Dear all,
Apologies for cross posting
I am happy to announce (if you have not seen this elsewhere) two events at
UCLA in early December (Dec 8-9) co-organized by Miriam Posner, Patrik
Svensson and myself.
All best,
Élika
Composition Across/Between Edges, Surfaces and Materialities
Symposium, Dec 8, 2016
This symposium explores compositions that happen, emerge, or are partly
enacted at edges, between surfaces and across materialities, scales and
modalities. These kinds of compositions–narrative, artistic, scholarly,
political, infrastructural, etc.–demand a reorientation of established
knowledge models, critical stances, vocabularies and infrastructures. They
shift our attention to their architecture – conceptual and material – and
the very process of composition as argumentative, narrative, and strategic
media ideations. The symposium aims to develop further understandings of
these compositions and partake in the imagining of new practices based on
prolonged conversations, a range of concrete examples and thematic
interventions.
Questions addressed include: What compositions might be possible (and not
possible) in contemporary – complex and multimodal – information ecologies?
What tools and narrative/material strategies would be necessary to enact
them? How can we go beyond “edged” thinking and practice (and contemporary
compositional regimes)? How can we learn from earlier and contemporary work
on materially complex compositions? What is the compositional significance
of the edges? How do they affect material relations of power? How can they
be used to enact social and cultural shifts? Participants bring expertise
from a range of fields and practices including literary studies, design,
scientific visualization, digital humanities, media studies, art history,
classics, media arts, and information studies.
Among invited and confirmed participants (so far) are: Rita Raley, Ricardo
Domínguez, Mark Marino, Anne Balsamo, Zach Horton, Carter Emmart, Johanna
Drucker, Erkki Huhtamo and Jeremy Douglass.
More information and registration here:
http://dhbasecamp.humanities.ucla.edu/compositions/
Please register and join us in Southern California/at UCLA in December (and
also take the opportunity to attend the event described below)! Registered
participants may be asked to be invited participants.
Encoding Diversity
Seminar, Dec 9, 2016, 10 am-12
Room 111, Information Studies Building.
This UCLA Digital Humanities Seminar engages with critical themes inside
and outside the field. The format is meant to be inviting, generous, sharp,
dialogic and experimental. The theme for the December 9 seminar - "Encoding
Diversity" - invites critical-material engagement with the encoding of
library systems, biodiversity databases, public systems, (digital
humanities) institutions and organizations, visual archives, digital
humanities "data" and more. The use of "encoding" is also meant to indicate
an interest in the active engagement with making, challenging and changing
such structures. The conversation will include Ursula Heise, Geoffrey
Bowker, Safiya Umoja Noble, Élika Ortega and Todd Presner. No registration
required.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Eddie Avila <eddie(a)globalvoices.org>
Date: Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 9:24 AM
Subject: [Wiki-research-l] Research project - Challenges for Wikipedia
projects in Latin American indigenous langauges
To: wiki-research-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Hello -
My name is Eddie Avila and I’m with the organization Global Voices. I’ve
been lurking for the past couple of months getting a feel of different
experiences in research around Wikimedia-related topics.
We were recently awarded a Project Grant from the Wikimedia Foundation to
conduct a research project examining the current state of active and
incubator Wikipedias in indigenous languages of Latin America with a
special focus on identifying ongoing challenges for native-speaking editors
and the demand for this content in their communities.
I believe some members of this list provided some feedback on the proposal,
which was greatly appreciated. The project is still a work in progress and
the final, refined proposal will be added to the original proposal. We are
looking forward to adding the Lead Researcher to the team to help us better
define the parameters and design the methodology.
Anyway, we recently published a call for applications (it is in Spanish
because of the language requirement associated with the position), but if
you or someone you might know would be interested in applying, please send
them this link. Deadline is next Friday, Nov. 4.
*Global Voices Busca Investigador/a Principal Para Estudio Sobre Wikipedia
en Lenguas Indígenas <http://bit.ly/wikilenguas> *
Looking forward to providing updates along the way.
Thanks,
Eddie
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Eddie Avila
Director, Rising Voices
Global Voices
http://globalvoicesonline.org
@risingvoices
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Dear all,
*Apologies for cross-posting!*
On November 4th-5th, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University
of Maryland, College Park will host the “Manuscripts in the Digital Age
Workshop," which is co-sponsored by Tufts University’s Perseids Project
<http://perseids.org/>, UMD’s Arts and Humanities Center for Synergy
<http://arhusynergy.umd.edu/>, UMD’s School of Languages, Literatures, and
Cultures (SLLC) <http://sllc.umd.edu/>, and Kent State University’s School
of Library and Information Science <https://www.kent.edu/slis>). It will
bring together researchers, curators, librarians, and technical specialists
from the Perseus Digital Library, Library of Congress, Digital Latin Library,
Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (UPenn), Freer & Sackler
Galleries, and Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities to
discuss the technical challenges for the creation of an integrated online
"manuscript workspace."
The technical participants in this workshop want to better understand the
needs and types of functionality that scholars, students, citizen
scientists, and those working in the GLAM sector would ideally like to see
in such a workspace. For this reason, we are asking any of you who work on
manuscripts to consider taking this very brief questionnaire
<http://kentstate.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_9F8TmPXVOAZ1GHH> about what
types of features and functionality you would like to see developed for
digital manuscript studies: http://kentstate.az1.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_
9F8TmPXVOAZ1GHH
Sincerely,
Bridget Almas, Perseids Project, Tufts University
Emad Khazraee, School of Library and Information Science, Kent State
University
Matthew Thomas Miller, Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, University of
Maryland
Joshua Westgard, University of Maryland Libraries
--
*Matthew Thomas Miller, Ph.D. *
Roshan Institute Research Fellow
Associate Director, Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities
(PersDig@UMD) <http://persdig.umd.edu/>
Roshan Institute for Persian Studies
University of Maryland, College Park
Professional website: http://www.matthewthomasmiller.com/Academia.edu page: https://umcp.academia.edu/MatthewThomasMiller
Estimada(o)s
El Seminario de Tecnologías Filosóficas les hace la cordial invitación para
participar en el número monográfico de la revista Virtualis cuyo problema
eje será: *"Pensar la tecnología"*. Pueden ver la convocatoria en el
siguiente enlace:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MTl1ZPH4NMDTrhwwR2do6mpB0J9TA3O4tVd_FnI…
Pronto saldrá la convocatoria en línea y tendremos la traducción al inglés.
Mientras se las hacemos llegar por este medio esperando sus participaciones.
Reciban saludos
Francisco Barron
**apologies for cross-posting**
Dear colleagues,
It is a pleasure for me to announce the official release of our Virtual ResearchEnvironment EVI-LINHD www.evilinhd.com
EVI-LINHDis a cloud platform free and open-source to create Digital Humanities projectswhich contains a XML-TEI digital edition tool and processing model based oneXist, a space to create digital libraries using Omeka and the power ofWordpress to design beautiful websites for the projects. Users are able tocreate a project from the beginning to the end and share it with their teammembers.
The launchevent will take place on next Wednesday 19th October, at the Schoolof Economics of UNED, Sala Saenz Torrecilla, at 16:00h, and it will also bebroadcasted online.
Moreinformation about the event, free registration, agenda and links to broadcastcan be found here: http://linhd.uned.es/en/news/launch_evilinhd/
Please, feel free to send this information to all peoplethat could be interested,
Best regards
ElenaGonzález-Blanco García
Dpto. de LiteraturaEspañola y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722
Facultad deFilología, UNED
Paseo Senda del Rey7
28040 MADRID
tel. 91 3986873
http://linhd.uned.eshttp://filindig.hypotheses.org/www.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco
@elenagbg
Dear all,
Please consider applying to work with a robust community of DH-ers at
Michigan State University! The following position is available at a
particularly exciting moment as the Library will be hosing a Digital
Scholarship Lab soon. An MLS/MLIS is required, and there is a minimum
salary of $52,000 with good benefits. Share this opportunity widely and
feel free to reach out to me with any questions
-Kristen
The Michigan State University Libraries currently has a posting for a
Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian, Librarian I, posted on MAP (MSU
Applicant Page).
Posting 3981: Reporting to the Head of the Digital Scholarship & Curation
Unit, outreach, branding and coordination of digital scholarship services
will be a significant and immediate focus for this position. Growth and
assessment of services are longer-term goals. Liaison with campus units
currently involved in digital scholarship is a critical component of
developing library services relevant to the MSU community.
The Digital Scholarship Outreach Librarian will work with a team, including
another digital scholarship librarian, to create externally-facing services
in anticipation of a new Digital Scholarship lab. Services will be defined,
including documentation of workflows, limitations, policies, procedures,
and protocols. This person will be expected to investigate and implement
software in support of service management, client relationship, and project
tracking. This person will also create the content for a robust web
presence and catalogue of digital scholarship services by partnering with
Web Services and User Experience. Additional responsibilities, based on
interest and experience of the candidate, may include humanities data
curation, text & data mining, E-Science projects, high-performance
computing, GIS, licensing, project management, or repository development.
You may view the posting and the additional details at https://jobs.msu.edu
posting number 3981. *Closes at **5pm EST on Tuesday, October 25h, 2016.*
Kristen Mapes
Digital Humanities Specialist, College of Arts & Letters
Michigan State University
479 West Circle Drive, Linton Hall 308A
East Lansing MI 48824
517.884.1712
kmapes(a)msu.edu