DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly

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Calls for Editors

DHQ is recruiting for some new editorial positions in winter 2023-24 with the following calls for participation:

Please see the individual calls (listed below) for details about the specific roles and responsibilities of each position. All of these are volunteer positions within the DHQ editorial team, for an initial (renewable) term of three years. We typically have more than one editor in each role, so you would be working as part of a team.

If you are interested in volunteering for one of these positions, please submit a one-page statement describing your interest in the position and your vision for how you would contribute to DHQ’s mission, along with a copy of your CV, by December 15, 2023. We are especially interested in recruiting a diverse editorial team, and in candidates who can contribute a global perspective on the DH field. We encourage applications from people working in all different capacities including staff, students, and faculty, within and outside the academy. Statements and CVs can be uploaded via Google form. We’ll follow up with candidates to schedule a short interview via Zoom.

Accessibility Editor

The DHQ Web Accessibility Editor is a volunteer position within the DHQ editorial team, with responsibility for leading DHQ’s efforts to make the journal’s online presence accessible. We typically have more than one editor in each role, so you would be working as part of a team. DHQ’s articles are expressed in TEI/XML and published on the web using open-source XML tools. In the coming year, DHQ will be undertaking a comprehensive accessibility audit and update. The Accessibility Editors would lead this effort, working as part of the journal’s Collaborative Development team, and would have ongoing responsibility for ensuring that the journal follows best practices for accessibility as those evolve. Training or certification in web accessibility would be welcome but are not essential; we welcome all contributions of effort.

Responsibilities include:

  • Serve as a source of expertise on accessibility within the journal’s editorial team, and contribute to strategic DHQ’s planning in this area
  • Develop policies and practices to improve accessibility, as part of the journal’s editorial workflow
  • Work with the production and development teams to make changes necessary to the journal’s XML data and publication systems to improve accessibility
  • Serve as a point of contact for questions about accessibility of DHQ articles and data

Languages Editor

The DHQ Languages Editor is a volunteer position within the DHQ editorial team, with responsibility for overseeing DHQ’s handling of languages and translation activities. DHQ uses English as its core language, but authors submit articles in languages other than English and our readership spans a very wide range of languages. The journal also publishes special issues in other languages, and receives requests for permission to translate articles into other languages. The Translation Editor works closely with the editorial team to develop the journal’s strategy on language use and translation, in ways that will help expand the journal’s discoverability, legibility, and accessibility to a global audience.

Responsibilities include:

  • Serve as a point of contact for questions about translation and language use in DHQ
  • Develop policies and practices to support the translation of articles and abstracts, as part of the journal’s editorial workflow
  • Work with the production and development teams to develop effective ways of including translations in the XML representation of articles and in the journal’s publication interface
  • Explore the use of machine translation to make translation workflows more efficient

Indexing and Metadata Editor

The DHQ Indexing and Metadata Editor is a volunteer position on the DHQ editorial team. All DHQ editorial positions serve for a renewable term of three years. The Indexing Editor is responsible for overseeing DHQ’s presence in public indexes (such as Web of Science) and finding ways of increasing the journal’s citation, Impact Factor (IF), and other metrics of impact. This will include identifying emerging indexes and impact metrics, making sure DHQ is listed on the important ones, and maintaining current information for authors and readers on the DHQ website. For more information about this position, please contact nmenon@iiti.ac.in.

Responsibilities include:

  • Research and strategic planning concerning appropriate indexing metrics and services for DHQ
  • Awareness of how our data is used in Google Scholar and other points of access
  • Uploading DHQ data and metadata to indexing sites as necessary
  • Liasoning with representatives of indexing agencies to be updated on new or evolving parameters
  • Outreach to other DH journals to develop metrics and alt-metrics strategies
  • Tracking DHQ’s citation analytics and metrics, and reporting these as needed to DHQ’s funding sources, editorial team, and authors
  • Working with the data analytics group to create visualisations of our citations/indexing/metrics, and coordinating with the outreach team to circulate these
  • Developing an understanding of how different indexing metrics are computed and communicating these findings to the DHQ editorial team
  • Understanding the relationship between indexing and search engine optimization (SEO) and working with the Technical editor to implement necessary changes to the DHQ publication

Data Analytics Editor

The DHQ Data Analytics Editor is a volunteer position on the DHQ editorial team. The editor will be responsible for pioneering DHQ’s efforts to incorporate data analytics into the journal’s operations. Through this commitment to data analytics under the leadership of this position, DHQ seeks to improve access to its articles, identify trends in scholarship supported by the journal, and invite the broader scholarly community to shape the future of digital humanities in light of these trends. All DHQ editorial positions serve for a renewable term of three years.

Responsibilities include:

  • Constructing, analyzing, and visualizing datasets pertaining to the journal. Such datasets include XML corpora of published DHQ articles, extracted features datasets to aid with search and recommendation, and datasets contributed by DHQ contributors and researchers.
  • Piloting new affordances pertaining to the discoverability of articles on the DHQ website. Examples include automatedly extracted keywords that highlight article content, as well as a “find similar articles” feature powered by text analysis or citation-based similarity metrics.
  • Utilizing metadata analysis, textual analysis, and data visualization in order to identify the landscape of research that DHQ has supported, as well as areas that DHQ could better support in the future.
  • Documenting data analysis efforts through blog posts on the DHQ website in order to make the results publicly available, as well as set a precedent for the broader DH community.
  • Inviting the broader scholarly community to shape the future of digital humanities in response to this work through special issues and other modes of contribution, such as periodic challenges for new analysis and research.
  • Collaborating with the DHQ editorial team to help construct positions and initiatives such as DHQ residencies for scholars to carry out their own data analysis efforts, or efforts surrounding born-digital content, including not only scholarship pertaining to born-digital documents (such as web archives) but also methods for archiving DH projects available online.
  • Participating in DHQ editorial meetings

Peer Reviews Editor

The DHQ Peer Reviews Editor is a volunteer position on the DHQ editorial team, with responsibility for recruiting and leadership of DHQ’s peer reviewer community. This position works closely with DHQ’s peer reviewers to support their role in the publication process, and helps ensure that DHQ has a substantial and enthusiastic reviewer pool representing the full range of fields and expertise needed as well as broad geographic and demographic diversity. All DHQ editorial positions serve for a renewable term of three years.

Responsibilities include:

  • contributing to DHQ’s strategic planning and long-term vision for the role peer review plays and how it should be conducted
  • monitoring DHQ’s reviewer database in DHQ’s Open Journal Systems installation to maintain current knowledge of the balance of fields, geographical scope, and diversity, and to ensure that reviewer expertise is usefully represented (so that reviewers are discoverable via appropriate keywords)
  • being familiar with OJS and its reviewer management component, and providing regular statistics and insights on reviewer activity to the editorial board
  • working with the managing editors, editorial board, advisory board, and other contacts to organize the recruitment of additional reviewers as needed to support the journal’s reviewing needs as those evolve
  • communicating regularly with reviewers as needed to convey appreciation, get input on the review process, and identify reviewers who no longer wish to participate
  • participating in DHQ editorial meetings