Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio (GL 540) Tuesday, December 10th, from 2-3PM to learn what makes a better survey--whether for research or assessment--that will minimize ambiguity and bias in responses, and increase participation. The workshop will also cover what to do with your data after you have collected it. Taught by expert survey designer and Digital Archives Librarian Kelley Rowan and open to anyone...
Join us in the Digital Scholar Studio (Green Library 540) on Thursday, November 14th, at 2pm, for a workshop on digital storytelling using the free web tools TimlineJS and StoryMapJS. This workshop will be taught by Dr. Hadassah St. Hubert and is open to anyone in the FIU community with an interest in DH or digital scholarship tools and methods. For questions or to RSVP, please email...
The University of Houston US Latino Digital Humanities (USLDH) is providing stipends of up to $7500 to scholars to advance their work on US Latinx digital humanities projects. For more information see the call for proposals here: https://artepublicopress.com/recovery-program/grantsinaid/...
Are you interested in digital humanities, but you don't know where to start? Are you already working on something great and just want to share? Open Studio is a weekly chance to consult with a DH Librarian, discuss digital scholarship methods and tools, exchange ideas, and form connections with colleagues from different programs and departments. Stop by and check it out! When: Tuesdays, 11am-1pm Where: The Digital Scholar Studio, Green Library...
Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage and the University of Houston-Downtown are hosting the XV Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Conference, February 20-22, 2020 in Houston, Texas. The theme of the conference is "Histories and Cultures of Latinas: Suffrage, Activism, and Women's Rights." The full call for proposals is linked here: Recovery CFP...
Reviews in Digital Humanities, a new peer-reviewed journal that seeks to offer scholarly evaluation of projects in digital humanities, has issued its first call for projects with a deadline of September 1st, 2019. [mkdf_blockquote text= title_tag="h2" width=""]The goal of Reviews in Digital Humanities is to foster critical discourse about digital scholarship in a format useful to other scholars. The journal publishes project overviews written by project...
LYRASIS is offering a webinar series on FADGI (Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative): Standards-Compliant Still Image Digitization, and we will be tuning-in in the Digital Scholar Studio! From the LYRASIS website: [mkdf_blockquote text="What makes an image a "good" image? How can image quality be measured in a standards-compliant, repeatable fashion? Digitization consumes resources, and there only may be a single opportunity to convert certain collections; how can...
The Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) has issued the call for proposals for DH2020, taking place in Ottawa, Canada on July 20-25, 2020. The conference theme is “carrefours/intersections,” or a place where roads or streets meet. More information can be found in the formal call for proposals. ...
As part of our new series getting to know the digital scholars of FIU, we sat down with Dr. Hadassah St. Hubert, CLIR Postdoctoral Fellow at the Digital Library of the Caribbean (dLOC), to talk about her experiences with digital humanities projects and digital scholarship tools What are your research interests? I finished up my PhD in History at the University of Miami last year, 2018, and...
The History Lab at Columbia University, with support from The American Council of Learned Societies, is hosting a free History as a Data Science workshop, following the 2020 American Historical Society Meeting in New York City. This multi-day workshop is for historians looking to "learn practical and approachable data science skills to analyze digital and digitized texts." Please see the Call for Applications for more information. When:...