[Digital_humanities] Fw: News and Information from the UCLA Digital Humanities Program

[Borovsky, Zoe]

I am working from my office!  Excited (and still setting up systems), it's good to be back.
Thought I'd pass things along...
--zoe



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From: UCLA Digital Humanities Program <dhminor at humnet.ucla.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, September 14, 2021 5:51 PM
To: Borovsky, Zoe <zoe at library.ucla.edu>
Subject: News and Information from the UCLA Digital Humanities Program

What's New with DH?
2021 Digital Humanities Newsletter
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News and Information from the UCLA Digital Humanities Program
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Thank you!
This year marks Professor Todd Presner’s tenth as the inaugural Chair of UCLA’s Digital Humanities Program. Launched in 2010-2011, Todd chaired the ad hoc committee that created the DH Minor and Graduate Certificate. Under his leadership, the undergraduate program has grown from 20-30 students to nearly 200, becoming the second largest Minor in the Humanities Division, with a flourishing graduate program as well. As one of the pioneers in Digital Humanities, Todd’s research has advanced humanistic geospatial research with his HyperCities<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=6a6a4a197f&e=9fe8fa18ad> project, and his most recent work employs a wide-range of computational methods – from natural language processing to machine learning – to pose new questions of Holocaust history and memory. The DH Program’s research and pedagogical focus on social justice issues owes much to the example Todd has set with his scholarship and courses, such as his highly successful “Big Data for Social Justice” summer class. Thank you, Todd, for your vision, guidance, energy, and dedication to seeing this program succeed!
UCLA NEWS & ANNOUNCEMENTS

DH Undergraduate Student Research Assistant<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=ab7d327824&e=9fe8fa18ad>

Project Title: Exploring the Socio-Political World of the Ottoman Empire through Data Analysis.
The Student Research Assistant on this project will work closely with Dr. Ashley Sanders, Vice Chair of Digital Humanities, to either computationally or manually data mine webpages for information on governors of the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire. This work supports a larger study of the roles that ethnicity, gender, and kinship played in the socio-political world of the Ottoman Empire. Once we have gathered the data, we will begin to visualize and analyze it statistically. The webpages are in English, so no additional languages are required. Familiarity with Python, NLP, R, Tableau, and/or statistics are a plus but not necessary skills. This is an opportunity to learn some of these skills if you do not already possess them.
To apply: Submit resume and email of interest with a description of skills and interest in position to Dr. Ashley Sanders at asandersgarcia at ucla.edu<mailto:asandersgarcia at ucla.edu> by 5:00pm Monday, September 20.


Social & Multimedia Undergraduate Student Assistant for the DH Program

The Digital Humanities Program seeks 1-2 work study Undergraduate Student Assistants (SA). SAs will provide support for the DH program in ways that utilize their specialized skill set by creating social media content for the DH Program’s Twitter and Instagram accounts, as well as multimedia content for the website. In addition, the SA will collaborate with the DH Program’s GSR and Vice Chair to visualize and analyze data related to the program and prepare it for presentation in reports, the program website, and social media. Each position is 8-10 hours per week and pays $16-$20 per hour, depending on background and skill set.
To apply, go to MyUCLA > Finance and Jobs > Jobs and Community > Work-Study Job Search. The job number is 0640-3.



Looking for Communications GSR in Digital Humanities

Job Description: Assist the Labor Center communications staff. Duties include creating web and social media content, providing technical assistance for webinars, generating email content, and designing print and web materials for the Labor Center’s projects.
The UCLA Labor Center believes that a public university belongs to the people and should advance quality education and employment for all. Every day we bring together workers, students, faculty, and policymakers to address the most critical issues facing working people today. Our research, education, and policy work lifts industry standards, creates jobs that are good for communities, and strengthens immigrant rights, especially for students and youth.

The ideal candidate is passionate about visual design, innovative storytelling, and social justice issues, and has a strong visual eye and interest in graphic design, photography, video, and social media platforms. Applicants should be tech savvy and able to learn new software quickly. Knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite and video/audio editing is a plus.

To apply, send a paragraph about yourself, resume, and your schedule of availability to Communications Specialist Veena Hampapur at veenash at ucla.edu<mailto:veenash at ucla.edu>.

GENERAL DH NEWS & EVENTS

"Europeans in Exile: Thomas Mann’s L.A." | Student Projects Presentation of the Capstone Seminar at UCLA <https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=97309c0ea4&e=9fe8fa18ad>

In the Spring Quarter 2021, the Thomas Mann House and the Digital Humanities Program<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=f9489e9b56&e=9fe8fa18ad> at the University of California, Los Angeles collaborated to offer a seminar on European exile in California. The seminar examined the depth and breadth of European émigrés’ contributions to Los Angeles in the 1930s and 1940s and how these contributions continue to influence the city. The course readings, workshops and discussions exposed students to the philosophy and practice of digital humanities methodologies in order to interpret and engage with the course’s themes. Students worked in groups to create a web-based project exploring and analyzing a theme from the course from multiple angles and paired original scholarship with interactive primary source material.

The results of the student’s research projects are now online and can be accessed and explored on this UCLA website<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=ea35c2af02&e=9fe8fa18ad>. Students explored topics such as Émigré Immigration Paths: From Europe to Los Angeles and The German Exile Community's Fight Against Nazi Germany. They applied computational methods like "Thick Mapping," "Social Network Analysis,” or "Voyant Tools."

Job Opportunities For Grads

Digital Projects Designer | Penn State University<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=612808cfeb&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: Rolling

The College of Liberal Arts at Penn State University invites applications for a Digital Projects Designer at the rank of full-time Researcher or Assistant Research Professor to support projects emerging from the “Just Transformations: A College of the Liberal Arts Initiative Toward Building and Sustaining Diverse Communities in Higher Education” supported by Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The initiative seeks to intellectually and professionally develop, support, and prepare cohorts of emerging humanities researchers and scholars who hail from historically underrepresented racial minority (URM) groups. This position will be housed within the Office of Digital Pedagogy and Scholarship (DPS) and will report to the Director of the Digital Liberal Arts Initiative (DLA). The target start date is flexible but will begin no later than Spring 2022. Review of applications will begin on August 13th, 2021, and will continue until the position is filled. All interviews will be conducted remotely, with the option to do a campus visit.


Part-time (variable schedule) programmer

Professor David Shorter (World Arts and Cultures/Dance) is seeking to hire a part-time (variable schedule) programmer to work on The Archive of Healing and The Wiki for Indigenous Languages. Ideal candidates would be open to working as needed starting in July. Skills needed are in the following order: Drupal 8, Drupal 7, with some familiarity with SQL databases, CSS, and HTML. Proficiency with Javascript and PHP is ideal. If CSS processor languages such as Less are not readily available, they will be learned on the job. The projects need someone experienced in maintaining an Apache web server, and if possible, Amazon Web Services. Please email a brief statement of interest and resume to Dr. Shorter at shorter at ucla.edu<mailto:shorter at ucla.edu>.


Coordinator (Operations) – Electronic Textual Cultures Lab | University of Victoria<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=8d967a550a&e=9fe8fa18ad>

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) at the University of Victoria seeks an engaged and organised self-starter for the position of Coordinator (Operations), a full-time (40 hours a week), on-campus role.

About us: The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL; etcl.uvic.ca) is a humanities lab based in the Digital Scholarship Commons at the University of Victoria Libraries. The ETCL is a hub for digital humanities activities across the UVic campus, from coast-to-coast, and around the world.

With a mandate including research, teaching, and service activities, the ETCL acts as an intellectual centre for the activities of some twenty local faculty, staff, and students as well as visiting scholars (over 150 since 2004). ETCL members work closely with research centres, libraries, academic departments, and projects locally, regionally, and internationally. Through a series of highly collaborative relationships, the ETCL’s international community comprises over 300 researchers.


Post-Doctoral Researcher, CACSSS Graduate School | University College Cork<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=2d01752e80&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: 09/15/2021 12:00 - Europe/London Time

The EURONEWS initiative, funded by the Irish Research Council and hosted by University College Cork, is looking for a postdoc to work for a year on a platform collecting images and transcriptions of early modern handwritten newsletters. The successful candidate will be responsible for helping to put the final touches on the EURONEWS platform, designed for collecting the data from archival study and transcriptions now being completed by the other members of the team. The most urgent task at the moment is to maintain and syncronize two databases, as well as help build a research platform for the EURONEWS project, to manage and analyze content drawn from archival documents in the Florence State Archive and elsewhere. The Florence-based Medici Archive Project MIA interface (MAP) operates a CMS containing thousands of text files, including many created by EURONEWS, marked up with links to some 40 tables (images and text); a portion of this data will be synchronized with the EURONEWS project platform (ENP). For the ENP an XML compiler is also envisioned. On site presence not a requirement.


TT Assistant Professor of Information Studies | University of Ottawa<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=286e2d6592&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: by October 15, 2021 to receive full consideration

The School of Information Studies of the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Arts invites applications for a tenure-track position with a specialization in Digital Humanities (and relevant research and teaching experience in library and information sciences) with a start date of July 1, 2022. Responsibilities for the position include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses, supervising graduate students, and providing vision and leadership related to the development of teaching, research, and outreach (e.g., advancing digital cultural practices within galleries, libraries, archives and museums as a sector). The successful candidate will be expected to carry out a robust research program, seek external funding, demonstrate a sustained commitment to active participation in the administrative activities of the unit and the Faculty, and participate in the activities of professional organizations.
Call for Proposals

Digital GLAM Spaces: Building a Community of Practice for User Experience and Accessibility Conference<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=7972007fc0&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: November 10th, 2021

The University of Oregon Libraries in partnership with Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art and with the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation are excited to call for proposals for the Digital GLAM Spaces: Building a Community of Practice for User Experience and Accessibility Conference. This one-day virtual conference will be held on November 10, 2021.


Belvedere Museum Vienna | Digital Conference 2022<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=a988ba5573&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: October 17, 2021

During five evenings, the online conference will feature a range of interdisciplinary contributions, which above all – but not exclusively – critically reflect on the following topics:
The structural transformation of the public sphere in the digital age
The logic of selection and interpretation in the modern media ecosystem
“Platformization” and the erosion of the traditional rituals for engaging with art
Artificial intelligence and new forms of curating
Human-computer interaction in the museum
Forms of participation in real/ digital spaces
The relationship between original-digital-virtual
Hybrid publishing and new forms of knowledge representation

We look forward to receiving your proposals for topics in the fields of museum/museology, art and cultural history, media studies and digital humanities. Please send your abstracts for a 20- to 25-minute presentation in German or English (max. 250 words), including a short biography with complete contact information as one PDF document by 17 October 2021 to a.kroupova at belvedere.at<mailto:a.kroupova at belvedere.at>.


AI for Cultural Heritage Materials | Journal of Documentation (special issue)<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=d375f3a629&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Submission deadline: January 2022

TITLE OF SPECIAL ISSUE – Artificial Intelligence for Cultural Heritage Materials
This special issue of the Journal of Documentation will focus on the uses of Artificial Intelligence in the provisioning and use of digital cultural heritage collections with restricted or difficult access, whether due to privacy concerns, copyright restrictions, or the sheer volume of cultural heritage data (which, barring catastrophic data loss, is always on the increase).

The three main questions to be explored in this issue are: How can we use AI to make digital cultural heritage collections more accessible? How might we analyze these collections using AI research methods? And can we identify synergies and collaborative avenues among cultural organizations around the world that are engaged in AI-enhanced research and access methods?

Submission deadline: January 2022
Review and editorial window: February-June 2022
Anticipated publication date: Autumn 2022


5th ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geospatial Humanities<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=2243607a05&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Deadline: September 13, 2021

This workshop concerns with the use of geographic information systems and other spatial technologies in humanities research, placing an emphasis on new methodologies that leverage the aforementioned technical developments. The standard tools from geographic information systems, as well as more advanced methods such as text- and image-based geographical analysis or spatial simulation, can all benefit from innovative approaches leveraging machine learning, parallel and/or distributed computation, semantic technologies, etc. on humanities sources like archival manuscripts, maps, encyclopedias, newspapers, correspondence collections and more. These kinds of documents pose new challenges for identifying and analyzing spatial information. The workshop aims to bring together researchers and practitioners from different sub-fields of computer science and the geographical information sciences interested in the application of spatial methods and technology to the humanities to discuss how to address these issues in ways that generate new knowledge in multiple disciplines. Participants will demonstrate their contributions and explore how modern GIS and other technologies can inform, and be inspired by, the digital humanities.
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Events

Conferences: DLF Forum 2021 & related events<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=4d533b9b07&e=9fe8fa18ad>
DLF programs stretch year-round, but we are perhaps best known for our signature event, the annual DLF Forum. The DLF Forum welcomes digital library, archives, and museum practitioners from member institutions and beyond—for whom it serves as a meeting place, marketplace, and congress.

Attend our Affiliated Events!
NDSA's Digital Preservation 2021
November 4
Digital Preservation is the annual conference of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance. DigiPres is expected to be a crucial venue for intellectual exchange, community-building, development of best practices, and national-level agenda-setting in the field.

Learn at DLF
November 8-10
Now in its fourth year, Learn at DLF returns in 2021 includes engaging, hands-on sessions where attendees will gain experience with new tools and resources, exchange ideas, and develop and share expertise with fellow community members as well as short tutorials about specific tools, techniques, workflows, or concepts.


Data Viz Early Career Connect -  RSVP<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=9b6c3d77a1&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Date: September 16 at 12pm EST
Early Career Connect is a community event hosted by the Data Visualization Society. The aim is to help early career members meet other people in the data viz community with similar interests! The first iteration of the event will be on September 16 at 12pm EST. The time of the event will rotate each time to be accessible to different time zones. When a participant joins the event, they will be able to navigate to a room with a specific topic of interest and speak with other people interested in that same topic. Examples of rooms could include "data journalism," "sports viz," "tableau," "career changer," and "undergrad students." The rooms created for the event will be based on the feedback you provide in this form.


Finding a Graduate Program in Data Science & Data Visualization<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=da7eb864e5&e=9fe8fa18ad>
Date: Sep 14, 2021 11:00 AM ET

This event is presented by the Data Visualization Society. It is organized for our early career members, but anyone is welcome to attend. Your email address will only be used for sending a reminder email and a follow up with the event recording.

Other News & Opportunities

Resources
What to Expect in Data Visualization Engineer Job Interviews | Nightingale<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=4c24460a33&e=9fe8fa18ad>

Preparing for data visualization job interviews can be quite challenging, as it seems every company asks different things. I wrote this article based on my own experience, hoping it can give job hunters some ideas on what to expect, as well as surveying ideas for conducting an interview for someone with this skill set.


Workshops: Fall 2021 virtual HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) Workshops<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=924251a5aa&e=9fe8fa18ad>

Registration is now open for fall 2021 virtual HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) workshops. This term we are offering 2 series of workshops. Each series will be offering the same core of 3 workshop events--an intro to HathiTrust data and HTRC, and focused workshops on the HTRC Extracted Features Dataset and Data Capsule, respectively -- with an additional librarian-centric workshop on supporting text and data mining from the library in Series 2.
This virtual workshop series will introduce attendees to the tools and services of HTRC. Each workshop, taking place on a different day, will address a different aspect of text and data mining using HathiTrust data and HTRC services. Attendees are not required to attend all workshops in a series, and can pick and choose the events that best match their interests and schedules. For someone totally new to text mining and to HathiTrust, it is recommended to attend the introductory session. Librarians who attend all 4 unique workshops will have the option to join the cohort of HTRC trainers from past workshop series, which provides access to a community list and additional training opportunities (https://wiki.htrc.illinois.edu/x/ogD3<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=41fde1abd9&e=9fe8fa18ad> ).


Library Juice Academy Course Listing<https://ucla.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f571e8b9f741118e5862bb349&id=49313d9a9a&e=9fe8fa18ad>

Our courses use an online course management system. We use Moodle, an easy-to-use open source platform with few technical requirements beyond an internet connection and standard browser interface. Courses are taught asynchronously (meaning that you don’t have to be online at any particular time), and involve reading assignments, offline activities, and class participation. Our strong emphasis is on interaction between the students and the instructors. A four week course involves about fifteen hours of work (3.75 hours per week). Our instructors are knowledgeable professionals actively engaged in the learning process, and are there to support you.

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