Category Archives: Events

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: https://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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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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Problems and outcomes in digital philology (session 3: methodologies)

Posted on 2008-03-27 by Gabriel Bodard

The Marriage of Mercury and Philology: Problems and outcomes in digital philology e-Science Institute, Edinburgh, March 25-27 2008. (Event website; programme wiki; original call) I was asked to summarize the third session of papers in the round table discussion this … 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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Digital Classicist seminars update

Posted on 2008-03-25 by smahony

To bring you all up to date with what is going on with the Digital Classicist seminar series: Some papers from the DC seminar series held at the Institute of Classical Studies in London in the summer of 2006 have … Continue reading →

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Services and Infrastructure for a Million Books (round table)

Posted on 2008-03-17 by Gabriel Bodard

Million Books Workshop, Friday, March 14, 2008, Imperial College London. The second of two round tables in the afternoon of the Million Books Workshop, chaired by Brian Fuchs (Imperial College London), asked a panel of experts what services and infrastructure … Continue reading →

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What would you do with a million books? (round table)

Posted on 2008-03-16 by Gabriel Bodard

Million Books Workshop, Friday, March 14, 2008, Imperial College London. In the afternoon, the first of two round table discussions concerned the uses to which massive text digitisation could be put by the curators of various collections. The panellists were: … Continue reading →

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Million Books Workshop (brief report)

Posted on 2008-03-15 by Gabriel Bodard

Imperial College London. Friday, March 14, 2008. David Smith gave the first paper of the morning on “From Text to Information: Machine Translation”. The discussion included a survey of machine translation techniques (including the automatic discovery of existing translations by … Continue reading →

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Changing the Center of Gravity

Posted on 2008-03-04 by dporter

Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure https://www.rch.uky.edu/CenterOfGravity/ University of Kentucky, 5 October 2007 This is the full audio record of “Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure”, a workshop funded by the National … Continue reading →

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CFP: DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice

Posted on 2008-03-03 by Tom Elliott

By way of a long string of reposts, originally to AHESSC: Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:37:17 -0000 From: Stuart Dunn To: AHESSC@JISCMAIL.AC.UK CALL FOR PAPERS AND PERFORMANCES Forthcoming Conference DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice The DRHA … Continue reading →

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Rieger, Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization

Posted on 2008-03-02 by Gabriel Bodard

CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources in DC) have published in PDF the text of a white paper by Oya Rieger titled ‘Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization‘. She discusses large-scale digitization initiatives such as Google Books, … Continue reading →

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Registration: 3D Scanning Conference at UCL

Posted on 2008-02-26 by Tom Elliott

Kalliopi Vacharopoulou wrote, via the DigitalClassicist list: I would like to draw to your attention the fact that registration for the 3D Colour Laser Scanning Conference at UCL on the 27th and 28th of March has now opened. The first … Continue reading →

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International Seminar of Digital Philology: Edinburgh, March 25-27, 2008

Posted on 2008-02-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen on the AHeSSC mailing list: The e-Science Institute Event Announcement The e-Science Institute is delighted to host the “The Marriage of Mercury and Philology: Problems and Outcomes in Digital Philology”. The conference welcomes both leading scholars and young researchers … Continue reading →

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Digitizing Early Material Culture (CFP)

Posted on 2008-02-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Brent Nelson: Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to ModernityA Seminar to be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Seminar and … Continue reading →

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CFP: Open Scholarship: Authority, Community and Sustainability in the Age of Web 2.0

Posted on 2008-01-23 by Tom Elliott

By way of JISC-Repositories: The 12th International Conference on Electronic Publishing (25 to 27 June 2008, Toronto, Canada) has just extended its call for papers to 31 January 2008. Full details below …

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