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Digitization and the Humanities: an RLG Programs Symposium

Posted on 2008-04-17 by chuckjones

Is anyone here attending this? As primary source materials move online, in both licensed and freely available form, what will be the impact on scholarship? On teaching and learning practice? On the collecting practices of research libraries? These are questions … Continue reading →

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Informatique et Egyptologie, I&E 2008

Posted on 2008-04-02 by chuckjones

A date has been set for the next meeting of the International Association of Egyptologists Computer Group (Informatique et Egyptologie, I&E), which last met in Oxford in 2006. Thanks to the kindness of Dr Wilfried Seipel, the meeting will take … Continue reading →

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Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and Digital Library Program of UCLA

Posted on 2007-09-26 by chuckjones

The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and the Digital Library Program of the University of California, Los Angeles, are pleased to announce their successful proposal to the Institute for Museum and Library Services program “National Leadership Grants: Building Digital Resources” for … Continue reading →

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Stanford Humanities Center – Digital Humanities Fellowship

Posted on 2007-09-11 by chuckjones

The Stanford Humanities Center seeks to award one Digital Humanities Fellowship for the academic year 2008-2009 to a junior or senior scholar. The Digital Humanities Fellowship reflects the Stanford Humanities Center’s commitment to supporting new directions in humanities research. The … Continue reading →

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Advisory board for cyberinfrastructure for archaeology

Posted on 2007-07-24 by chuckjones

Eric Kansa just posted this on the Digging Digitally blog “ArchaeoInformatics.org, a collaborative organization involving a consortium of five institutions has asked for the assistance of the Digital Data Interest Group in filling positions on an advisory board that will help … Continue reading →

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Propylaeum-DOK

Posted on 2007-04-27 by chuckjones

An interesting new project at Heidelberg: “Propylaeum-DOK, der Volltextserver der Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaft, Propylaeum wird von der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg bereitgestellt. Die Publikationsplattform bietet Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern weltweit die Möglichkeit, ihre Veröffentlichungen aus allen Fachbereichen der Altertumswissenschaften kostenlos und in elektronischer … Continue reading →

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The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Black Sea Studies: Open Access Publications

Posted on 2007-02-22 by chuckjones

All the Centre’s products are published online. This includes any product from conference abstracts, to manuscripts, oral papers, and pdf files of the Centre’s printed publications.

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Promotion and Tenure Criteria for New Media

Posted on 2007-02-16 by chuckjones

The University of Maine has produced an argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of today’s universities. It seems to provide an excellent point of departure for a discussion of how to include a … Continue reading →

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A new Blog: Digging Digitally

Posted on 2006-05-31 by chuckjones

Eric Kansa of The Alexandria Archive Initiative, has initiated a new blog Digging Digitally: Archaeology, data sharing, digitally enabled research and education on behelf of the Digital Data Interest Group of the SAA. “DDIG members can use this blog to … Continue reading →

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Luminous Lint

Posted on 2006-05-05 by chuckjones

Luminous Lint hopes “to create the world‘s leading collaborative knowledge-base for the history of photography showing significant vintage and contemporary photography.”  They already have a developing theme on Early landscape photography of the Classical World, and on photographers such as … Continue reading →

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Musematic

Posted on 2006-04-18 by chuckjones

Rants and raves on the latest trends in the world of museum informatics and technology. An intrepid cast of experts from the Museum Computer Network and AAM’s Media & Technology Committee share their insights, observations and tricks of the trade.

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11th International Congress “Cultural Heritage and New Technologies” – call for papers

Posted on 2006-04-13 by chuckjones

Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (Workshop 11 „Archäologie und Computer“) Oktober 18th– 20th, 2006 City Hall of Vienna, Austria– Wappensaalgruppe Why document and analyse Cultural Heritage with modern technologies? with Symposia: “Cultural Heritage- Funding and New Technologies” (in cooperation with … Continue reading →

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ETANA-DL project

Posted on 2006-04-11 by chuckjones

Some of you may find this documentation on the ETANA-DL project (with which  I am marginally connected) interesting.  This DL part of this project is headed by Ed Fox at Virginia Tech. “This research proposes to develop a digital library … Continue reading →

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The future of technology in higher education?

Posted on 2006-02-03 by chuckjones

“The 2006 Horizon Report  is now available. The 2006 edition is a collaboration between The New Media Consortium and the EDUCAUSE Learning Initiative (ELI), an EDUCAUSE program. The 2006 Horizon Report, just as has been the case with previous editions … Continue reading →

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Abzu expanding

Posted on 2006-01-03 by chuckjones

I have begun to expand the scope of Abzu to include Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology in addition to the ancient Near East. Abzu is an index to open access material served from stable platforms. It covers material realting to the … Continue reading →

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