: DPC Technology Watch Report

The Digital Preservation Coalition has made freely-available online Preserving Geospatial Data, written by Meagan A. Snow, Geospatial Data Visualization Librarian at the Geography & Map Division of the Library of Congress: This report is designed as a resource for use by librarians, archivists, and digital preservation specialists who may be new to the realm of ...

CFP: Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation

The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy (JITP) invites submissions for a special issue on, “Digital Humanities: Labor, Political Economy and Activism in the Age of Digital Mediation.”  From the call: We are all digital humanists now: we are all interpellated as users of platforms, workers in the marketized university, subjects to a changing political ...

CFP: Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation

This year, the Florida Digital Humanities Consortium (FLDH) is celebrating its ten year anniversary, and hosting its annual event on 20 September 2024, at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, Florida, entitled, “Humanities in the Age of AI: Celebrating a Decade of Innovation.” From the call: This conference will focus on exploring the intricate ...

CFP: TEI 2024: Texts, Languages, and Communities

The annual Text Encoding Initiative conference, TEI 2024, is set for 7–11 October 2024 in-person at Universidad del Salvador in Buenos Aires, Argentina and the organizers invite submissions for papers, posters, panels, demos, and workshops. This event, marking the Text Encoding Initiative’s twenty-fourth conference, is themed around, “Texts, Languages, and Communities,” which encourages contributions that ...

EVENT: AI UK Fringe 2024, Alan Turing Institute

Throughout the month of March, the Alan Turing Institute is hosting AI UK Fringe 2024, a series of in-person and online events including talks and workshops exploring artificial intelligence. Topics relate directly to our work in library and information science, digital humanities, and data pedagogy. Here is a sample of events likely of interest to ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Specialist (University of Michigan)

From the announcement: Summary The Digital Scholarship Specialist partners with students, faculty, staff, and librarians to enhance learning, teaching, and scholarship through technologies and knowledge of emerging digital research methods across departments. You will join a network of functional and subject experts, contributing to the evolution of digital scholarship and consultation services at the University ...

JOB: Research & Digital Humanities Librarian (Allegheny College)

From the announcement: ROLE TITLE:  Research & Digital Humanities Librarian REPORTS TO: Dean of the Library — Summary of Position The Research & Digital Humanities Librarian provides research guidance, information literacy instruction, and digital technologies collaboration and support for faculty, academic staff and students through the lenses of the Library, the Center for Research and ...

JOB: Digital Scholarship Librarian (UC Irvine)

From the announcement: Position overview Salary range: Salary commensurate with qualifications and experience based on the University of California pay scales. Appointment is anticipated to be at the Assistant or Associate Librarian rank with a salary of $61,920 – $92,345. The posted UC salary scales set the minimum pay determined by rank and salary point ...

PROJECT: Alice Dunbar-Nelson Correspondence Network Dataset

A Collections as Data pilot project at the University of Delaware, the network dataset for Alice Dunbar-Nelson’s correspondence is now available for download via the UDel institutional repository. Alice Dunbar-Nelson was an African-American civil rights activist, author, educator, wife of notable poet Paul Laurence Dunbar; the correspondence collection contains her literary, professional, and personal papers, ...

RESOURCE: AI for Humanists Tutorials

The collaborative, NEH-funded AI for Humanists project (formerly the BERT for Humanists project) creates learning resources aimed at empowering humanities scholars to use machine learning and artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs) in creative new ways. Adding to its repository of tutorials, primarily for python coding, two new tutorials have recently been published ...

CFP: DH Inside Out (DH2024 Mini-Conference)

DH2024 is seeking submissions and reviewers for the mini-conference at DH2024, “DH Inside Out,” which will be held August 6-9 at George Mason University. Rather than focusing on research and theoretical applications, this conference will focus on the technical details within the context of a project – from design and implementation to tools and code. ...