OPPORTUNITY: DLFTeach Leadership Positions

DLFTeach is seeking volunteers for two leadership positions. From the call: We are seeking new leadership for DLFTeach! The time and energy commitment is minimal, but you will make a big impact. Currently, our most important priorities are sustaining the toolkit and engaging the DLFTeach community. Here are some ways you can be involved: Co-Facilitator ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Public Humanities Fellowship

Applications are open for the 2025-26 Public Humanities Fellowship program offered by Oregon State University’s PRAx Center. The theme of this year’s fellowship is “Trust in the Age of Generative AI,” asking applicants to consider how they might contribute to public-facing projects “that will deepen political, ethical and/or social engagement with issues related to data ...

OPPORTUNITY: Closed DEIA Offices Volunteer Project (InvisibleHistory.org)

The Invisible Histories Project (InvisibleHistory.org) seeks volunteers to help to create a list of closed, closing, and at-risk of closure DEIA offices, programs, and centers across the US. From their social media and call: The volunteers will work for the next three months to manually download two year’s worth of data (per volunteer) from DEIA ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: CollectionBuilder Digital Librarian Cohort Program

The University of Idaho’s CollectionBuilder seeks applications for its Digital Librarian Cohort Program. From the announcement: We’re looking for digital librarians, broadly construed, who have an interest working with a cohort of professionals over the course of 2025 to: advance their own understanding of CollectionBuilder and Lib-Static development practices build a CollectionBuilder-based project contribute back ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Digitizing Hidden Collections: Amplifying Unheard Voices

The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) announces its call for applications for Digitizing Hidden Special Collections and Archives: Amplifying Unheard Voices competitive grant. As the call for applications explains, this grant program focuses on: digitizing rare and unique content stewarded by collecting organizations in the US and Canada. Launched in 2021, the program ...

OPPORTUNITY: DHQ Editors

Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is currently recruiting for an Accessibility Editor, Book and Tool Review Editor, and Languages Editor. These volunteer positions are enlisted for renewable, three-year terms. As DHQ usually has multiple editors in each area, selected applicants would be working in a collaborative capacity. DHQ is endeavoring to build a diverse team of ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Projects Review Editor, American Quarterly

The American Studies Association (ASA) Digital Humanities Caucus seeks nominations for a new Digital Projects Review Editor for American Quarterly, the journal of the ASA. From the email call: Digital project reviews carry on the traditions and guidelines of book reviewing in the American Quarterly, including the careful selection of projects based on the importance ...

OPPORTUNITY: Paid Usability Testing for trans, queer, bipoc, and disabled people

The “Trans Mediascapes” research project at Carleton University seeks individuals to help test the Transgender Media Portal. In particular, the project team seeks individuals in Canada and the U.S. who are over the age of 16 and identify as Trans, Two Spirit, nonbinary, intersex, gender nonconforming, queer Black, Indigenous, racialized, a person of colour Deaf, ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: HTRC TORCHLITE Hackathon

The TORCHLITE project is hosting a hackathon May 21-23, 2024 in Champaign, Illinois for researchers and programmers interested in text analysis and data mining/visualization using HathiTrust Research Center tools. The hackathon deliverables include data visualizations, Jupyter notebooks, applications, and creative uses for its new tools. Participants who are selected to attend will receive up to ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Civic Switchboard Institutes

With the support of IMLS funding, Civic Switchboard aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems. The project team has announced a series of institutes taking place throughout 2024 that may be of interest to library workers engaged with digital research support and data literacy instruction. From the announcement: ...

FUNDING/OPPORTUNITY: Statistics and Network Analysis Workshops (Mathematical Humanists Project)

The Mathematical Humanists project, from the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History at New Media at George Mason University and the University of California-Los Angeles, is offering a series of workshops “on the mathematics that underpins common Digital Humanities (DH) methods.” Workshops will cover topics such as applied statistics, graphs and networks, linear algebra, and discrete ...