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IEEE Conference Seeks Humanities Proposals

Posted on 2009-05-14 by dporter

The 8th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2009) will focus particularly on the Arts, Media, and Humanities. According to the conference website (http://campwww.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ismar09/doku.php?id=ismar09:arts_media_and_humanities_program): ISMAR and its forerunners IWAR, ISMR and ISAR, have been the … Continue reading →

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Metadata Workshops in Michigan, 7 May 2009

Posted on 2009-02-25 by dporter

Aimed at Medievalists but may also be of interest to Classicists… The Medieval Academy of America’s Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two workshops to be held at the International Medieval Congress, Kalamazoo, MI, in May 2009. Both … Continue reading →

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The Digital Archimedes Palimpsest Released

Posted on 2008-10-29 by dporter

Very exciting news – the complete dataset of the Archimedes Palimpsest project (ten years in the making) has been released today. The official announcement is copied below, but I’d like to point out what I think it is that makes … Continue reading →

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Workshop in Computational Linguistics and Latin Philology

Posted on 2008-09-28 by dporter

Posted on behalf of David Bamman: Place: University of Innsbruck, 15. International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics Date: April 6, 2009 Workshop organizers: David Bamman (Perseus Project, Tufts University), Dag Haug (University of Oslo), Marco Passarotti (Catholic University of Milan) Invited … Continue reading →

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2009 Conference of Computer Applications to Archaeology (CFP)

Posted on 2008-09-14 by dporter

Via Centernet: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS FOR SESSIONS, WORKSHOPS, AND ROUNDTABLES at the 2009 Conference of Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA) Deadline: October 15, 2008 The 37th annual conference on Computer Applications to Archaeology (CAA) will take place at … Continue reading →

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Contribute to the Greek and Latin Treebanks at Perseus!

Posted on 2008-08-28 by dporter

Posted on behalf of Greg Crane. Link to the Treebank, which provides more information, at the very end of the post. We are currently looking for advanced students of Greek and Latin to contribute syntactic analyses (via a web-based system) … Continue reading →

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Office of Digital Humanities: Search for funded projects

Posted on 2008-08-20 by dporter

Playing around on the website of the National Endowment for the Humanities’ Office of Digital Humanities this afternoon I came across the Library of Funded Projects, a database of projects funded through the ODH. Visitors can search by Categories (technical … Continue reading →

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Article on PSWPC in LLC June 2008

Posted on 2008-05-26 by dporter

David Pritchard, “Working Papers, Open Access, and Cyber-infrastructure in Classical Studies” Literary and Linguistic Computing 2008 23: 149-162; doi:10.1093/llc/fqn005. http://llc.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/23/2/149?etoc Princeton—Stanford Working Papers in Classics (PSWPC) is a web-based series of work-in-progress scripts by members of two leading departments of … Continue reading →

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new CC Journal: Glossator

Posted on 2008-05-16 by dporter

By way of the Humanist. Glossator: Practice and Theory of the Commentary http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/glossator/ Glossator publishes original commentaries, editions and translations of commentaries, and essays and articles relating to the theory and history of commentary, glossing, and marginalia. The journal aims … Continue reading →

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New Open-Access Humanities Press Makes Its Debut

Posted on 2008-05-08 by dporter

Article in The Chronicle of Higher Education Scholars in the sciences have been light-years ahead of their peers in the humanities in exploring the possibilities of open-access publishing. But a new venture with prominent academic backers, the Open Humanities Press, … Continue reading →

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9th International Art Conference on Non-destructive Investigation and Analysis, Jerusalem, May 25-30

Posted on 2008-04-17 by dporter

From the Chairman’s Letter: The main objective of Art2008 is to bring together experts in non-destructive evaluation and material analysis with professionals from the fields of preservation of cultural heritage, archeology, art history and architectural researchers of ancient structures. Non-destructive … Continue reading →

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Report on NEH Workshop “Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions”

Posted on 2008-04-04 by dporter

The official report on the NEH Workshop “Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions”, held on January 14, has been released and is available in PDF form: http://www.virginiafoundation.org/NEH%20Workshop%20Report%20FINAL-3.pdf Attendees included representatives from funding agencies and university presses, historians, just one or two literary … Continue reading →

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DHI Now Known as Office of Digital Humanities (ODH)

Posted on 2008-03-25 by dporter

Not specifically classics, but this news from the National Endowment for the Humanities should be of interest, at least to those of us in the US: The Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI) has been made permanent, and is now the Office … Continue reading →

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Ross Scaife Memorial Services

Posted on 2008-03-21 by dporter

There will be two memorial services held in honor of Ross Scaife. The first will be held at Belmont (the home and studio of Fredericksburg artist Gari Melchers) in Fredericksburg, Virginia on Wednesday, April 2, at 2 pm (http://www.umw.edu/gari_melchers/). The … Continue reading →

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Ross Scaife (1960-2008)

Posted on 2008-03-18 by dporter

Allen Ross Scaife, 47, Professor of Classics at the University of Kentucky and founding editor of the Stoa Consortium for Electronic Publication in the Humanities, died of cancer on March 15, at his home in Lexington, Kentucky. Ross was born … Continue reading →

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