http://www.euromed2010.eu [read more...]

Dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries

November 8 - 13th, 2010
Limassol, Cyprus

http://www.euromed2010.eu

The EUROMED2010 joint conference will provide an opportunity to exchange research results, opinions, experiences and proposals on the best practice and hi-tech tools from Information and Communications Technology to document, archive, preserve, manage and communicate Cultural Heritage (CH). [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...]

The Program Committee of the 2010 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, poster sessions, and tool demonstrations particularly, but
not exclusively, on digital texts, language resources and any topic that applies TEI to its research.

Submission Topics
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Topics might include but are not restricted to:
* TEI and natural language processing
* TEI and language resources
* Analyzing and quantifying encoded texts
* Aggregation and compilation
* Integrating the TEI with other technologies and standards [read more...]

The TEI 2010 conference will be held at the University of Zadar. The pages are updated frequently.

Workshops: 8-10 of November
Main conference: 11-14 of November

http://ling.unizd.hr/~tei2010/

The Projet Volterra team is very pleased to announce the third colloquium in its latest series.
The colloquium focuses primarily on the use and development of law (Roman, Lombard, and canon) in the context of Italy in the period from the sixth to the ninth century.

Confirmed speakers include Simon Corcoran (UCL), Antonia Fiori (Rome, La Sapienza), Detlef Liebs (Freiburg), Luca Loschiavo (Teramo), and Magnus Ryan (Peterhouse, Cambridge). Further details of the programme will be
posted in due course (see: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history2/volterra/news.htm ). [read more...]

As well as presenting the results of the HESTIA project, it is intended to develop a more general dialogue between classicists (and classical archaeologists), computer scientists and geographers. Submissions from researchers working in any of these fields are therefore welcome. There is a (limited) budget to cover speakers expenses.

More information about the HESTIA project (Herodotus Encoded Space-Text-Imaging Archive) and conference can be found on the website:

http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/hestia/

Please feel free to direct any questions to Elton Barker at
e.t.e.barker@open.ac.uk.

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

UCL Department / Division
Bentham Project
Grade: 7
Hours: Full Time
Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £31,778 - £36,395 per annum

Duties and Responsibilities [read more...]

UCL Department / Division
Bentham Project
Grade: 7
Hours: Full Time
Salary (inclusive of London allowance): £31,778 - £36,395 per annum

Duties and Responsibilities

The Bentham Project is a vibrant research centre, whose purpose is to produce the new authoritative edition of The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham. [read more...]

The Academy of Finland research unit ‘Ancient Greek written sources’ (CoE) is organizing a symposium "Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage: Technological Challenges and Solutions".

The programme comprises of two plenary sessions that are open for public, two workshops that are intended for the speakers only, and one open session on end-user perspective.

Participation in the symposium is free of charge (however, registration is compulsory). For the accepted speakers the CoE will be covering the travel and accommodation costs. [read more...]

We are pleased to invite you to:

High Throughput Humanities

A satellite meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems
Lisbon University Institute ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

http://hth.eccs2010.eu

Abstract: [read more...]

High Throughput Humanities

A satellite meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems
Lisbon University Institute ISCTE in Lisbon, Portugal
Wednesday, September 15, 2010

http://hth.eccs2010.eu

Abstract: [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...]

The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with support from the British Library, in Summer 2010 on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. We are especially interested in work that demonstrates interdisciplinarity or work on the intersections between Ancient History, Classics or Archaeology and a digital, technical or practice-based discipline. [read more...]

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London is looking for three highly motivated and technically sophisticated individuals to work on its text-based research projects. The positions will involve using computer tools and methods to facilitate digital scholarship. [read more...]

We are pleased to invite you to

Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks
– a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010

taking place at BarabásiLab – Center for Complex Network Research,
Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.

Abstract: [read more...]

We are pleased to invite you to

Arts | Humanities | Complex Networks
– a Leonardo satellite symposium at NetSci 2010

taking place at BarabásiLab – Center for Complex Network Research,
Northeastern University in Boston, MA, on Monday, May 10, 2010.

Abstract: [read more...]

in conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative

Registration is now open at: http://dho.ie/ss2010/registration

The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July 2010. Following the highly successful 2009 Summer School, next year’s event will see the expansion of popular workshop strands such as:

* A Practical Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative
* Data Visualisation for the Humanities
* An Introduction to EpiDoc Markup and Editing Tools [read more...]

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/events/gi...

Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and other spatial technologies such as GPS and virtual globes are becoming increasingly used within disciplines such as history, archaeology, literary studies, religious studies and classics. This free workshop, sponsored by Spatial Literacy in Teaching (SPLINT) and the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, will provide a basic introduction to GIS as an approach to humanities research and as a technology. [read more...]

TERI invites your attention to ICDL 2010, the third conference in the Institute’s ICDL
(The International Conference on Digital Libraries) series. ICDL 2010 is proposed to be organized during 23-26 February 2010 in New Delhi. The theme of the conference is ‘Digital Libraries : Shaping the Information Paradigm’ and the focus is on the strengths and potential of digital libraries and their role in education, cultural, social and economic development.

Shaping the Information Paradigm
New Delhi * 23 – 26 February 2010 [read more...]

King’s Arts & Humanities week will take place between 19 and 24 October 2009 and focuses on the relationship between the arts, the academy and the world. [read more...]

Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will be
available at the conference web site from October 8th. Presentations may be
any of the following:

• Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
• Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words)
• Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of
between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly
defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and [read more...]

Digital Humanities is the annual international conference for digital scholarship in the humanities. DH2010 will be hosted at King's College London by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Centre for e-Research, with the support of the School of Arts and Humanities and the Principal, Professor Rick Trainor.

The annual conference is sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO).

http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/index.html

http://ow.ly/1d9ih

The Center For Hellenic Studies will conduct a one-day workshop at the Center's Washington, D.C., campus, on Monday, Jan. 11, 2010, with the subject: "Host your texts on Google in one day". Bring one or more XML texts to the workshop in the morning, and leave in the afternoon with a running Google installation of Canonical Text Services serving your texts to the internet.

For more information including how to apply for the workshop, please see http://chs75.harvard.edu/CTSWorkshop.html

Please feel free to forward this announcement to others who might be interested.

Neel Smith

The Institute of Archaeology at University College London and the CAA UK Chapter committee would like to invite you to submit a paper or poster presentation for the CAA UK Chapter conference 2010. The conference is to be held at the Institute of Archaeology, London on the 19th – 20th February 2010.

We welcome submissions on any topic within the sphere of archaeological computing, but this year we particularly encourage papers that address the following topical themes: [read more...]

The Association for Logic, Language and Computation (FoLLI) and
the ESSLLI Standing Committee invite proposals to host the 23-nd
European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information
(ESSLLI), to be held in August 2011.

http://www.folli.org/

*** The ESSLLI Summer School ***

ESSLLI is a summer school which takes place two weeks in the [read more...]

The Digital Curation in the Human Sciences workshop aims to act as a focus
for a fruitful dialogue among major stakeholders in human science research
infrastructures: policy makers and planners of the emerging European
digital infrastructures, computer science and information science
researchers in the field of digital libraries, e-repository, collections [read more...]

The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to research on-line research collaboration in [read more...]

The digital Classicist seminar on Friday 3 July: Roger Boyle & Kia Ng (Leeds)
‘Extracting the Hidden: Paper Watermark Location and Identification’. [read more...]

The digital Classicist seminar on Friday 26th June: Marco Büchler and Annette Loos (Leipzig) - Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato’s works. [read more...]

This two-day interdisciplinary conference organised by the project 'The Body and Mask in Ancient Theatre Space' funded by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. [read more...]

Seminar delivered at the Institute of Classical Studies as part of the Digital Classicist series on Friday, June 19th, 2009, Senate House, London. [read more...]

This seminar (subtitled "Agent-based modelling and Mediaeval warfare logistics", see abstract for links to audio and slides) took p [read more...]

Here is the link to the paper describing an application of Agent-based modelling to the Battle of Trafalgar

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=1231440 [read more...]

(Seminar delivered on Friday, June 5th, 2009, Senate House, London. Full abstract at http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2009-01bv.html . Audio and slideshow to be uploaded shortly.) [read more...]