Author Archives: Tom Elliott

About Tom Elliott

Associate Director for Digital Programs and Senior Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University

Digital Papyrology Position at NYU

Posted on 2010-09-13 by Tom Elliott

New York University Programmer/Analyst New York University’s Division of the Libraries seeks a Programmer/Analyst to work on the “Papyrological Navigator” (http://papyri.info) and associated systems. Papyri.info is a web-based research portal that provides scholars worldwide with the ability to search, browse … Continue reading →

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Three-year IT position: digitization of the Berlin papyrus collection

Posted on 2010-09-08 by Tom Elliott

Seen in a post, on various lists, by Fabian Reiter: Liebe Kollegen, im Rahmen des von der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft geförderten Digitalisierungsprojektes der Berliner Papyrussammlung ist für 3 Jahre die Stelle eines Fachinformatikers zu besetzen, vgl. die Ausschreibung unter den folgenden … Continue reading →

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: eHumanities Workshop at 40th Annual Meeting of the German Computer Science Society in Leipzig, Germany

Posted on 2010-07-23 by Tom Elliott

Marco Büchler asked me to post the following notice: Workshop: eHumanities – How does computer science benefit? Organiser: Prof. Gerhard Heyer and Marco Büchler (Natural Language Processing / CS, University of Leipzig) SPECIAL HINT: ————————– The workshop is compiled NOT … Continue reading →

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Job: Research Associate, Digital Sanskrit Library (Brown)

Posted on 2009-11-25 by Tom Elliott

The following notice comes by way of Elli Mylonas at Brown University: The digital Sanskrit library in the Department of Classics at Brown University seeks a post-doctoral research associate for one year to assist in an NEH-funded project entitled, “Enhancing … Continue reading →

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Immediate opening for webmaster/systems administrator at ISAW

Posted on 2009-10-02 by Tom Elliott

We have an immediate opening for a full-time web master / systems administrator at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University.

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New Digital Humanities/Libraries/Museums Calendar

Posted on 2009-02-27 by Tom Elliott

Amanda French has started a publicly accessible calendar of conferences and events related to “Digital Humanities, Digital Libraries and Digital Museums.”

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NEH Program Officer jobs

Posted on 2009-02-11 by Tom Elliott

The National Endowment for the Humanities is hiring: two “humanities administrator” positions (aka program officers), and one accountant. Better hurry:   one of them closes this Friday.

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Programming job: text mining in ancient texts

Posted on 2009-01-06 by Tom Elliott

Marco Büchler at the University of Leipzig just sent around this announcement: The Natural Language Processing Division at the Computer Science Department of the  University of Leipzig, Germany, is the leading partner in the E-Humanties project eAQUA –  a project … Continue reading →

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CFP: Natural Language Processing for Ancient Language

Posted on 2008-11-24 by Tom Elliott

Chuck Jones has just posted a call for papers for a special issue of the TAL journal (Revue TAL) on the topic “Natual Language Processing for Ancient Language” over at AWBG.

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UMich libraries goes creative-commons

Posted on 2008-10-20 by Tom Elliott

Via Open-Access News we learn: The University of Michigan Library has decided to adopt Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial licenses for all works created by the Library for which the Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyrights. These works include … Continue reading →

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CFP: Digital Humanities 09

Posted on 2008-09-11 by Tom Elliott

The Call for Papers for Digital Humanities 09, scheduled for 22-25 June at the University of Maryland, has just been issued. Abstracts are due on 31 October 2008.

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MITH’s Digital Dialogues schedule

Posted on 2008-09-04 by Tom Elliott

The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has released the fall schedule for their “digital dialogues” lecture series. There are a number of interesting talks. I wonder if any of these will be podcast? Since the full schedule … Continue reading →

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Open Access Day Announced: 14 October 2008

Posted on 2008-08-29 by Tom Elliott

By way of Open Access News we learn of the announcement of Open Access Day 2008: SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS), and Students for Free Culture have jointly announced the first … Continue reading →

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Self-archiving

Posted on 2008-07-08 by Tom Elliott

Michael E. Smith has just blogged an opinion piece on self-archiving.

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Microsoft Ends Book and Article Scanning

Posted on 2008-05-24 by Tom Elliott

Miguel Helf, writing in the New York Times, reports: Microsoft said Friday that it was ending a project to scan millions of books and scholarly articles and make them available on the Web … Microsoft’s decision also leaves the Internet … Continue reading →

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