The London Digital Humanities Group
Queen Mary, University of London
The London Digital Humanities Group is a group of early-career scholars involved in the creation of digital resources for the arts and humanities. It aims to provide a forum in which to discuss how new digital technologies (the world-wide web, geographic information systems, text-analytical software, wiki-based peer collaborations, multimedia environments, to name a few) can open new avenues of research in the arts and humanities. The group will also serve a practical function by enabling its members to discuss the planning, funding, progress, and afterlife of a range of digital projects, such as the creation of online databases, electronic editions, and topographical resources. Undertaking research in this rapidly changing area can be daunting; we hope the group will provide its members with an opportunity to share their experiences and support each other’s projects.
We will meet around twice each semester to hear a seminar-like presentation about a given project, followed by questions and discussion. Information about each project will be circulated in advance of the meeting. Anyone with an interest in digital humanities is welcome to attend. We hope to attract participants from across a range of disciplines and involved in the different aspects of digital humanities production (content development, web design, database programming, etc). Postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers currently involved in implementing digital projects are particularly welcome.
If you are interested in joining the group please contact the convenors. It would be helpful if you could outline your area of interest, and indicate if you are involved in a digital project you would like to present to the group.
Convenors: Rosemary Dixon, Simon Dixon, Inga Jones, and Kyle Roberts
Dr Williams’s Centre for Dissenting Studies
Queen Mary, University of London
The London Digital Humanities Group is supported by the Graduate School, Queen Mary, University of London.
event: JPEG 2000 for the practitioner - a one-day seminar
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 27/08/2010 - 11:05 16/11/2010 09:00
16/11/2010 17:00
A free seminar to explore and examine the use of JPEG 2000 in the cultural heritage industry will be held at the Wellcome Trust. The seminar will include specific case studies of JPEG 2000 use. It will explain technical issues that have an impact on practical implementation of the format, and explore the context of how and why organisations may choose to use JPEG 2000. Although the seminar will have an emphasis on digitisation and digital libraries, the papers will be relevent to a range of research and creative industries. Places are limited to 80 [read more...]
Location
Wellcome Trust
215 Euston Road
LondonUnited Kingdom
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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...]
event: Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) 2010
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 24/08/2010 - 16:55 10/11/2010
11/11/2010
*** Computers and the History of Art (CHArt) www.chart.ac.uk ***
TECHNOLOGY AND ‘THE DEATH OF ART HISTORY’
CHArt 26th Annual Conference
Wednesday 10 - Thursday 11 November 2010
London, The British Computer Society, First Floor, Davidson Building, 5
Southampton Street, London WC2E 7HA
In recent decades the traditional practices of Art History have come
increasingly under attack. This has led to changes so extreme that some have
talked of the 'death of Art History'.
The CHArt 2010 Conference will explore the role of digital technologies in the [read more...]
Location
The British Computer Society
5 Southampton Street
London WC2E 7HAUnited Kingdom
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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...]
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
job: New Work Network - Director
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 15:03Application Deadline:
26/07/2011
New Work Network is recruiting a Director.
Up to £35k per annum (dependent on experience), 37.5 hours/week (London based)
http://www.newworknetwork.org.uk/modules/opportunities/viewo...
New Work Network (NWN) is a national membership organisation, supporting live and interdisciplinary arts practices by providing professional development via networking, exchange and collaboration. [read more...]
job: Project Manager: Museology (British Museum)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 14:39Application Deadline:
26/07/2011
To project manage the curatorial programme and interpretive planning and museography processes within the British Museum’s input to the development of the new Zayed National Museum (ZNM), Abu Dhabi, from brief stage to closure and evaluation.
Ref: 77155W
Salary: £37,084 per annum
Contract: Fixed Term, 23 months
Department: ZNM Project
Application deadline: 12 noon, 26 July 2010
job: Programme Manager - British Museum
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 22/07/2010 - 14:37Application Deadline:
26/07/2011
To project manage the curatorial programme and interpretive planning and museography processes within the British Museum’s input to the development of the new Zayed National Museum (ZNM), Abu Dhabi, from brief stage to closure and evaluation.
Ref: 77156W
Salary: £43,285 per annum
Contract: Fixed term, 23 months
Department: ZNM Project
Application deadline: 12 noon, 26 July 2010
job: Assistant Archivist - Royal Opera House
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 01/07/2010 - 16:56Application Deadline:
16/07/2010
The Royal Opera House is the major lyric arts theatre in the United Kingdom,
enjoying an international reputation for excellence. The Royal Opera House
Collections contain materials covering the history of the three theatres that have stood on the site since 1732. The department is involved in a full range of activities to ensure the preservation of the Collections and to make them accessible to a wide audience. [read more...]
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference - Call for Participation
Closing Date:
30/06/2010
MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
Call for Participation
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care
Conference
including the
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`
Digital Media Competition
at Birkbeck, University of London
September 23rd and 24th 2010
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference: [read more...]
event: Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference
Submitted by cjguest on Sun, 27/06/2010 - 17:17 23/06/2010 09:00
24/06/2010 18:00
MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care
Conference
including the
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour`
Digital Media Competition
at Birkbeck, University of London
September 23rd and 24th 2010
Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference: [read more...]
Location
London
United Kingdom
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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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job: Lecturers in Culture, Digital Humanities and Creative Industries
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 18/06/2010 - 13:41Application Deadline:
02/07/2010
As a result of a significant development of teaching and research in the new Creative Arts hub of the School of Arts and Humanities we are making five new appointments linked to our research excellence and our internationally successful and innovative MA programmes. [read more...]
event: Collect: The Collections Management Exhibition
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 07/06/2010 - 16:01 28/06/2010 10:00
28/06/2010 16:00
Collect is a free trade fair highlighting the best in current practice, services and technologies for Collections Management.
The day will give you the chance to meet and talk with some of the sector's leading suppliers of cutting edge prodcuts and services. It will also be an opportunity to network with fellow museum, library and archive professionals and discuss current issues in Collections Management.
Find out more by visiting our dedicated Collect 2010 website at www.collect2010.org.uk
Who should attend? [read more...]
Location
Kingsway Hall Hotel
London WC2B 5BXUnited 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...]
Case Notes in digital preservation: "Cabinet Papers: Policy as a Measure of Commitment"
The Digital Preservation Coalition, with ULCC and Portico, with the support of the National Archives and sponsorship from JISC is pleased to announce the release of the second in our series of Digital Preservation Case Notes: http://www.dpconline.org/advice/case-notes/index.html [read more...]
Win £150 `Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour` Digital Media Competition
MaMSIE (Mapping Maternal Subjectivities, Identities and Ethics)
`Maternal Subjectivities: Care and Labour` Digital Media Competition
As part of the Motherhood, Servitude and the Delegation of Care Conference, MaMSIE (http://mamsie.wikispaces.com/ ) are delighted to launch a Digital Media Competition. [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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event: GWLA Data Curation Webinar: What kinds of data are libraries managing, how are they doing it and with what staff?
Submitted by garethknight on Thu, 06/05/2010 - 11:34 01/06/2010 12:00
The Greater Western Library Alliance is providing a series of three free webinars on the topic of data curation. The webinars will be conducted using “Wimba” webinar software. No pre-registration is necessary. The webinar login address is: http://67.202.209.36/index.html.pl?launcherlink=1&credential.... At the login page, select “Participant”. If you haven’t accessed Wimba before, you’ll need to run the “Wizard” setup (even if you have entered Wimba before, it’s recommend to run the “Wizard”). [read more...]
