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Data Quality Assurance Assistant Post at The National Archives

Valentina Asciutti — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 11:55:21 +0000

JOB DESCRIPTION

Job title: Data Quality Assurance Assistant

Department: Web Continuity

Reports to: Government Data Manager

Salary: £20,450 + excellent benefits

Job purpose:

You will play an important role in a dynamic team supporting the government’s initiative to encourage departments to publish more of its non-personal data to facilitate the re-use of public sector information. [read more...]

The London Digital Humanities Group

InterFace 2010: Humanities and Technologies

Torsten Reimer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:14:53 +0000

InterFace is a new type of annual non-profit event. Based on the format of last year's successful forum at the University of Southampton, this year follows in the same footsteps: part conference, part forum, part networking opportunity. The conference aims to bring PhD students, early postdocs and other early researchers together from the fields of Technologies and the Humanities in order to foster cutting-edge collaboration. Delegates can also expect to receive illuminating talks from experts, presentations on successful interdisciplinary projects and on how to succeed as academics. [read more...]

InterFace 2010: Humanities and Technologies - 2nd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology

Torsten Reimer — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 10:14:52 +0000

Start: 15/07/2010

End: 16/07/2010

Omeka Plugin Rush 2010

wanderingwill — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:45:51 +0000

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...]

The London Digital Humanities Group

Networking is the best way to exploit research in the humanities

Daisy Abbott — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:53:04 +0000

AHRC's statement here:
http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News/Latest/Pages/innovativeresearch.aspx

Interesting stuff, although I notice that none of their sources are actually referenced or linked to, instead simply referred to as 'the study' or 'recent research'. Tut tut.

e-monograph: "The False-Door: dissolution and becoming in Roman wall-painting".

Maurice Owen — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:16:29 +0000

"The False-Door: dissolution and becoming in Roman wall-painting" is an e-monograph by Maurice Owen (Southampton Solent University), accessible via this URL:

http://creadm.solent.ac.uk/custom/rwpainting/cover/index.htm...

It examines the impact that the discovery of Pompeii and Herculaneum had on the modern world - from Neoclassicism to Disaster movies and unpacks the numerous modern filters through which we view this period in antiquity. [read more...]

The London Digital Humanities Group

Call for Projects: Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship

Jillian OConnor — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:29:25 +0000

Broadening the Digital Humanities: The Vectors-IML/UC-HRI Summer Institute on Multimodal Scholarship Summer 2010 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship July 19-August 12, 2010 [read more...]