OPPORTUNITY: Open Data Day Mini-grants

The Open Knowledge Foundation has announced mini-grant opportunities for Open Data Day in order to support people hosting events across the globe. Anyone may apply for $300 USD awards, and events should fit into one of four tracks: Environmental data: Use open data to illustrate the urgency of the climate emergency and spur people into ...

OPPORTUNITY: Host a #DLFteach Twitter Chat

The Digital Library Federation (DLF) Digital Library Pedagogy working group, also known as #DLFteach, has published their slate of 2021 #DLFTeach Twitter chats: Tuesday, February 16th, 2:00pm EST – more info coming soon! Tuesday, April 20th, 2:00 pm EST Thursday, June 17th, 2:00 pm EST Tuesday, August 17th, 7:00 pm EST Monday, October 18th, 2:00 pm ...

OPPORTUNITY: Researcher, Computing Cultural Heritage Collections Project

The Library of Congress is looking for a researcher to help the Library “build a rich understanding of the uses for large scale computational access to library collections, including images, audio, video, web, text, and structured metadata” as part of the Computing Cultural Heritage Collections project in LC Labs. Supported by the Andres W. Mellon ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACH Mentorship Working Group

The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) invites applications to participate in a one-year mentorship program for graduate students interested in digital humanities work in and around the academy, including libraries, archives, museums, teaching, and research. From the call: This program will bring together a cohort of 5-10 Masters and PhD students interested in ...

OPPORTUNITY: ACLS Digital Extension Grants

The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications for ACLS Digital Extension Grants, which are made possible by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grants are designed to advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects, extending their reach to new communities of users, and supporting teams of scholars at all career stages as ...

OPPORTUNITY: HILT 2020 Scholarships

Registration is now open for the 8th annual Humanities Intensive Learning and Teaching (HILT) training institute, to be held in Lincoln, Nebraska, on the campus of the University of Nebraska, from May 18th-May 22nd, 2020. To help defray the costs of attending and participating in the institute, a limited number of Sponsored Student Scholarships are ...

OPPORTUNITY: Digital Humanities Fellowships, American Philosophical Library

The American Philosophical Society (APS) Library is seeking applications for one-month, project-based digital humanities fellowships. These fellowships are open to scholars at all stages of their careers, including graduate students, and include a $3,000 stipend once the successful applicant has arrived at the Library. The APS is seeking projects that, per the announcement: 1) utilize ...

OPPORTUNITY: 2020 ADHO Communications Fellowships

The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) is seeking applicants for its two 2020 Communications Fellowships, each of which comes with a stipend of 500 Euros. The fellowship positions are for part-time, remote work, and entail 3-4 hours of work per week. While working on a small team directed by the ADHO Communications Officer, the ...

OPPORTUNITY: Apply for ARL Digital Scholarship Institute

The ARL Academy is accepting applications for the fifth iteration of the ARL Digital Scholarship Institute, to be held June 15-19 at the University Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From the announcement: The ARL Digital Scholarship Institute (DSI) is a five-day, cohort-based opportunity for library professionals and graduate students enrolled in a library and information science program ...

OPPORTUNITY: Scholarly Communication Assessment Forum scholarship

An IMLS National Forum grant which will enable the assessment of scholarly communication programs at M1Carnegie classified public institutions has been awarded to Sacramento State and San Jose State Universities, This grant, the “Scholarly Communication Assessment Forum,” or “SCAF” will take place on May 4 & 5, 2020 at Sacramento State University. Here, “scholarly communication ...

OPPORTUNITY: Summer School in eXist-db and XQuery for Humanists, June 15-19, 2020

Applications are open for a one-week intensive workshop, Summer School in eXist-db and XQuery for Humanists, which will be held at the University of Lyon in France, 15-19 June 2020. The training is intended for people interested in capitalizing on their existing knowledge of XML and XPATH, and other web technologies, in order to develop ...