| | | | | | This edition of dh+lib Review is now available. Many thanks to our editors-at-large: Jennifer Matthews, Kayla Abner, Rebekah Walker, Ruth Carpenter, Arianne Hartsell-Gundy, Elizabeth Parke, Divya Mathur, Kristin Van Diest, Emily Cukier, Leigh Bonds, Melissa Runnels, Johannes Sibeko, and Amy Gay.
| All the best,
Rachel Starry and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara
| | Rachel Starry (she/her/hers) | | Head of Digital Scholarship Services | | Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara (she/her/hers) | | Digital Scholarship Librarian | | University of Colorado Boulder | | | | | | RECOMMENDED: Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Data | A recently published paper in the Journal of Open Humanities Data titled "Datasheets for Digital Cultural Heritage Data" explores the complexities of datasets created from digital cultural heritage collections, with the purpose of providing recommended standards for documenting these datasets. Their interest in better describing these kinds of datasets relates primarily to the Collections as Data movement in GLAM institutions, ...
| | | | | | PROJECT: Virtual Viking Longship Project | An interdisciplinary team of undergraduate students, library workers, and faculty from Carleton College and Grinnell College are using 3D modeling and VR technology to explore the social and cultural roles of Viking longships, in collaboration with museum professionals from the Viking Museum Haithabu and the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County. The Virtual Viking Longship Project was recently spotlighted ...
| | | | | | CFP: Exploring Epistemic Virtues and Vices: Data, Infrastructures, and Episteme between Collaboration and Exploitation | Conveners of the Sixth Annual Conference on Digital Humanities and Digital History, have released their call for proposals. The Conference, to take place in March 2024, will be held at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) with hybrid options, and is organized in collaboration with the German Historical Institute Washington (GHI), the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History ...
| | | | | | CFP: On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing" | The Journal of Electronic Publishing invites proposals for their special issue, "On Gathering: Exploring Collective and Embodied Modes of Scholarly Communication and Publishing." From the call: When we think of scholarly communication, we're usually thinking of something that can be shared independent of its creator(s). A book, a journal article, multimodal work, conference proceedings-the formal and disembodied aftereffects of a ...
| | | | | | CFP: Digital Humanities 2024 | The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has posted a call for proposals for Digital Humanities 2024: "Reinvention and Responsibility." The DH2024 conference will be held August 6-9, 2024, at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, USA. From the call: Reinvention is a call to act with creativity, compassion, and intentionality to better meet the needs of our communities, while ...
| | | | | | EVENT: HASTAC Scholars Digital Friday | The HASTAC (Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory) Scholars are hosting informal virtual get-togethers to workshop projects, exchange ideas, and build community. "Digital Fridays is an exciting platform where HASTAC Scholars and expert speakers come together to explore cutting-edge topics at the intersection of technology and the arts, humanities, and sciences." The next gathering takes place November 17, ...
| | | | | | EVENTS: Representations of AI | The Digital Humanities Research Hub at the University of London are hosting two upcoming seminars, in which scholars and researchers "scrutinize representations of 'intelligent machines', and discuss how memes, literature, gender stereotypes, and colonial histories shape AI and the role it plays in today's society. Conceived as a series of conversations, the seminar brings together experts from across the arts, ...
| | | | | | OPPORTUNITY: CollectionBuilder LIS Student Program | The CollectionBuilder 2023 Incentives Program is the latest grant-funded opportunity for using and contributing to CollectionBuilder, and open-source, Lib-Static tool and infrastructure. Currently, applications are being accepted to their Library & Information Science (LIS) Student Program. The program offers eight $400 stipends to current LIS students interested in learning more about and using CollectionBuilder for their own digital projects. From ...
| | | | | | OPPORTUNITY: NEH, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence | The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has announced a new program, Humanities Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence, "to support research projects that seek to understand and address the ethical, legal, and societal implications of AI. NEH is particularly interested in projects that explore the impacts of AI-related technologies on truth, trust, and democracy; safety and security; and privacy, civil rights, ...
| | | | | | JOB: Digital Scholarship Team Leader, Case Western Reserve University | From the post: Employer Case Western Reserve University Location Cleveland, Ohio Salary This position is a Librarian 3 with a minimum of $77,780. Posted Date Oct 17, 2023 Case Western Reserve University seeks a forward thinking, inclusive, and collaborative individual for the Digital Scholarship Team Leader position. POSITION DESCRIPTION The Digital Scholarship Team Leader heads a highly collaborative team that ...
| | | | | | JOB: Data Services Librarian, Middlebury College | From the post: The Data Services Librarian leads the library's efforts to support digital scholarship and data science research and teaching. They lead the management and use of the Federal Depository documents collection. They act as a library liaison, teach information literacy skills, provide outreach, and build relationships with students, faculty, and staff, contributing knowledge and creativity to the library, ...
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