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Funding: ACLS Digital Extension Grants

About the funding: ACLS invites applications for ACLS Digital Extension Grants, made possible by the generous assistance of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This program supports digitally based research projects in all disciplines of the humanities and related social sciences. It is hoped that these grants will advance humanistic scholarship by enhancing established digital projects and […]

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Funding: 2019 Code4Lib Diversity Scholarships

About the funding: As part of Code4Lib’s ongoing commitment to reducing economic barriers that prevent participation for underrepresented groups and achieving a balanced representation of the human experience, we are pleased to announce that we are now seeking applicants for our 2019 Diversity Scholarship program http://2019.code4lib.org/general-info/scholarships! The Code4Lib Scholarship Committee hopes to award 15 Diversity […]

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Opportunity: British Library Labs Awards 2018

About the opportunity: The annual Awards formally recognise outstanding and innovative work that has been carried out using the British Library’s digital collections and data. This year, the awards will commend work in four key categories… A prize of £500 for the winner and £100 for the runner up in each category will be awarded […]

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Funding: Collections as Data – Part to Whole

About the funding: A growing number of cultural heritage organizations have invested in the creation of collections that are amenable to computational use. Increasingly, the concept of collections as data is used to align efforts of this kind. In 2016, Always Already Computational: Collections as Data, supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, […]

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Funding: Mellon-Schlesinger Summer Research Grants

About the funding: A major grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has allowed the Schlesinger Library to launch the Long 19th Amendment Project interrogating the centennial of American women’s suffrage. The grant will fund up to three eight-week residencies each June–July in 2019, 2020, and 2021 for researchers doing advanced work on the gender […]

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Opportunity: KB Researcher-in-residence 2019

About the opportunity: Are you an early career social scientist, data scientist, computer scientist, humanities scholar, or more simply put, a researcher working with or interested in our digital collections, such as the web archive, 60 million pages digitised text or anonymised user log data? Then we’re looking for you! The Koninklijke Bibliotheek (KB), National […]

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Opportunity: UC Berkeley Digital Humanities Summer Program

About the opportunity: Looking for something to do this summer that includes a data science perspective? If so, enroll in the Digital Humanities Summer Program to gain practical, technical, and programming skills and experience while engaging with fascinating content from the arts and humanities. UC Berkeley undergraduate students can enroll in summer courses to earn an official […]

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Opportunity: ACH Paid Communications Internship

About the opportunity: The Association for Computers and the Humanities seeks applicants for a paid Communications internship. The intern will work with the ACH Executive to write blog posts and announcements about ACH and the broader digital humanities community; monitor and update ACH’s social media presence; assist in maintenance of its website; and perform other […]

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Funding: Announcing 2018 Deadline for NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program

From the announcement: I’m pleased to announce that the next deadline for the NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program will be September 26, 2018. The Humanities Open Book Program is designed to make outstanding out-of-print humanities books available to a wide audience by making them open access. NEH and Mellon are soliciting proposals from academic presses, […]

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Opportunity: US History Scene Summer 2018 Internships

From the post: U.S. History Scene, a multimedia history education project founded by Harvard historians, is currently seeking undergraduate and graduate applicants for its Summer 2018 Historical Writing and Research Internship Program. Interns will gain valuable writing and publishing skills through the process of writing, submitting, and editing original multimedia research articles, book reviews, and classroom lesson […]