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| | | | RECOMMENDED: Large Language Models and Academic Writing | | The South African Journal of Science recently published an article by Martin Bekker (University of the Witwatersrand) that explores a tiered model for assessing academic authors' engagement with large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's ChatGPT. "Large language models and academic writing: Five tiers of engagement" offers guidance for academic journal editors, university instructors and curriculum developers (and library workers) on ... | | | | | | | | EVENT: 2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities | | The 2024 Symposium on African Digital Humanities: Digital Humanities, African Stories, and Agency will take place on February 15-16, 2024, from 8:30AM-5:00PM GMT at the University of Ghana-Legon and online via Zoom. The 2024 symposium "seeks to stimulate a dialogue that addresses the intersections of the digital humanities and African stories and agency. We will explore digital storytelling and its ... | | | | | | | | EVENT: Queer and Trans Art as Knowledge Mobilization | | The University of Toronto's Critical Digital Humanities Initiative hosts a Lightning Lunch series on Zoom. Coming up on Wednesday, February 14, at 12:00pm EST, speakers Cait McKinney (Simon Fraser University), Chris Vargas (Western Washington University), and Dallas Fellini (University of Toronto) will share their work in a discussion titled "Queer & Trans Art as Knowledge Mobilization." From the event announcement: ... | | | | | | | | EVENT: Indigenous Knowledges - Introductory Workshop | | Indigenous Knowledges, a free introductory workshop presented by AHRC-NEH Indigenous Knowledges, will take place on Thursday, February 15, 2024, from 10:00-11:30am GMT. This workshop will be the first in a series of four that "will explore relationship building, Indigenous research ethics, Protocols, data sovereignty, and developing digitally curated collections through the CMS platform Mukurtu." Peter Runge, Head of Special Collections ... | | | | | | | | CFP: Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum 2024 | | The Digital Library Federation (DLF) invites proposals for the in-person 2024 DLF Forum, which will be held in partnership with Michigan State University Libraries and the MSU College of Arts and Letters in East Lansing, Michigan, July 29-31, 2024. Office hours will be held on February 15 (register here) for prospective presenters to learn more about this year's DLF events, ... | | | | | | | | CFP: Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship (ILiADS) 2024 | | The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the seventh annual Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship which will be hosted in person, July 14-19, 2024, by Pitts Theology Library at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Collaborative digital project teams are invited to submit proposals to participate in the week-long summer institute. From the call: ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment ... | | | | | | | | CFP: Summer 2024 Open Education Publishing Institute | | The Graduate Center of the City University of New York has announced a call for participants for their Open Education Publishing Institute to be held in Summer 2024. The three-week hybrid institute will take place in person June 12th-14th, 2024 at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York, and virtually via Zoom June 17th-27th, with virtual follow-ups in August and ... | | | | | | | | CFP: Keystone DH 2024 Conference | | Keystone DH -- a network of institutions and practitioners committed to advancing collaborative scholarship in digital humanities research and pedagogy across the Mid-Atlantic -- has announced that the annual Keystone DH conference will be hosted in-person by the DIGIT program at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College on May 20-22, 2024. Conference organizers have shared a call for proposals for ... | | | | | | | | CFP: Boston DH 2024 Conference | | The call for proposals for Boston DH 2024, a "one day symposium of greater Boston-area scholars, community members, library and archives professionals, students, and practitioners across disciplines who engage with digital approaches, pedagogy, and methods in humanities and social sciences research" has been extended to February 16, 2024. The event will take place on April 12, 2024 in person on ... | | | | | | | | 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: Through our Civic Data Literacy ... | | | | | | | | 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 mathematics. The first two workshops ... | | | | | | | | |