OPPORTUNITY: Digital Humanities Summer Institute Scholarships

The Digital Humanities Summer Institute will be accepting applications for scholarships for the Summer 2014 Institute. The scholarships cover tuition costs with the exception of a small, non-refundable administration fee (students $150, non-students $300). Details for submitting applications will be announced via the DHSI e-mail list and DHInstitute on Twitter. Applications are considered on a ...

OPPORTUNITY: DLF Conference Scholarships

The Digital Library Federation, the Association of Research Libraries, and Electronic Resources and Libraries have announced a fellowship program to help offset costs to attend the DLF Forum, to be held in Austin from November 4–6, 2013. ARL/DLF Forum Fellowship for Underrepresented Groups Five fellowships to promote diversity at the DLF Forum. Fellowships will provide ...

OPPORTUNITY: Speaking in Code

Applications are now being accepted for “Speaking in Code,” an NEH-funded symposium taking place November 4-5, 2013, at the University of Virginia’s Scholars’ Lab. The event has been organized as an attempt to make explicit the tacit knowledge that is usually employed by software developers in the digital humanities. As the announcement explains: Over the ...

CFP: ADHO Calls for Proposals for New Special Interest Groups

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has issued a call for proposals for Special Interest Groups (SIGs). From the announcement: By forming a SIG, those with similar professional specialties, interests, and aptitudes can exchange ideas, stay current, and mobilize to pursue common goals across the boundaries of ADHO’s individual Constituent Organizations. According to the ...

OPPORTUNITY: Editorial Recruitment, Open Library of the Humanities

The Open Library of the Humanities is seeking editors for its disciplinary fields. As described by its cofounder Martin Eve in a piece in the Guardian’s Higher Education Network blog in March, the Open Library of the Humanities seeks “to offer a low-APC (academic publishing costs) or APC-free solution for rigorously reviewed, digitally preserved work across ...

OPPORTUNITIES: Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Publications Liaison

The ADHO invites applications for Publications Liaison, “a volunteer position to help increase the visibility of the association’s journals and other publications.” This would be a great opportunity for a librarian to get involved in a DH project. From the position description: ADHO publications are primarily owned by its constituent organizations; these publications include: LLC. ...

OPPORTUNITY: NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Summer Institute

The year’s summer institute, June 17 – July 6 in Jonesboro and Fayetteville, Arkansas, will address the issues surrounding the: “academic use of game engines, including the balance of immersion with accuracy, strategies for storytelling and graphical user interfaces (GUIs) in ‘serious’ games, and questions of power and appropriateness in using video game conventions to ...