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...]

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...]

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).

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

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...]

www.isea2009.org [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...]

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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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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“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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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...]