JOB: Associate Director or Senior Associate Director, Digital Humanities Center, Barnard College

From the announcement: Job: Associate Director or Senior Associate Director, Digital Humanities Center Job Summary: Reporting to the Faculty Director of the Digital Humanities Center (DHC), this position provides leadership and coordination in the strategic planning and implementation of policies, systems, programs, and services to support the DHC’s mission. The Associate Director’s responsibilities include designing, ...

RECOMMENDED: Reviews in Digital Humanities, Vol. 4.4

The latest issue of Reviews in Digital Humanities (vol 4, no 4, April 2023) has been released. This issue features projects that were sourced from their open submission process. This issue’s Editors’ Note highlights the role the reviewers have in the journal and their philosophy towards review., from the piece:  We’ve been fortunate that all ...

PROJECT: Religious Ecologies

The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media’s American Religious Ecologies project has received another grant to continue the work, focusing on the 1926 Census of Religious Bodies. The materials are an important source of information about American religious institutions and the project is working on transcribing them into datasets that can be used ...

POST: Touching Data: Conducting a Survey With Paper and Thread

A recent piece in Nightingale “Touching Data: Conducting a Survey With Paper and Thread” explores using physical data methods to collect survey results. This process also resulted instant visualization of the results. While this survey was not on a humanities specific topic, this method could provide interesting new ways to engage patrons with humanities data questions. ...

RESOURCE: Scholarly API Cookbook

The Scholarly API Cookbook is an open online book containing short scholarly API code examples (i.e., “recipes”) that demonstrate how to work with various scholarly web service APIs. It is part of the University of Alabama Libraries efforts to support Research Data Services and covers a variety of APIs, like Wikidata, Chronicaling America, and U.S. ...

RESOURCE: Jupyter notebooks for digital humanities

Jupyter notebooks for digital humanities is a list compiled by Quinn Dombrowski of Jupyter notebooks covering research, course materials, learning python, as well as specific forms of analysis. There are notebooks available in English, German, Spanish and French. The list was started in 2019, but was most recently updated in April 2023, making this a ...

RESOURCE: LOC By The People Transcription Datasets

The Library of Congress By The People project has released two new datasets from its crowdsourced transcription campaigns, the correspondence of Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz and the notebooks of Frederick Hockley. The O’Keeffe/Stieglitz dataset includes over 500 letters they wrote between 1929-1947 to their friend Henwar Rodakiewicz, a documentary filmmaker. The digital collection of ...

EVENT: Overcoming Legal Barriers to Text and Data Mining

“Overcoming Legal Barriers to Text and Data Mining” hosted by ACH on May 15 at 1pm EST is a free webinar open that is open to ACH-members and non-members. From the event description: This webinar is meant to help researchers understand how existing law can help them move forward on text and data mining projects ...

EVENT: wikihistories2023 Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting)

Registration is now open for the first annual wikihistories symposium: Wikipedia and its implications for memory (and forgetting), a free virtual conference that will be re-run across a number of time zones between June 7th and June 9th to best accommodate registrants around the world. The symposium will feature keynotes by Dr. Shira Klein, author of ...

EVENT: Adventures in handwriting recognition with Transkribus

Adventures in handwriting recognition with Transkribus – experimentation with archives in Aotearoa New Zealand (May 9th 11 am AEST) is a free online event that explores a number of handwriting transcription projects and new features of Transkribus. The talk will feature Vivienne Cuff, an archivist based at the Dunedin Regional Office of Archives New Zealand, ...

EVENT: ACH 2023

ACH 2023 focuses on equity and justice in digital humanities scholarship, choosing to highlight the sociopolitical aspects of the work in the place of a formal theme. The keynote will be a roundtable focusing on accessibility and digital scholarship. Registration is now open. The conference will be held virtually from June 29-July 1. dh+lib ReviewThis ...