RECOMMENDED: Reviews in Digital Humanities

Reviews in Digital Humanities is a new, peer-reviewed open access journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs, such as digital archives, multimedia or multimodal scholarship, digital exhibits, visualizations, digital games, digital tools, and digital projects. The journal responds to the challenge of the growth of the number and scale of ...

RESOURCE: Developing the Librarian Workforce for Data Science and Open Science

In April 2019, National Library of Medicine’s Office of Strategic Initiatives held a workshop to explore how librarians can become more deeply involved in data and open science, and to identify the skills needed to do so successfully. The workshop convened library practitioners with experience working on DS/OS issues from a range of scientific disciplines, ...

CFP: Digital Humanities Australia 2020

The Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) invites proposals for posters, short and long papers, panels, and workshops to be presented at the DHA 2020 conference, which will be held 25-28 November 2020 in Ōtautahi Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand. From the call: The conference theme for 2020 will be “Ka Renarena Te Taukaea / Creating ...

EVENT: Connecting Collections as Data, May 2020

The Library of Congress Labs will be hosting “Connecting Collections as Data: Transforming Communities, Sharing Knowledge, and Building Networks with International GLAM Labs,” in Washington, DC, 4-6 May 2020. The two-day event aims to “connect with the active and robust digital library, digital scholarship, digital humanities, and collections as data communities active across North America ...

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 ...

JOB: Systems & Data Services Librarian (Davidson College)

From the announcement: Davidson College’s library is seeking a Systems and Data Services Librarian to partner with teaching and learning colleagues to provide technological implementation and oversight for library information systems, digitization, research data management, metadata management, and database construction. The ideal candidate will also contribute to the continuous improvement and integration of the Library’s ...

CFP: We’re Looking for Spring 2020 Editors-at-Large!

Greetings, friends! The dh+lib Review, a volunteer-driven service for highlighting and sharing the best of digital humanities and libraries, is looking for Editors-at-Large for Spring 2020. dh+lib Review posts appear on the dh+lib homepage, in a weekly email newsletter, and are shared in our Twitter feed. Items are selected from the streams of content produced and shared ...

RECOMMENDED: Radical Collaboration: Making the Computational Turn in Special Collections and Archives

In a recent ResearchDataQ editorial, Montana State University (MSU) Library’s Justin D. Shanks (CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow), Sara Mannheimer (Assistant Professor, Data Librarian), and Jason Clark (Professor, Head of Special Collection and Archival Informatics) explore the computational turn in special collections and archives. With initiatives such as Collections as Data, librarians and archivists are working closer ...

POST: Co-creating Open Infrastructure to Support Epistemic Diversity and Knowledge Equity

Reflecting on the theme of this year’s Open Access Week, “Open For Whom,” Yasmeen Shorish and Leslie Chan turn their attention to scholarly infrastructure. In their post, Shorish and Chan call attention to questions of diversity, equity, and inclusion in scholarly communication, broadly construed to include digital humanities work happening within and beyond libraries. They ...

POST: ‘Despatches from the Fourth Quadrant’: Three observations from this year’s Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference

Stephen Brooks shares reflections from the recent DCDC2019 in Jisc‘s Content and Digitisation blog. ‘Despatches from the Fourth Quadrant’: Three observations from this year’s Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities (DCDC) conference, held November 12-14 in Birmingham, U.K. In addition to providing a thoughtful and detailed overview of the conference and its many innovations, Brooks noted several ...

CFP: Recounting Algorithms

The University of Toronto Mississauga Library invites proposals for its upcoming workshop, Recounting Algorithms: A Workshop on Critical Algorithm Studies in the Library. From the call: How can libraries and archives best contribute to emerging critical discourses around algorithms, machine learning, and artificial intelligence? Recounting Algorithms is a two-day workshop, supported by the Council on ...