I wanted to let everyone know about the Omeka Plugin Rush 2010. Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions.

We are currently accepting applications to create one of several Omeka plugins:

FlickrImporter
AnonymousTagging
MetaComplete
Flowplayer
FeedImporter

Participants will be honored with some Omeka swag, a spot in our Developers' Hall of Fame, and a small sum of money.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis, but all plugins are due by 5/1/2010. [read more...]

AHRC's statement here:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News/Latest/Pages/innovativeresearch.aspx

Interesting stuff, although I notice that none of their sources are actually referenced or linked to, instead simply referred to as 'the study' or 'recent research'. Tut tut.

"The False-Door: dissolution and becoming in Roman wall-painting" is an e-monograph by Maurice Owen (Southampton Solent University), accessible via this URL:

http://creadm.solent.ac.uk/custom/rwpainting/cover/index.htm...

It examines the impact that the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum had on the modern world - from Neoclassicism to Disaster movies and unpacks the numerous modern filters through which we view this period in antiquity. [read more...]

Colleagues at Cardiff University are working an Ordnance Survey research project about vernacular place names in Great Britain. The research aims to collect and represent informal place names to improve information systems that are currently only based on administrative place names. [read more...]

Recent launch of Eastern Art Online: The Yousef Jameel Centre for Islamic and Asian Art
http://jameelcentre.ashmolean.org/

This is a major online resource from the recently expanded and refurbished Ashmolean, to open up the University of Oxford's Islamic and Asian Art collections held at the Museum to a wider audience.

The site showcases collections from the Islamic Middle East, the Indian Subcontinent, Southeast Asia, China, Japan and Korea. Currently there are around 1,400 objects on the site, but this figure will be [read more...]

The Alpheios Project has released the first beta version of a set of free reading aids and learning tools for Classical Greek and Latin. The source code is also freely available to developers. [read more...]

Hi all,

If anyone has any interesting Digital Humanities feeds, then please send them my way. I am feeding them through a Wordpress installation using a nifty feed plug in as well as filtering through Yahoo Pipes. The site primarily has an Australian focus, but any feed is welcome.

2cultures.net

Craig

The Erasmus AcademyNY is now offering courses online. [read more...]

The 1938 British Empire Exhibition was a stunning display of architectural achievement and a reflection of the life and culture of Glasgow, the UK and the Commonwealth. It incorporated over 100 innovative buildings, including the world famous Tait’s Tower and attracted over 12.5million people to Bellahouston Park, Glasgow over its six month run. This last public showcase of the Empire was of huge international significance and continues to be relevant to the study of British social and industrial history and modernist architecture. [read more...]

Posted on behalf of the INKE team: this research project and associated survey may be of interest.

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Dear Colleague, [read more...]