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...]

I would like to draw attention to the following press announcement for a new internet portal:

Florence, 8 June 2009  [read more...]

We have just started a new group on Arts-Humanities.net with a focus upon social approaches or 'web 2' within the Digital Humanities. [read more...]

The aim of this group is to critically discuss and share thoughts about the use of social software applications, techniques, and principles within the Digital Humanities. [read more...]

The EpiDoc community has been developing protocols for the publication of inscriptions, papyri, and other documentary Classical texts in TEI-compliant XML: for details see the community website at htt [read more...]

On Tuesday June 2nd, the University of Greenwich is pleased to present an afternoon exploring the history of mathematics & computing in the appropriate setting of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenw [read more...]

What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production. [read more...]

The University of Luxembourg (Master’s in Contemporary European History) and the Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe (CVCE) are organising a Symposium to be held in October 2009, whose theme will be ‘Contemporary history in the digital age’. [read more...]

The University of Luxembourg (Master’s in Contemporary European History) and the Virtual Resource Centre for Knowledge about Europe (CVCE) are organising a Symposium to be held in October 2009, whos [read more...]

This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of
the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for the encoding of [read more...]

Libya

Libya [read more...]

The Etymology & Mythology of The Name Libya:

Interactive Libya Map

(www.temehu.com/libyamap/map_of_libya_index.htm): [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 27 April 2009

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Recent Posts:

We focused our attentions this week to the launch of the World Digital Library…and there is much to focus on…

World Digital Library: governance, charter, sustainability 26 April 2009

World Digital Library Launch: “9D” collection access… 25 April 2009 [read more...]

In 2009, George Mason University and the American Historical Association will offer the first Roy Rosenzweig Fellowship for Innovation in Digital History. This award was developed by friends and colleagues of Roy Rosenzweig (1950–2007), Mark and Barbara Fried Professor of History and New Media at George Mason University, to honor his life and work as a pioneer in the field of digital history. [read more...]

The European Social Science History Conference (ESSHC) has added Historical GIS to its History and Computing network to create a new network provisionally called "Historical Computing and GIS." It is hoped that that this new network will become a focus for Historical GIS research in Europe. [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 20 April 2009

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Recent Posts:

“Special focus on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)”: Canadian Museums Association National Conference 2010

Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries: CACAO Event (June, Italy)

Cornell: Mann Library’s HEARTH digital collection grows 60% [read more...]

For the past eight years, the Renaissance Society of America program has featured a number of sessions that document innovative ways in which computing technology is being incorporated into the scholarly activity of our community. [read more...]

Institutional repositories have become increasing important systems to store the rising amount of data produced by researchers. An institutional repository may be university wide or subject specific. They may serve the needs of a particular institution, a group of institutions, a nation, or an entire region. [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 6 April 2009

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Recent Posts:
World Digital Library Launch/UNESCO 5 April 2009
http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/2009/04/05/world-...

“The Future of Babylon”: World Monuments Fund Launches Conservation Plan
4 April 2009 [read more...]

Facing a changing research landscape and approaching its fourth anniversary on 1st April 2009, the AHRC has started a consultation process to determine future directions "as it takes an increasingly strategic approach to the support of arts and humanities research". [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 30 March 2009

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Recent Posts:
“Libraries Use Broadband to Serve High Need Communities”/IMLS Data Note
29 March 2009
http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/librar... [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 23 March 2009

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Recent Posts:
The Radical Reinvention Imperative: Academic Librarians in the New Economy/ACRL 21 March 2009
http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/the-ra... [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 16 March 2009

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Recent Posts:
Singapore Treaty on the Law of Trademarks Enters into Force 15 March 2009
http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/singap... [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 9 March 2009

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Recent Posts:
- Berlin Philharmonic Digital Concert Hall: Milestone in Live Performance Delivery, Archiving 8 March 2009

- Global “Plant Conservation Report” Released: Stewardship of Specimens, Indigenous Knowledge, DNA 8 March 2009 [read more...]

I was downloading the public radio app to my iPhone early this morning and tried WHYY, local to Philadelphia. Running was a delightful and well produced program exploring the nature of manuscripts, their preservation, and actions to identify and secure them from challenging environments. The institution focus was on the Hill Library in Minnesota. [read more...]

As you may have heard already, there is an interesting new initiative in the making to document a day in the digital humanities. I will take part in this, not only as it sounds like fun, but also in the hope that it will bring a quite diverse community a little closer together. Please do have a look at the announcement - and maybe join in yourself: [read more...]

What frontiers in digital history are we only beginning to explore, or have yet to explore? What promising but under-utilized tools, techniques, and ideas exist in digital media that can help us do better history? Join the American Association for History and Computing for a lively discussion about the frontiers in doing history with digital media. [read more...]

The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is
held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The
conference this year aims to promote discussion around dynamic networks
of knowledge and practice, new digital communities of knowledge and
practice, engaging users and digitisation of cultural heritage. [read more...]

Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project [read more...]

Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project

This major new project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and located in the Department of History at the University of Essex, in collaboration the UK Data Archive. In conjunction with key commercial partners, the project will create an enhanced census data collection for Great Britain covering the period 1851 to 1911. [read more...]

On November 18, I gave a presentation at the Supercomputing 2008 conference in Austin, Texas, USA, and announced the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Department of Energy Humanities High Performance Computing program. [read more...]

The reproduction of the European cultural heritage into digital resources is on its way. Among the various activities undertaken in this field, online catalogues of manuscrips have become an important research tool: Manuscripta Medievalia, for example, is a well established central catalogue in Germany. [read more...]

I am proposing to turn off all online resources for the digital arts and humanities. Really? Really! Well, almost. [read more...]

CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008 will be held at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008. The conference theme is “New Directions in Text Analysis.” There will also be a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing Early Material Culture”

Invited speakers on “New Directions in Text Analysis” are [read more...]

Course dates: 15 - 17 July 2009
Course fee: £140
Course tutor: Dr Mark Merry (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR) [read more...]

Course dates: 1) 4 - 7 November 2008, 2) 31 March - 3 April 2009
Course fee: £160
Course tutor: Dr Mark Merry (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR) [read more...]

Course dates: 1) 4 - 7 November 2008, 2) 31 March - 3 April 2009
Course fee: £160
Course tutor: Dr Mark Merry (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR) [read more...]

Amongst its many other roles, the internet has become an immense repository of useful information for historians. Library catalogues, bibliographies, articles, monographs and even primary sources are available to anyone who can find and use them. This course provides an intensive one-day introduction for beginners to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. [read more...]

Amongst its many other roles, the internet has become an immense repository of useful information for historians. Library catalogues, bibliographies, articles, monographs and even primary sources are available to anyone who can find and use them. This course provides an intensive one-day introduction for beginners to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. [read more...]

Hello!

I'm an artist working with digital media, specifically 3D CG software. I'm currently working on a project that uses online questionnaires to generate data that feeds into a 3D scene. At the most essential level, it's a live 3D graph. [read more...]

* When: Saturday 21st June 2008, 11am - 5pm
* Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
* Map: http://tinyurl.com/58br3u
* Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation/Workshop [read more...]

From the NEH: "The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. [read more...]

# When: Saturday 24th May 2008
# Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
# Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation/Workshop [read more...]

"Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" will be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008

"Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" will feature guest speakers: [read more...]

The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) in the Center for the Study of the American South seeks a Coordinator of Oral History Digital Initiatives to oversee the SOHP's participation in a three-year, cross-university collaboration focused on "the long civil rights movement," stretching back to the 1940s and continuing with the extension of struggles for social justice into new arenas after the 196 [read more...]

The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. [read more...]

A new Intute Limelight feature for Egyptology resources is now available. [read more...]

A very interesting blog post by Tom Scheinfeldt about how late 19th and early 20th century scholarship was dominated not by big ideas, but by methodological refinement and disciplinary consolidation. [read more...]

Damian Murphy has been a lecturer at the University of York since 2000. His interests are in Music Technology and Sound Design, focusing in particular on physical modelling, acoustics and recording studio techniques. [read more...]

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will undertake a major two-year study of the potential of text-mining tools for historical (and by extension, humanities) scholarship. Read more about this exciting project on Dan Cohen's blog. [read more...]