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** Please excuse any crossposting** Good morning colleagues, The Chesapeake Digital Humanities Consortium Steering Committee is *extending the deadline for CDHC 2021 proposal to Wednesday, December 9, 2020.* Please see our CFP here <https://chesapeakedh.github.io/conference-2021> and you may submit your proposals here <https://forms.gle/yo8ACeTgb93pX1gy5>. *The Steering Committee is also pleased to announce that Dr. Amanda French <https://amandafrench.net/> will be keynoting CDHC 2021!* Former director of Digital Services at UVA and GWU, French is now Community Lead and Data Entry Shift Lead at The COVID Tracking Project <https://covidtracking.com/>. The COVID Tracking Project is a volunteer organization launched from The Atlantic and dedicated to collecting and publishing the data required to understand the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States. Every day, they collect data on COVID-19 testing and patient outcomes from all 50 states, 5 territories, and the District of Columbia. Their dataset is currently in use by national and local news organizations across the United States and by research projects and agencies worldwide. Their data API (which allows sites and apps to import our dataset automatically) receives about two million requests per day. On April 15, they launched the COVID Racial Data Tracker, a partnership between the COVID Tracking Project and the Center for Antiracist Research that collects, publishes, and analyzes racial data on the pandemic within the United States. We are looking forward to reviewing your proposals and hearing Dr. French speak. For more information on conference details please see our website at *https://chesapeakedh.github.io/conference-2021 <https://chesapeakedh.github.io/conference-2021>.* If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to reach out to the Steering Committee at [log in to unmask] Please share widely! Best, CDHC Steering Committee -- Alex Kinnaman Digital Preservation Coordinator Virginia Tech University Libraries [log in to unmask] ######################################################################## to manage your DLF-ANNOUNCE subscription, visit diglib.org/announce