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...]

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...]

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...]

ICDEM 2010: Second International Conference on Data Engineering and Management, Organized by National Institute of Informatics-Japan and Bishop Heber College (Autonomous), Tiruchirappalli, India. 29-31/July/2010 [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...]

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...]

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 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...]

Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will be
available at the conference web site from October 8th. Presentations may be
any of the following:

• Single papers (abstract max of 1500 words)
• Multiple paper sessions (overview max of 500 words)
• Posters (abstract max of 1500 words)

Call for Papers Announcement

The International Programme Committee invites submissions of abstracts of
between 750 and 1500 words on any aspect of humanities computing, broadly
defined to encompass the common ground between information technology and [read more...]

Digital Humanities is the annual international conference for digital scholarship in the humanities. DH2010 will be hosted at King's College London by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Centre for e-Research, with the support of the School of Arts and Humanities and the Principal, Professor Rick Trainor.

The annual conference is sponsored by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO).

http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010/index.html

http://ow.ly/1d9ih

You are invited to attend the Text Mining for Scholarly Communications and Repositories Joint Workshop.

The aim of the event is to examine the issues, challenges and priorities associated with integrating text mining technologies in applications to support scholarly communication and repository initiatives. [read more...]

The prospective postholder is expected to teach courses in German linguistics or literary studies as well as humanities computing at undergraduate and graduate level (Bachelor/Master of Arts Germanistik, Master of Arts Linguistic and Literary Computing, teaching degrees).

The postholder must have research interests and a proven track record of excellent research in at least two of the following areas:

* Text technology
* History and theory of literature and media
* Text linguistics [read more...]

The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to research on-line research collaboration in [read more...]

The Historical Thesaurus of English project at Glasgow University presents the vocabulary of English from Old English to the present arranged in semantic categories. [read more...]

Among numerous specialist workshops and colloquia on the opening day, 'Corpus linguistics and literature' gave researchers an opportunity to report on their latest findings and the state of the art in [read more...]

Following the Corpus Linguistics Conferences at Lancaster and Birmingham, Corpus Linguistics 2009 is being held at the University of Liverpool. [read more...]

The JISC Virtual Research Environment (VRE) III kick-off meeting was held at the University of Leicester 8-9 July 2009. [read more...]

The digital Classicist seminar on Friday 26th June: Marco Büchler and Annette Loos (Leipzig) - Textual Re-use of Ancient Greek Texts: A case study on Plato’s works. [read more...]

We have just started a new group on Arts-Humanities.net with a focus upon social approaches or 'web 2' within the Digital Humanities. [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...]

To complement the University of Saskatchewan's growing strengths in Digital Humanities, the Department of English is seeking applicants for a Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in digital textuality. [read more...]

CREATE 2009 is a 2-day conference about creating innovative interactions, whether digital consumer products, interactive services or interaction paradigms. [read more...]

What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production. [read more...]

What is Sculpture in the 21st Century?
The ISC's 22nd International Sculpture Conference will explore and consider the potential of sculpture in the 21st century - to provide an opportunity to both celebrate its vitality and diversity, its capacity to challenge, and to examine its current position, function and production.

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...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 27 April 2009

All Posts: http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/

Recent Posts:

We focused our attentions this week to the launch of the World Digital Library…and there is much to focus on…

World Digital Library: governance, charter, sustainability 26 April 2009

World Digital Library Launch: “9D” collection access… 25 April 2009 [read more...]

We are pleased to announce that there will be a GATE Summer School, held in Sheffield. If you or your students would be interested in using GATE for text analytics, then we hope you'll find this interesting.

An outline of the programme appears below - to be delivered as a mixture
of talks, demos, and hands-on exercises: [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 20 April 2009

All Posts: http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/

Recent Posts:

“Special focus on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)”: Canadian Museums Association National Conference 2010

Natural Language Processing for Digital Libraries: CACAO Event (June, Italy)

Cornell: Mann Library’s HEARTH digital collection grows 60% [read more...]

TeMA-2009 will be held at the 14th Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA 2009), in University of Aveiro, Portugal.

This track is organized under the auspices of the Portuguese Association for Artificial Intelligence (APPIA).

EPIA 2009 URL: http://epia2009.appia.pt/

[1] Track Description: [read more...]

Dear members of the Wmatrix group,

As it seems that there is no strong interest in a web-based forum just to support Wmatrix, Paul Rayson and I have come to the conclusion to merge this group with the existing Text Mining group on the site. This will hopefully make the group more useful to its members and help to consolidate our online activities in this field.

All the content will be moved automatically and you do not need to take further action.

See you all in the Text mining group,
Torsten

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 CLA Workshop is located within the framework of the IMCSIT conference to create a dialog between researchers and practitioners involved in Computational Linguistics and related areas of Information Technology. [read more...]

digital stewardship now
digest for 23 March 2009

All Posts: http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/

Recent Posts:
The Radical Reinvention Imperative: Academic Librarians in the New Economy/ACRL 21 March 2009
http://digitalstewardshipnow.wordpress.com/2009/03/21/the-ra... [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...]

U-Compare is an integrated text mining/natural language processing system based on the UIMA Framework, which provides access to a large collection of ready-to-use interoperable natural language processing components. [read more...]

On November 18, I gave a presentation at the Supercomputing 2008 conference in Austin, Texas, USA, and announced the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Department of Energy Humanities High Performance Computing program. [read more...]

CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008 will be held at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008. The conference theme is “New Directions in Text Analysis.” There will also be a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing Early Material Culture”

Invited speakers on “New Directions in Text Analysis” are [read more...]

TADA (the Text Analysis Developers' Alliance) announces a new text analysis event: a multi-category "best ideas" type competition intended to stimulate innovation in text analysis and encourage connections between users and developers. There is a prize to be won - and a tight deadline: 30th June 2008.

Competition Categories

Best New Tool [read more...]

* When: Saturday 21st June 2008, 11am - 5pm
* Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
* Map: http://tinyurl.com/58br3u
* Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation/Workshop [read more...]

From the NEH: "The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. [read more...]

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will undertake a major two-year study of the potential of text-mining tools for historical (and by extension, humanities) scholarship. Read more about this exciting project on Dan Cohen's blog. [read more...]

CICLing-2008, the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Text Processing and Computational Linguistics, will take place at the University of Haifa on February 17-23, 2008. More details are available here:
http://www.cicling.org/2008/

The deadline for early registration is December 25th. Register here:
https://www.cri.haifa.ac.il/cicling2008/

Paul Rayson, the developer of Wmatrix, and I are currently discussing corpus linguistics, text mining tools, their application in the field of history and tools development - you are invited to have a look at the discussion or join us in the new Wmatrix user group forum:

http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix/forum/interview_paul_...

Dr. [read more...]

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Love - a familiar or a devil? [read more...]