Digital Historian is a group dedicated to the discussion of all issues relating to the use of technology for historical scholarship. It features a series of interviews with practitioners who are actively involved in this field and users are encouraged to comment on these postings and all other material. Users may wish to begin by contributing to a working paper entitled Tools and Methods for Historical Research which we hope will become the basis of a community resource.
The Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities (Day of DH) is a project looking at a day in the work life of people involved in humanities computing. [read more...]
The HESTIA project team are pleased to announce a colloquium on the subject of ‘New worlds out of old texts: interrogating new techniques for the spatial analysis of ancient narratives’, which will take place at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies in Oxford on 1-3 July 2010. [read more...]
• Explore the impact of the large scale digitisation of newspapers
• Consider the effect that this has had on research and researchers
• Question the implied changes to research methodologies [read more...]
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...]
Get real. Stay relevant. The reality of the current economic climate means that it's imperative to provide pertinent services, utilise the most appropriate tools, and explore alternative approaches, regardless of your information environment. Even if you’re managing information outside a traditional library setting - as web designer, content evaluator, portal creator, systems professional or independent researcher - you must continue to offer services that are relevant and cost-efficient. [read more...]
‘Practical Approaches to Electronic Records: the Academy and Beyond’, Friday, May 21, 2010, University of Dundee
Dedicated to Digital Cultural Heritage and Digital Libraries
November 8 - 13th, 2010
Limassol, Cyprus
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...]
Barbara Steveni conceived and co-founded the Artist Placement Group (APG), in London in 1966. Steveni’s innovative concept, based on a more holistic and intuitive view of Art than was current at the time, would take another 20 years to enter the mainstream. APG, later renamed O+I, acted as the precursor to current notions of ‘Artist in Residence’ and Public Art programmes. [read more...]
ICDEM 2010: Second International Conference on Data Engineering and Management, Organized by National Institute of Informatics-Japan and Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, India. 29-31/July/2010 [read more...]
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...]
"There’s so much [to preserve / conserve / digitize] … people need skills in how you select the right materials … how you make the decisions and what you have to bear in mind" Focus group research into preservation training needs, June 2009. [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
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
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...]
| Publication Type | Book | |
| Year of Publication | 2008 | |
| Authors / Editors | Greengrass, Mark; Hughes, Lorna | |
| Series Title | Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities | |
| Volume | 1 | |
| Number of Pages | 276 | |
| URL | http://www.ashgate.com/digitalresearch |
The first meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place in the Lock-keepers Cottage, Mile End Campus, Queen Mary, University of London on Tuesday 19 January 2010 at 5pm. Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) and Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield), the directors of the Old Bailey Proceedings Online, will talk about:
Connected Histories: New Methodologies for Searching Distributed Electronic Sources [read more...]
An opportunity has arisen for an individual to be primarily responsible for the day-to-day running of a one-year pilot project to develop the online delivery of the Institute of Historical Research's (IHR) national research training and seminar programmes. You will undertake user consultation, liaise with the project's web developers, commission and write supporting material for publication online, and promote the new services to historians both within and outside the higher education sector. [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...]
It is only a year since the Institute of Documentology and Scholarly Editing (IDE ) undertook an initiative entitled “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age”. Yet its first results have already been written up and published: in July 2009, the anthology “Codicology and Palaeography in the Digital Age” was launched at an international symposium in Munich. [read more...]
The College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Maryland, College Park, invites applications for two tenure-track positions in Digital Humanities, Media and Cultures at the rank of Assistant Professor or beginning Associate Professor to start August 15, 2010. Successful applicants will have their tenure homes in one or more of the following departments: American Studies, Art Studio, Communication, or Women's Studies. See below for preferred areas of expertise in each field. [read more...]
The Thomas Institute at the University of Cologne (Germany) is looking for two or more research associates in a newly funded project "Digital Averroes Research Environment" (DARE). Please see the complete announcement at http://www.dare.uni-koeln.de/stellen/index.php and note that German language skills (beyond understanding the job advertisement) are not a precondition.
The London Digital Humanities Group
'Connected Histories: New Methodologies for Searching Distributed Electronic Sources'
Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire) and Bob Shoemaker (Sheffield) [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...]
A one day seminar was held at Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 14 October to discuss Ireland’s contributions to the Digital Humanities and the possible futures of the field within Ireland. http://dho.ie/node/634 The seminar, held in a skilfully restored 19th Century Anatomy lecture theatre, was attended by representatives from government, the Irish Research Council (IRCHSS), universities, and industry (Microsoft, IBM, Intel). The keynote speaker was Professor Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s External Research and former head of the UK’s eScience Core Programme. [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).
Digital history spans disciplines and can take many forms. New modes of
publication, new methods for doing research, and new channels of
communication are making historical research richer, more relevant and
more widely accessible. Many applications of computer based research and
publication are natural extensions of the established techniques for
researching and writing history. Others are consciously
experimental. Although computer technology started to revolutionize
the discipline of history many decades ago, genres and formats for [read more...]
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Dept I (Prof. Dr. Juergen Renn), announces a two-year doctoral scholarship (with a one-year renewal option) for an outstanding graduate student. [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...]
CALL FOR PAPERS:
Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, 1500 – 1700 [read more...]
An interesting Job opening for those of you speaking German at the Bavarian State Library in Munich, one of Germany's leading research/digital libraries. [read more...]
Stanford French professor Dan Edelstein recently announced the launch of a digital archive of enlightenment texts to help scholars better research and understand the "dark side" of the enlightenment. [read more...]
The JISC Virtual Research Environment (VRE) III kick-off meeting was held at the University of Leicester 8-9 July 2009. [read more...]
Proposals for complete sessions and individual presentations are currently being accepted for the Third International MARGOT Conference (Moyen Age et Renaissance Groupe de recherches – Ordinateurs e [read more...]
The Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) are taking forward a joint £8.1m programme entitled Science and Heritage to support [read more...]