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...]

JISC and ARMA will be jointly hosting a free one-day event on the topic of repositories and Current Research Information Systems at the Rose Bowl, Leeds Metropolitan University on Friday 7th May 2010. [read more...]

• Explore the impact of the large scale digitisation of newspapers

• Consider the effect that this has had on research and researchers

• Question the implied changes to research methodologies [read more...]

Held at the School of Advanced Study and organised by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Memory, this Summer School consists of a series of seminars, lectures and workshops on a broad range of subjects related to the relationship between memory and technology. The sessions will be taught by a team of internationally renowned scholars and range from experimental early flying to colonial memories in film, to photography and workshops on digital archives. [read more...]

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...]

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 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...]

A few places are available for the following free workshop on Tuesday 23rd March.

The London Museums Hub Information and Records Management Project is pleased to offer a series of workshops on different aspects of information management. The workshops are designed to take participants
through the stages involved in implementing information polices, and are based on the Information Management Toolkit released in January 2010 (see: http://www.collectionslink.org.uk/Manage_Info)

The training is free to museum staff (paid and unpaid) working in London. [read more...]

The second 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 23 March at 5pm. Ian Gregory and David Cooper (Lancaster University) will talk about: [read more...]

‘Textual, Cartographical & Digital Space: The Literary GIS’

Get real. Stay relevant. The reality of the current economic climate means that it's imperative to provide pertinent services, utilise the most appropriate tools, and explore alternative approaches, regardless of your information environment. Even if you’re managing information outside a traditional library setting - as web designer, content evaluator, portal creator, systems professional or independent researcher - you must continue to offer services that are relevant and cost-efficient. [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...]

Talk given by Tim Hitchcock (University of Hertfordshire) and Robert Shoemaker (University of Sheffield) at the first meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group at Queen Mary, University of London on Tuesday 19 January 2010. The first speaker heard is Robert Shoemaker.

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...]

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...]

The benefits of online access to scholarly journal content are now taken for granted but there are threats to continuity of such access. Clarity is needed on who is doing what, what has been agreed, and what mechanisms exist for continued access, with shared responsibility for the material support and sustainability of archiving and access schemes. [read more...]

The 18th annual GIS Research UK (GISRUK) conference will be held at UCL, from Wednesday 14 April to Friday 16 April 2009. [read more...]

"There’s so much [to preserve / conserve / digitize] … people need skills in how you select the right materials … how you make the decisions and what you have to bear in mind" Focus group research into preservation training needs, June 2009. [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...]

Managing projects is now a core role for many cultural and heritage professionals but it can seem a daunting prospect. This one day course, delivered by established heritage professional, Elizabeth Oxborrow-Cowen, introduces delegates to the fundamental concepts and tools to enable them to start managing small projects effectively and confidently.

The day will cover:
· What is a project?

Defining when something is or is not a project.

· How to define success for your project [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...]

Hear a dialogue between contemporary digital practice and historical collections within the world of digital and computer-generated art and design. Speakers include artists Frieder Nake and writer Edward Shanken, with theorists Charlie Gere and Beryl Graham. There will be an in-conversation between Paul Brown and his son Daniel Brown. [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...]

The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is a university-wide initiative, funded by the Provost’s Strategic Development Fund, to create a unique environment within UCL where the full potential of the arts and humanities to challenge and inspire technology research is realised. It aims to bring together researchers interested in the application of digital technologies to research problems in the arts and humanities and cultural heritage sectors. The Centre Co-ordinator will play a key role in helping to establish this new Centre.

Duties and Responsibilities [read more...]

• Teaching on the graduate programmes offered in electronic communication and publishing in these areas: Electronic Publishing, Legal and Social Aspects of electronic publishing and XML.

• Assessment and examination of modules taught by the post holder and second marking or moderation of other modules.

• Supervision and assessment of MA dissertations.

• Tutorial support for graduate students studying Electronic Communication and Publishing and Publishing.

• Academic administration in support of teaching activities. [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 London Digital Humanities Group

'Connected Histories: New Methodologies for Searching Distributed Electronic Sources'

Tim Hitchcock (Hertfordshire) and Bob Shoemaker (Sheffield) [read more...]