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...]

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...]

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 1938 British Empire Exhibition was a stunning display of architectural achievement and a reflection of the life and culture of Glasgow, the UK and the Commonwealth. It incorporated over 100 innovative buildings, including the world famous Tait’s Tower and attracted over 12.5million people to Bellahouston Park, Glasgow over its six month run. This last public showcase of the Empire was of huge international significance and continues to be relevant to the study of British social and industrial history and modernist architecture. [read more...]

Applications are invited for a full-time 12 month fixed term post of
Applications Developer, available immediately. ADS has been awarded funding
by AHRC to migrate its digital archive system to a fedora-based repository,
and the post holder will be required to take the Java programming lead for
this project. Applicants should have a computing or software engineering
qualification, and a high level of java programming expertise. Experience
with Oracle and the implementation and configuration of fedora would be an
advantage. [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...]

Applications are invited for a fifteen-month, fixed term contract position of IT Manager to the DHO. The DHO is designing, constructing and hosting an electronic access portal and research resource for the humanities. Funded under Cycle 4 of PRTLI, the RIA and its partners are building a joint national platform for the coordination and dissemination of humanities research, teaching and training at an all-island level. The key infrastructural element of the consortium is the Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO).

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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...]

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 EU-funded DARIAH project is now starting work on a major
deliverable, forming a key part of its objective to define the
infrastructure needed to support European digital research in the arts
and humanities for the next decade. The *TEI demonstrator* will
showcase an open hosting service for richly encoded documents following
the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative.

The service brings together ideas from several DARIAH partners. It will
combine case studies and examples of best practice and build a freely [read more...]

A meeting was held at King's College, London, on 26th and 27th October 2009, between representatives of the following networks, infrastructure projects, and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Arts and Humanities: [read more...]

• arts-humanities.net (http://www.arts-humanities.net/)
• ADHO - Association of Digital Humanities Organisations (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/)
• CLARIN (http://www.clarin.eu/)
• centerNet (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/centernet/)
• DARIAH (http://www.dariah.eu/)

First announced at the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, the [read more...]

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) has recently published what looks like a very useful [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...]

This five-day course combines in-depth coverage of the latest version of
the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines for the encoding of [read more...]

Alastair Dunning from JISC just pointed me to this announcement - I think this looks like an excellent programme and I can only encourage everyone to have a look at this:

1) The JISC has just issued a call for workshops looking at achievements and challenges in digitisation and e-content. Up to £8,000 is available per workshop.

A quick summary of the aims of the call is available at [read more...]

DARIAH has just announced the release of the second issue of its newsletter. A PDF file of the newsletter can be downloaded from the project website. [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...]

The British Library is pleased to offer its first internship in the area of Digital Preservation. The internship will take place for four months between March and June 2009. Funding for the internship is provided by the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). [read more...]

The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference this year aims to promote discussion around dynamic networks of knowledge and practice, new digital communities of knowledge and practice, engaging users and digitisation of cultural heritage. [read more...]

Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis, School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology, Queen’s University Belfast

9.45 – 10.00: Registration

10.00 – 10.05: Introduction and Welcome, Paul S Ell, CDDA, QUB

10.05 – 10.30: Wizard of Oz or Star Trek? Considering the future of e-research in the humanities, David J Bodenhamer, IUPUI, USA [read more...]

At the recent HERA conference in Strasbourg , ‘European diversities – European identities’ there was a lot of talk about the digital future for the humanities. [read more...]

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

This post is for discussions arising from the the ICTs and the Research Process in the Creative and Performing Arts workshop, held at Glasgow University on the 24th October 2008. Content and opinions will be added here after the workshop. [read more...]

David Shepherd of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute welcomed a respectable number (I counted about thirty at the start, and more people drifted in during the morning; the registration list has 48) people to this second workshop organized by the fledgling Network of Expert Centres in Arts and humanities. [read more...]

WORKSHOP INVITATION
DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY: ITS ROLE IN HUMANITIES RESEARCH
MONDAY 13 OCTOBER 2008 [read more...]

I was just about to blog about yesterday's Network of Expert Centres' workshop in London when I saw that Lou Burnard has already posted a detailed report on the meeting with his impressions. [read more...]

In these post-AHDS, apres-Methods-Network days, a small amount of
funding has been found to explore the possibility of
setting up a "network of expert centres", aiming to develop an effective
support infrastructure in the digital arts and humanities area. As a
former AHDS centre, Oxford was invited to join the network, and I went [read more...]

Hosted by the Centre for e-Research and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London, 22 September 2008

The Wellcome Collection Conference Centre
183 Euston Road, London

9:15-9:45 Registration and coffee

9:45-10:00 Lorna Hughes (King's College London) Introduction and overview of the Network of Centres

10.00-11:30 Session 1: Models [read more...]

ICTs and the Research Process in the Creative and Performing Arts is a free community building workshop which will take place at the University of Glasgow on 24th October 2008. [read more...]