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...]

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...]

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 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...]

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...]

Textual scholars - particularly those who are editing letters or working with correspondence, but others as well - may be interested to participate in the USER project. [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.

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

I attended the ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ workshop on Thursday (25 September) organised by the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. http://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/toolscfp.htm There were presentation by many leading figures of electronic textual editing from the US, Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, and Britain. The workshop was organised to discuss the movement towards online collaborative tools for scholarly editing and the problems and opportunities associated with this. [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 prospective postholder is expected to teach courses in German linguistics or literary studies as well as humanities computing at undergraduate and graduate level (Bachelor/Master of Arts Germanistik, Master of Arts Linguistic and Literary Computing, teaching degrees).

The postholder must have research interests and a proven track record of excellent research in at least two of the following areas:

* Text technology
* History and theory of literature and media
* Text linguistics [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...]

TILE: Text-Image Linking Environment is pleased to announce the launch of its public blog and informational site:

http://tileproject.org [read more...]

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Music, Literature, Illustration: Collaboration and networks in English manuscript culture, 1500 – 1700 [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 Digital Classicist and the ICD are inviting both students and established researchers involved in the application of the digital humanities to the study of the ancient world to come and introduce [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...]

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.

The 2009 Annual Meeting of the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium will be held at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

The program, organized around the theme "text encoding in the era of mass digitization", will feature keynote lectures, parallel sessions, the annual TEI business meeting, a poster session/tools demonstration and slam, and special interest group (SIG) meetings.

Dear all: this survey is aimed at any researchers using geogrpahic data of any kind, not only geographers. Feedback from any users of geodata services would be welcomed.

**** AGILE Initiative - Higher Education Geospatial Data Access Survey****

Are you are a teacher, lecturer or researcher at a Higher Education Institute in Europe? [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...]

Following Kyoto, Berlin and Galway, the next public session of the TEI Technical Council will be held in Lyon.

The Council is the elected committee responsible for technical development and [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...]

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

CALLAS Project
http://www.callas-newmedia.eu/

The CALLAS Integrated Project aims to design and to develop a multimodal architecture which will include emotional aspects in order to support applications in the new media business scenario with an “ambient intelligence” paradigm. [read more...]

Die Erschließung der schriftlichen Überlieferung in philologisch und historisch zuverlässigen, kritischen Editionen gehört zu den grundlegenden und wesentlichen Aufgaben der geistes­wissenschaftlichen Diziplinen. Im gegenwärtigen Medienwandel gewinnen die aufbereiteten Texte eine neue Sichtbarkeit und Zugänglichkeit. [read more...]

The first The Marriage of Mercury and Philology conference was held at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh on March 25-27, 2008. For more information on this conference, see: [read more...]

• Event website
• Wiki page, including programme and papers