DHC-NC Roundup [March 3, 2023]
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DHC-NC Roundup
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Events
Digital South Panel Series Presents: Combining Pedagogy and Research on the American South
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Where: Virtual
When: Tuesday, March 7, 2023 | 11:00 am — 12:00 pm EDT
The Digital South is a project of the University Libraries that aims to foster collaborative and meaningful engagement between scholars that are using digital methods to study the American South. With these aims in mind, we are excited to have three panels this semester. Each panel will consist of two or more scholars sharing about their projects and answering questions from a moderator and the audience. Panel topics are concerned with histories of oppression and resistance in the South while exploring a wide range of available digital methodologies. In the March program, panelists will present on the Federal Writers Project and A Red Record.
Understanding and Assessing Scholarly Research Impact
Duke University
Where: Virtual
When: Wednesday, March 8, 2023 | 6:00 pm — 8:00 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
In today’s scholarly ecosystem, authors are keen to follow the impact their research has within the academy and beyond. Impact can be broadly defined as citations, readership, and the overall use of your scholarly work (articles, books, data, etc.). In this workshop, Haley Walton (Librarian for Education and Open Scholarship) and Jodi Psoter (Marine Lab Librarian) will give an introduction to scholarly impact to contextualize and define many measures of research use, from quantitative bibliometrics to qualitative altmetrics. Tools for tracking your impact will be discussed and participants will be able to interactively explore them during the session. Participants will leave the session with a better understanding of how to measure impact, including best practices, pros and pitfalls of various metrics, and with practical ways to keep track of their research impact. This session is online. RCR credit will be given.
Datafest Workshop Series: An Introduction to Data Analysis With R
Duke University
Where: Bostock Library 127 (The Edge Workshop Room), West Campus, Duke University
When: Thursday, March 9, 2023 | 1:00 pm — 3:00 pm EST
A gentle introduction to R and the Tidyverse using RStudio. This two-hour, hands-on session introduces data wrangling, visualization, and exploratory data analysis (EDA). Our focus will be the the dplyr and ggplot2 packages. Tidyverse, is an approachable set of consistent data science tools enabling the R statistical programming language.
NOTE: Bring your laptop. The Edge Workshop Room does not provide computers.
If, Then Technology and Poetics Series: Amira Hanafi on a Radical Digital Commons
Where: Virtual
When: Friday, March 17, 2023 | 1:00 pm — 2:00 pm EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)
On Friday, March 17th at 1PM, poet Amira Hanafi will lead a session on her project, The CreaTures Glossary, "a set of tools for giving meaning to a lexicon of terms related to creative practice and transformational change." An interactive project that calls users to imagine a radical digital commons, the CreaTures Glossary understands language "as a site where displays of power are continuously produced and contested. Rather than produce fixed definitions, the Glossary distributes power to define language throughout the community or collective that interacts with it." Check out the project and accompanying toolkits on the website here.
This event is part of If, Then: Technology and Poetics, a collaborative, public, and interdisciplinary virtual working group and workshop series promoting inclusivity and skills-building in creative computation. Check out our website here and get in touch with Carly Schnitzler (csch...@live.unc.edu) or Lillian-Yvonne Bertram (lber...@northeastern.edu) with any questions or suggestions.
Is It Time to Change Scholarly Publishing as We Know It?
Duke University
Where: Bostock Library 127 (The Edge Workshop Room), Duke University
When: Monday, March 20, 2023 | 3:00 pm — 4:00 pm EDT
Scholarly journals evolved in a print world where they had to be selective and do a lot of review and filtering up front, because of physical limitations on how much they could publish and distribute. In a digital world, these constraints are no longer necessary, opening up space for innovation and improvements. Nowhere is this clearer than in the recent growth of preprints, where authors take control of when to share their work. But in a world where preprints are commonplace, what is the role of the journal? eLife, a not-for-profit, peer-reviewed, open access scientific journal for the biomedical and life sciences, has been exploring this question, and recently announced new changes to its model to focus on detailed preprint assessment instead of binary accept/reject decisions. This lead to a great deal of discussion in the community about how journals could or should work, and the pros and cons of this kind of model for researchers, research assessment, and science more broadly. Damian Pattinson, Executive Director of eLife, will be in Durham on Monday March 20, and will join members of the Duke community to explain the new eLife model, what it aims to do, and to engage us in conversation about it. Come with your questions and ideas, and learn more about a potential new model for scholarly journal publishing.
This event will be held in The Edge Workshop Room (Room 127) on the first floor of Bostock Library on Duke's West Campus. It is open to members of the Duke community and anyone interested in this topic.
This will be an in-person event. Registration is not required - just show up! Masking is encouraged.
Digital South Panel Series Presents: Exhibiting North Carolina Black History
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Where: Virtual
When: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm EDT
The Digital South is a project of the University Libraries that aims to foster collaborative and meaningful engagement between scholars that are using digital methods to study the American South. With these aims in mind, we are excited to have three panels this semester. Each panel will consist of two or more scholars sharing about their projects and answering questions from a moderator and the audience. Panel topics are concerned with histories of oppression and resistance in the South while exploring a wide range of available digital methodologies. In this program, panelists will discuss the Penn Papers Exhibit and North Carolina Black Feminism.
Open Scholarship: Practices and Principles
Duke University Libraries
Where: Virtual
When: Wednesday, March 22, 2023 | 1:00 — 3:00 EST
With the recent trends towards openness as expressed in funder and journal policies (such as the new OSTP memo focusing on Immediate and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research), many scholars are looking to build new practices into their workflows and enhance their impact. This workshop will present an overview of how and why you might incorporate open scholarship practices into your research and publishing, including the benefits to you, your discipline, and the broader public. It will also prepare you to meet new requirements being put in place by many funding agencies, and give you tools to make sure you can protect your rights and get credit for your work while sharing it broadly.
Legal Issues in Computational Research Using Images and Audio-Visual Works
Duke University
Where: Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Franklin Humanities Institute, Durham, NC
When: Tuesday, April 4, 2023 | 2:00 pm — 3:00 pm EDT
Computational research using large numbers of images and audio-visual works holds incredible potential, yielding new insights and enabling new technologies. Unfortunately, legal uncertainty associated with text and data-mining of images and audio-visual works can stifle this research. Recent lawsuits, such as the high-profile cases brought against Micrsoft, Github, StabiltyAI only underscore this uncertainty, causing researchers to either avoid this work or to bias their work by relying only on works thought to be “safe” from copyright problems. This workshop will survey the existing law and policy and highlight pathways forward for researchers under existing law, including fair use and TDM specific exemptions to copyright, with a specific focus on creating and using datasets of images and audio-visual works.. We will offer a hybrid attendance option, but the workshop will be hands-on, so we encourage in-person participation. We are also offering a workshop on March 23 on legal issues with TDM for textual materials. This workshop is led by Dave Hansen, Executive Director of Authors Alliance, a nonprofit that exists to support authors who research and write for the public benefit. Dave is a copyright expert who has worked extensively on legal barriers to research, and is a PI for the Authors Alliance Text and Data-Mining: Demonstrating Fair Use Project, which is generously supported by the Mellon Foundation. Food and coffee will be provided. Please RSVP here so we can have an accurate count. Location: Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall, Franklin Humanities Institute This event is organized by Duke University Libraries and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute.
Toward Radical Imagination: HBCUs, Digital Libraries, and Authentic Collaboration
Authenticity Project
Where: Virtual
When: April 6 – April 7, 2023
Join us for this two day virtual event where we seek to interrogate ways digital libraries at all institutions might better represent diverse communities and experiences through collections, how technology may be furthering bias and performative diversity work, and what authentic partnerships might look like between HBCUs and other organizations, including predominantly white institutions.
Opportunities
Podcasting the Humanities: Creating Digital Stories for the Public
National Humanities Center
Where: Virtual
When: June 12 – June 16
Since 2018, the National Humanities Center and the Digital Humanities Center at San Diego State University have partnered to offer graduate students and faculty members support and training in public-facing humanities with a focus on podcasting. We have worked with nearly 400 participants from across the country and are excited to support more faculty cohorts.
We will be offering our third annual University/College Podcasting Institute on June 12–16, 2023. This five-day virtual institute will create and support interdisciplinary teams of participants in the conception, design, and production of a 30-minute podcast. The institute will also feature conversations about the value of public humanities work in tenure and promotion and introduce you to faculty who have successfully launched podcasts in their fields.
All college or university faculty are eligible to participate. Each participant will receive podcasting equipment (microphone, headphones, and pop filter).
Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship Call for Papers
Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship
Where: Davidson College, Davidson, NC
When: July 23 – July 28, 2023
**Deadline: March 27, 2023**
The ILiADS Steering Committee welcomes proposals for the seventh annual [Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship](https://iliads.org/call-for-proposals/)! This year’s Institute, hosted by Davidson College in North Carolina, will be held in person July 23-28, 2023.
ILiADS offers a week-long intensive environment for collaborative project teams composed of some mix of researchers, librarians, technologists, and students to build upon established digital pedagogy or scholarship projects and/or launch new ones. To help get a new project started and/or clear hurdles, each team is assigned a Liaison expert to consult on the project and help connect them to other experts. The schedule for the week includes focused team time supplemented by panels and talks designed around the cohort. This allows time for hands-on exploration and open inquiry and allows for the community to drive professional development throughout the week through responsive pop-up sessions and spontaneous collaborations. Over the course of the week, team members will learn more about their own collaboration and how to sustain their project into the future.
The steering committee encourages proposals from teams regardless of their level of familiarity with digital scholarship – newbies and experts alike are welcome to apply! We especially encourage projects led by undergraduates, as well as staff and early career faculty. Additionally, we invite proposals from teams that include members who are Black, Indigenous, Latinx, and people of color, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, and LGBTQ+ people. Projects of all types, and in any stage, are welcomed. We employ an expansive definition of “digital project” that can include topics like infrastructure development and pedagogical practice.
Examples of successful project proposals from the past are linked below. Please send a PDF with your completed proposal to 20...@iliads.org by Monday, March 27, 2023.
Jobs
Visiting Assistant Professor or Instructor in Digital Arts & Humanities
Carleton College
Carleton College invites applications for a full or part-year visiting position at the rank of assistant professor or instructor in our vibrant new Digital Arts & Humanities program for the 2023–2024 academic year. We seek candidates with (or within a year of completing) a Ph.D. in Digital Humanities or another relevant arts, humanities, or social science discipline; demonstrated expertise in DH methods; and a strong commitment to teaching undergraduates in a liberal arts environment. Carleton’s DGAH program bridges traditional divides between the humanities, arts, and computational sciences by emphasizing multidisciplinary collaboration and experimentation while encouraging students to both practice and critically reflect on digital creation and interpretation. This position will involve teaching at least one section of an introductory core course and at least one upper level course in advanced digital arts & humanities methods, theory, or applied project-based learning. The position has flexibility both on the start date (September 1, 2023 or January 1, 2024), and on how those courses are arranged within the three 10-week terms of Carleton's academic year. We are particularly interested in applicants who will strengthen the program’s commitment to students from underrepresented groups.
Digital Humanities Project Director and Manager, College of Arts and Sciences
University at Buffalo
The College of Arts and Sciences ( CAS ) seeks to hire a Digital Humanities (DH) Project Director and Manager to help accelerate impactful and ethical research at the intersections of data (including the building of new archives), computation, and the arts and humanities at the University at Buffalo.
As a collaborative and strategic thinker, this individual will be positioned in the **[Digital Scholarship Studio and Network ( DSSN )](https://www.buffalo.edu/digital-scholarship-studio-network.html)** and CAS, and will bring expertise in DH faculty research project design and management and in broader aspects of faculty research engaging digital scholarship across units of arts, humanities, social sciences, and sciences. This individual will also participate with DSSN leadership in thinking toward launching new initiatives to encourage and extend DH and other digital scholarship research.
Assistant Professor of English: Digital Humanities
Marshall University
The Department of English at Marshall University invites applications for a tenure-eligible Assistant Professor of English with a specialization in Digital Humanities, beginning August 2023. We are seeking a scholar with a well-developed Digital Humanities project as well as expertise and ability to teach in one or more of the following secondary areas: disability studies, film studies, Appalachian studies, Shakespeare, critical theory, professional writing, digital writing and rhetoric, and multimodal composition. The applicant should show evidence of a theoretical and practical understanding of the role of computing in the humanities, which could include the intellectual and cultural effects of text mining, quantitative analysis, visualization, and text and archive creation. Teaching experience and evidence of publication or scholarly potential required as well as Ph.D. in English (or related field) in hand by time of appointment.
Digital Scholarship Specialist
Princeton University
Princeton University Library seeks two curious and innovative Digital Scholarship Specialists (DSS) to support its growing digital scholarship program. Reporting to the Assistant Director of Digital & Open Scholarship, the DSS will collaborate closely with library colleagues within the Research Data & Open Scholarship department to train, support, and collaborate with Princeton researchers on emerging digital research and interactive scholarship.