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: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania) 'From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal Lives'
Submitted by Richard on Tue, 08/05/2012 - 09:10 08/05/2012 08:54
08/05/2012 20:00
Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History
Hamish Maxwell-Stewart (Tasmania) 'From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal Lives'
Time: Tuesday, 20 March, 5:15 pm GMT+1
Venue: S261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk
"From Cradle to Antipodean Grave: Reconstructing 19th Century Criminal
Lives"
Between 1803 and 1853 some 59,000 men and 13,500 women were shipped to the
Australian penal colony of Van Diemen's Land as convicts. Upon landing a [read more...]
Location
Senate House
London WC1E 7HU
United Kingdom
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event: CeRch seminar, 13 March: Dissenting Academies Online. Digitization and Collaboration in the Study of Religious History: Rethinking the Dissenting Academies in Britain, 1660-1860
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 12/03/2012 - 12:34 13/03/2012 18:15
Simon Dixon and Rosemary Dixon, Queen Mary, University of London
Tuesday 13 March, 6.15pm, Anatomy Museum. Followed by drinks.
Register to attend at: http://www.eventbrite.com/event/2658496635
Do you tweet? Please use hashtag #cerchseminars [read more...]
Location
Anatomy Museum
London WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
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event: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Dan Cohen 'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'
Submitted by Richard on Mon, 05/03/2012 - 17:09 06/03/2012 17:15
06/03/2012 19:00
Venue: Rm 261 (Senate House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk (Please note this is a different room to last time)
Time: Tuesday, 6 March, 5.15 pm GMT
Dan Cohen (George Mason University)
'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'
Dan Cohen, Director of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media and an Associate Professor of History at George Mason University, will be presenting on his work on text mining Victorian literature. [read more...]
Location
Senate House
Malet Street
London WC1E 7HUUnited Kingdom
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event: CeRch seminar, 28th Feb: Building an Ontology of Creativity
Submitted by stuartdunn on Tue, 21/02/2012 - 18:13 28/02/2012 18:15
Creativity is a complex and multi-dimensional concept that encompasses
many related aspects, abilities, properties and behaviours and can be
viewed from many different perspectives. Difficulties in identifying a
comprehensive, widely-accepted definition of creativity have hindered
progress in computational creativity research as researchers have no
baseline to evaluate against or standards to aim towards. An important,
related issue is that of defining creativity in a machine-readable
format, such that a computational creativity system has a sufficient [read more...]
Location
Anatomy Theatre, Kings College London
United Kingdom
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Tags:
- Community Arts (including Art and Health)
- Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries
- Dance Studies
- Design
- Drama and Theatre Studies
- English Language and Literature
- History
- Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
- Media
- Music
- Philosophy
- Visual Arts
- computational
- creativity
- linked data
- ontology
- semantic web
event: IHR Digital History Seminar Spring Series
Submitted by Richard on Mon, 20/02/2012 - 17:11 21/02/2012 16:52
30/03/2012 21:00
IHR Digital History Seminar Spring Series
Tuesdays 5:15pm Senate House (various locations), University of London
21 February Magnus Huber (Giessen)
'The Old Bailey Corpus: Spoken English in the 18th and 19th Centuries'
Room ST276, Stewart House, second floor
6 March Dan Cohen (George Mason)
'Finding Meaning in a Million Victorian Books'
S261 (Senate House, second floor)
20 March Adam Farquhar(British Library), Andrew Prescott(KCL), Melissa Terras(UCL)
The Future of the Past (round table session)
S261 (Senate House, second floor) [read more...]
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event: Digital Humanities at King's College London: Talks and Lectures
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 10/01/2012 - 16:57 25/01/2012
To mark the merger of the Centre for e-Research with the Department of Digital Humanities and the appointment of Professor Andrew Prescott as Head of the
Department of Digital Humanities, a series of events will take place at King’s College London on Wednesday 25 January. Admission is free and all are welcome to all or any of the events.
Please help us in estimating numbers for catering by booking in advance at the
Eventbrite urls given below.
- Lynne Siemens, University of Victoria, 'Interdisciplinary Collaborations across [read more...]
Location
King's College London, Strand Campus
London
United Kingdom
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event: Trust and E-journals
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 14/12/2011 - 12:01 31/01/2012
Registration is now open for a DPC briefing day on the topic of ‘Trust and E-journals’ at the Wellcome Library, London on 31st January 2012: http://www.dpconline.org/events/details/39-trust?xref=39 [read more...]
Location
Wellcome Library
London
United Kingdom
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event: IHR Seminar in Digital History - 'Digital landscapes and Archaeology' Peter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology)
Submitted by sdenbo on Fri, 02/12/2011 - 15:03 06/12/2011 17:15
Institute of Historical Research Seminar in Digital History
'Digital landscapes and Archaeology' Peter Rauxloh (Museum of London Archaeology)
Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk
Time: Tuesday, December 6, 5.15 pm GMT
The central theme of the seminar series, is how digital technologies have enabled researchers into the past to gain new insights, new views and new perspectives on their subject which would otherwise be missed. This presentation will discuss such technologies in the context of two major projects carried out by MOLA, and will consider how digital technologies have effected the capture, manipulation and presentation of various types of data concentrating on the spatial. [read more...]
Location
Institute for Historical Research
Malet Street
LondonUnited Kingdom
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event: IHR Seminar in Digital History: Matt Thompson (University of York) 'From Which to Taste a Vicarious Holiday'; railway marketing, digital history and collaboration
Submitted by sdenbo on Mon, 31/10/2011 - 17:03 01/11/2011 17:15
Venue: ST276 (Stewart House, second floor) and streamed live on the web at historyspot.org.uk
Time: Tuesday, November 1, 5.15 pm GMT
Matt Thompson (York)
'From Which to Taste a Vicarious Holiday'; railway marketing, digital history and collaboration [read more...]
Location
Institute for Historical Research
Malet Street
LondonUnited Kingdom
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event: Natural History Museum and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Conference "Wallich and Indian Natural History: Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge"
Submitted by CAHR on Mon, 10/10/2011 - 14:55 06/12/2011 10:00
07/12/2011 18:00
For more information and to register, please visit: http://wallich.eventbrite.com
Conference Abstract:
This international, interdisciplinary conference will be held on the 6th and 7th December, 2011 at The Natural History Museum, London and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew on the general theme of South Asian natural history collections, with a special emphasis on those of the Danish botanist Nathaniel Wallich (1786–1854). Wallich is a major figure in the history and development of botany in the nineteenth century. As Superintendent of the Calcutta Botanic Garden between 1817 and 1846, he undertook botanical expeditions, described new plant species, collected thousands of plant specimens amassing a large herbarium, and commissioned local artists to draw beautiful botanical watercolours. His work has therefore been extremely influential in South Asian natural history research. [read more...]
Location
Natural History Museum, London (6th December) and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (7th December)
United Kingdom
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Tags:
- History
- Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
- botanical illustration
- botany
- british empire
- british india
- calcutta
- Digital
- digital archive
- digitising collections
- empire
- history of art
- history of science
- illustration
- kew
- kew gardens
- kolkata
- museum
- nathaniel wallich
- natural history
- natural history museum
- nepal
- royal botanic gardens kew
- science illustration
- wallich and indian natural history
event: The Digital Preservation Training Programme
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 23/09/2011 - 10:14 14/11/2011
16/11/2011
The DPTP is a modular training programme, built around themed sessions that have been developed to assist you in designing and implementing an approach to preservation that will work for your institution. Through a wide range of modules, the DPTP examines the need for policies, planning, strategies, standards and procedures in digital preservation, and teaches some of the most up-to-date methods, tools and concepts in the area. It covers these topics via a mixture of lectures, discussions, practical tasks and exercises, and a class project. [read more...]
Location
School of Oriental and Africa Studies (SOAS)
Thornhaugh Street Brunei Gallery, University of London
London WC1H 0XGUnited Kingdom
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event: Digital Humanities Centres And The New Humanities
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Wed, 31/08/2011 - 15:08 05/10/2011 18:00
The Centre for e-Research at King's College London is pleased to invite you to an evening talk given by Neil Fraistat, Professor of English and Director of the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) at the University of Maryland.
Abstract [read more...]
Location
Anatomy Museum
The Strand 6th Floor, King's Building
London WC2R 2LSUnited Kingdom
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Call for Papers - Wallich and Indian Natural History: Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge
CALL FOR PAPERS
Wallich and Indian Natural History:
Collection Dispersal and the Cultivation of Knowledge.
6th-7th December, 2011
The Natural History Museum, London, and The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Abstract Submission Deadline: 30th August, 2011 [read more...]
event: The Judaica Europeana Haskala (Jewish Enlightenment) database
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 05/08/2011 - 10:18 26/09/2011 18:00
26/09/2011 19:00
In association with Judaica Europeana and the British Library
This is the second part of a day event entitled 'Semantic MediaWiki: A tool for collaborative databases' led by New York City-based developer Yaron Koren. [read more...]
Location
The Anatomy Theatre & Museum
Strand
London WC2R 2LSUnited Kingdom
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event: 'Digital Resources for Palaeography' Symposium
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Thu, 04/08/2011 - 11:03 05/09/2011 09:30
05/09/2011 17:30
Monday 5th September 2011, 9.30am-5.30pm
King's College London, Council Room, Strand WC2R 2LS
The 'Digital Resource for Palaeography' (http://digipal.eu) at the
Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, is delighted
to announce that registration is now open for our one-day symposium
on digital resources for palaeography.
Attendance is free and open to all, but places are limited and so
registration is essential.
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To register, email your details as you would like them to appear [read more...]
Location
King's College London, Council Room, Strand
London WC2R 2LS
United Kingdom
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event: Summer School in Electronic Theatre
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Tue, 26/07/2011 - 12:43 01/08/2011
12/08/2011
SET – Studio for Electronic Theatre and University of Greenwich invite you to take part in the Summer School in Electronic Theatre which will take place in London from 1 to 12 August 2011.
The results of the workshop will be presented at Tate Britain in November! [read more...]
Location
Studio for Electronic Theatre, University of Greenwich
London
United Kingdom
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event: EpiDoc Training Workshop
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Fri, 15/07/2011 - 13:54 05/09/2011
08/09/2011
An EpiDoc training workshop will be offered by the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London, and the Institute for Classical Studies in September this year. The workshop is free of charge and open to all, but spaces are limited and registration as soon as possible is essential. [read more...]
Location
Institute of Classical Studies, Senate House
London WC1E 7HU
United Kingdom
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event: London Digital Humanities Group: Following the Money - 2 June 2011
Submitted by simonqmul on Mon, 23/05/2011 - 08:44 02/06/2011 17:01
The next meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place at Dr Williams's Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR on Thursday 2 June at 5pm. The meeting will take the form of a panel discussion on the topic of:
'Following the Money: Funding Digital Humanities Projects in a Period of Austerity'. [read more...]
Location
Dr Williams's Library
14 Gordon Square
London WC1H 0ARUnited Kingdom
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Tags:
- Archaeology
- Architecture: History, Theory & Practice
- Classics and Ancient History
- Community Arts (including Art and Health)
- Cultural Policy, Arts management and the creative industries
- Dance Studies
- Design
- Drama and Theatre Studies
- English Language and Literature
- History
- Law
- Librarianship, Information & Museum Studies
- Linguistics
- Media
- Modern Languages
- Music
- Philosophy
- Theology, Divinity and Religious Studies
- Visual Arts
- funding
- projects
event: Performing Arts Digital Collections for the New Millennium International Workshop
Submitted by raffaellasantucci on Wed, 18/05/2011 - 17:58 09/06/2011 09:00
10/06/2011 18:00
Performing Arts Digital Collections for the New Millennium International Workshop
Register now: http://tinyurl.com/3tccl8l
Performing Arts Digital Collections for the New Millennium is the first in a series of international workshops planned by the ECLAP Project.
This event will take place in Brussels on the 9th and 10th of June, 2011, with the support of La Bellone Maison du Spectacle. [read more...]
Location
9-10 June 2011, La Bellone – Maison Du Spectacle
Rue de Flandre 46,
Bruxelles B-1000Belgium
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job: Technical Project Officer (GIS / Web Mapping Developer)
Submitted by Valentina Asciutti on Mon, 28/02/2011 - 16:07Application Deadline:
11/03/2011
Technical Project Officer (GIS / Web Mapping Developer)
(Full-time, fixed term 2 years - Grade 6)
The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) wishes to recruit a developer specialising in GIS & web-based mapping to work with and support the CCH development team and subject discipline specialists across a range of research projects, many of which will involve spatial data and map-based visualisation. [read more...]
