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.
job: Collections Online Project Officer (Imperial War Museum)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 25/08/2010 - 17:44Application Deadline:
02/09/2010
6 month fixed term contract.
Salary: circa £30,000 pro rata. [read more...]
MA in Digital Asset Management (MADAM)
New MA in Digital Asset Management
King’s has launched an innovative postgraduate programme to respond to the demand for digitally literate professionals to work in libraries, archives, cultural heritage institutions and business enterprises by equipping students with a range of strategic, technical and practical skills to provide direction and leadership in this area. [read more...]
job: Imperial War Museum: Multimedia Manager
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 14:59Application Deadline:
11/08/2010
Great new job opportunity at the Imperial War Museum - they are looking for a Multimedia Manager to join the New Media Department. You can find more details on the website: http://www.iwm.org.uk/server/show/nav.1959
Closing date: Noon, Wednesday 11 August 2010.
Salary: £39,544 to £45,000 per annum
job: John Gray Centre Development Officer
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 26/07/2010 - 14:52Application Deadline:
08/08/2010
Based initially at Library Headquarters, Haddington
Temporary 5 year post
Salary £24,271-£27,392 pa (£13.30-£15.01 per hour) [read more...]
event: TEI 2010
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 16:20 11/11/2010
14/11/2010
Registration for the 2010 TEI Conference, Members Meeting, and Workshops is now open at http://www.tei-shop.org/. The meeting will take place November 11-14 at the University of Zadar, Zadar Croatia. Pre-conference Workshops will be held November 8-10. See the conference website: http://ling.unizd.hr/%7Etei2010/
The theme of the conference is “TEI Applied: Digital Texts and Language Resources,” though papers and posters on other subjects are also included. [read more...]
Location
Zadar
Croatia
London Lives Unconference III
And I'm back with the afternoon session. These panels are more traditional 20 minute papers. I'm attending Panel two which starts with Simon Dixon 'The Quakers of St Dionis Backchurch, 1690-1714: A Micro Study'. The London Lives website has allowed Dixon to extend earlier research on Quakers, and to improve the understanding of Friends in eighteenth-century London, which he says is under studied and not well understood. The general view of Quakers is that they intentionally kept themselves apart from the rest of society through endogamous marriage and quietism. [read more...]
London Lives Unconference II
The next session is eight short (8 minute!) presentations, in the spirit of the 'un'conference. Tim kept questions and Bob's answers to 30 seconds at the end of the last session, in order to keep things lively (and utilized a timer with a virtual bell to keep everyone honest). [read more...]
London Lives Unconference
I'm going to be doing a bit of live blogging from the London Lives Unconference which is happening today at the University of Hertfordshire, to celebrate the lauch of the London Lives website: http://www.londonlives.org/. This is of course all done quickly and on the fly, so please excuse any typos and my apologies to any of the speakers who are under-represented or even misrepresented. [read more...]
Manifesto for the Digital Humanities,
A manifesto on Digital Humanities has just been published. It was written by participants of THATCamp Paris (May 2010). It is available in several languages, including English.
The Manifesto begins as follows:
Context
We, professionals or observers of the digital humanities (humanités numériques) came together in Paris for THATCamp on May 18th and 19th, 2010.
Over the course of these two days, we discussed, exchanged, and collectively reflected upon what the digital humanities are, and tried to imagine and invent what they could become. [read more...]
event: Authenticity, Forensics, Materiality, Virtuality and Emulation Advances in the curatorship of personal digital archives
Submitted by garethknight on Fri, 25/06/2010 - 15:41 05/07/2010 10:00
Synopsis
Recently there have been some significant and exciting advances in the curation of personal digital archives. Seemingly distinct aspects of computing have come together to yield a vision of future curation and research in the archival context. A combination of novel technologies and processes are making it possible to offer scholars a rich and evocative experience of emulated and virtual environments, both locally and remotely. [read more...]
Location
96 Euston Road
London NW1 2DBUnited Kingdom
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event: Free workshop: community collections 27 July Aberystwyth
Submitted by AlunEdwards on Thu, 24/06/2010 - 11:25 27/07/2010 10:10
27/07/2010 17:00
Free RunCoCo/Culturenet Cymru workshop: How to Run a Community Collection Online will take place on Tues 27 July 2010 at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth. [read more...]
Location
National Library of Wales
Aberystwyth SY23 3BUUnited Kingdom
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event: Workshop "Persons - Data - Repositories"
Submitted by torstenroeder on Thu, 17/06/2010 - 14:49 27/09/2010 12:00
29/09/2010 12:00
The workshop „Persons – Data – Repositories“ focuses on biographic research in digital science environments. Biographies of historical persons and person information are the central points of interest. This is closely connected to the requirement of making accessible and connecting the continously growing and diffusely dispersed databases of related information. [read more...]
Location
Jägerstraße 22/23 Einstein-Saal / Leibniz-Saal
Berlin 10117Germany
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biblio: Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 16/06/2010 - 17:06
"Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity",
Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities, vol. 7, Farnham, pp. 230, 2010.
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biblio: EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in XML for Publication and Interchange
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 04/06/2010 - 15:32
"EpiDoc: Epigraphic Documents in XML for Publication and Interchange",
Latin on Stone: Epigraphic Research and Electronic Archives: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield), pp. xvii + 174, 2010.
event: TEI @ Oxford Summer School 2010
Submitted by Torsten Reimer on Wed, 26/05/2010 - 10:48 12/07/2010 09:30
14/07/2010 17:30
The TEI @ Oxford Summer School is a three day course introducing the recommendations of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) for encoding of digital text. It combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of the TEI Recommendations for the encoding of digital text with practical workshops on related technologies. It includes an introduction to mark-up, explanations of the TEI Guidelines, and approaches to publishing TEI texts. Practical exercises expose you hands-on experience of a wide range of TEI customisation, editing, and publication. [read more...]
Location
Oxford
United Kingdom
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event: Towards a new edition of the scholia of Euripides
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 19/05/2010 - 12:14 28/05/2010 14:10
Professor Donald Mastronarde, Berkeley Classics/GreekKeys, will give a talk at 2.15 pm on Friday 28 May in the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies 66 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3LU. His topic is:
"Towards a new edition of the scholia of Euripides"
in which he will lay out some of the problems and some preliminary results for scholia on Orestes 1-500.
All are welcome. The new edition is a born-digital edition. A beta version of the online open-access digital edition of the scholia of Euripides is available at: http://EuripidesScholia.org [read more...]
Location
66 St Giles' Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies
Oxford OX1 3LUUnited Kingdom
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job: Summer internship at the British Library
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 18/05/2010 - 16:15Application Deadline:
26/05/2010
British Library summer internship 2010 (two months)
The British Library has started digitising its medieval and earlier manuscript collections as part of its plans to make them all available to everyone online. The first volumes to be digitised are drawn from the Greek manuscript collections. [read more...]
event: ESU "Culture & Technology"
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 18/05/2010 - 10:28 26/07/2010 08:00
30/07/2010 19:30
ESU "Culture & Technology", 26 - 30 July 2010
University of Leipzig - http://www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU/
Registration for the European Summer School, Culture & Technology, is now open. Supported by the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing the Summer School will take place at Leipzig University, Germany, from the 26th to the 30th of July. [read more...]
Location
Leipzig University
LeipzigGermany
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job: AHRC Collaborative Studenthsip: University of Nottingham
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 07/05/2010 - 15:18Application Deadline:
04/06/2010
AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award
PhD Studentship
School of Geography, University of Nottingham and the Science Museum
‘British Small Craft’: the cultural geographies of mid twentieth century technology and display
Supervisors: Prof David Matless and Prof Mike Heffernan (University of Nottingham), Dr Tim Boon and David Rooney (Science Museum) [read more...]
event: EpiDoc training workshop
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 06/05/2010 - 14:16 28/06/2010
01/07/2010
The Summer 2010 EpiDoc training workshop will now take place in London, at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, from June 28 – July 1. Thanks to the generosity of the Association Internationale d’Épigraphie Grecque et Latine (AIEGL) there €500 available for bursaries to help students attend this event. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL) and James Cowey (Heidelberg). There will be no charge to attend this workshop.
From the workshop description: [read more...]
Location
26-29 Drury Lane Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London
London WC2B 5RLUnited Kingdom
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