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This week's dh+lib Review: October 6-18

  • 1.  This week's dh+lib Review: October 6-18

    Posted Oct 19, 2023 03:14 PM


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    Greetings!

    This edition of dh+lib Review is now available. Many thanks to our editors-at-large: Kelly Hammond, Tugba Korhan, Divya Mathur, Mimosa Shah, Michelle Speed, Ashlyn Stewart, April Urban, Erica Leslie Weidner, Chelsea Wells, and Vera Zoricic.

    All the best,
    Pamella Lach and Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara

    Pamella Lach (she/her/hers)
    Digital Humanities Librarian
    San Diego State University
    plach@sdsu.edu

    Nickoal Eichmann-Kalwara (she/her/hers)
    Digital Scholarship Librarian
    University of Colorado Boulder
    nickoal.eichmann@colorado.edu

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    Danica Savonick (SUNY Cortland) published "Teaching DH on a Shoestring: Minimalist Digital Humanities Pedagogy" in the December 2022 issue (no 21) of The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. This was a themed issue dedicated to Open Educational Resources and hosted on Manifold. From the abstract: This article explores minimalist digital humanities pedagogy: strategies for teaching DH at institutions that ...

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    POST: Modeling Cultural Networks in the Classroom with Constellate

    In recent years, JSTOR Labs launched Constellate Lab, a modern successor of JSTOR Data for Research, to enable computational analysis of historical newspapers, scholarly journals, and other documents within the JSTOR corpora. With tutorials including analysis with Python notebooks and datasets builders, Constellate focuses on data pedagogy to sharpen and enhance ones data skills. Dr. Natalie M. Susmann, digital scholarship ...

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    CFP: XVII Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference

    Hosted at the University of Houston, the XVII Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference will be held April 25-27, 2024. The meeting theme, "The Right to Write, Speak and Be in Times of Banning, Censorship and Persecution," seeks to highlight the resistance to state oppression of ideology, identity, race, sexuality, language, immigration status, etc. From the call for proposals: ...

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    CFP: CJAL Special Issue: Libraries and/as Extraction

    The Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship has announced a call for a special issue on Libraries and/as Extraction, a theme which intersects with digital humanities librarianship in multifaceted ways. From the call: The concept of extraction (or extractivism) has been used in myriad disciplines - geography, international relations, environment, economics - often to describe social formations around natural resource management. ...

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    CFP: Computers & Writing 2024

    Texas Christian University will be hosting the conference, Computers & Writing 2024, June 21-23 in 2024, with the theme, "Seriously Digital: Work, Play, and Digital Storytelling for 'Post' Pandemic People." From the call for proposals: Throughout the ongoing pandemic, digital tools have been heralded as solutions to pandemic-related problems. This historical moment features several disruptions to "business as usual" where ...

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    CFP: Open Book Futures

    Sponsored by Coventry University and the Open Book Collective, Open Book Futures invites individuals and project teams to submit proposals for experimental, long-form scholarly book projects. From the call for proposals: We are delighted to announce support and funding for three experimental book publishing pilots as part of the Open Book Futures (OBF) project. These pilot projects will be supported by ...

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    EVENT: DH Office Hours: Lightning Talks Fall 2023

    Northeastern University's Digital Scholarship Group and NULab for Texts, Maps, and Networks are hosting a set of virtual lightning talks on November 1 at 12–1pm Eastern, 9–10am Pacific, 4–5pm Greenwich Mean Time: The panel will feature lightning talks by: Brian Ball-Philosophy, Northeastern University London-on the Simulating Epistemic Injustice project Tieanna Graphenreed-English-on THE BROWNIES' BOOK: Mapping Black Boston Education Histories Robin ...

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    EVENT: World Digital Preservation Day

    World Digital Preservation Day is Tuesday, November 2 ,2023. The Digital Preservation Coalition (DPC) "invites all data creators, archivists, curators, community members and digipres folk from around the world to celebrate digital preservation by participating in a whole day dedicated to all of the benefits and opportunities enabled by the hard work of our dynamic and collaborative community." This year's ...

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    EVENT: Digital Humanities Quarterly Community Event

    Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) is hosting a virtual community event on Friday, November 3rd from 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm (EST): The DHQ editorial team will present on a series of new initiatives the journal has accomplished and introduce exciting updates on our site re-design. We look forward to bringing together the DHQ community of readers, authors, and peer reviewers. Register for ...

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    OPPORTUNITY: Journal of Map & Geography Libraries Editorial Board

    The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is seeking 10 individuals to join their Editorial Board. From the email announcement:  The Journal of Map & Geography Libraries is seeking 10 individuals to join the Editorial Board and contribute to the future directions and success of the journal. We aim to assemble an Editorial Board with a diverse membership in terms ...

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    JOB: Digital Humanities Librarian, Florida State University

    From the posting: Florida State University (FSU) Libraries seeks a highly motivated, innovative, and collegial librarian for the position of Digital Humanities Librarian. Responsibilities Directly engage with faculty, students, and staff by providing consultations, instruction, online guides, and other support services related to research methodology, technical applications, and other aspects of digital humanities research Evaluate academic needs in the humanities ...

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    JOB: Digital Projects Librarian, University of Oklahoma

    From the posting: The University of Oklahoma Libraries is seeking a collaborative, detail-oriented individual to join our team as the Digital Projects Librarian. Working in the Bizzell Memorial Library, within the Digital Strategies and Innovation Division, this position reports to the Director of Digital Scholarship and Data Services. The successful candidate will be joining a team of expert technologists responsible ...

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    JOB: Metadata Consultant for the Humanities, Virginia Tech

    From the posting: The University Libraries at Virginia Tech seeks a full-time Metadata Consultant for the Humanities to serve as a library metadata expert for publishing and digital humanities work. This position will have a dual reporting line to the Coordinator of Metadata Technologies within the Metadata Services Unit (70% time), and to the Interim Director of Publishing Services (30% ...

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