Category Archives: Events

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 http://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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CFP: Virtual Worlds: Libraries, Education and Museums

Posted on 2008-01-21 by Tom Elliott

Gabriel Bodard just posted a call for papers for a “virtual worlds” conference, to be held in Second Life on 8 March 2008. You can read the full CFP in the Digital Classicist Archive. I find it unfortunate that the … Continue reading →

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Humanities GRID Workshop (30-31 Jan; Imperial College London)

Posted on 2008-01-21 by Tom Elliott

By way of the Digital Classicists List: Epistemic Networks and GRID + Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities 30-31 January 2008 Imperial College Internet Centre, Imperial College London http://www.internetcentre.imperial.ac.uk/events Data driven Science has emerged as a new model which enables … Continue reading →

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CFP: International aerial archaeology conference

Posted on 2008-01-21 by Tom Elliott

Another interesting call for papers via Jack Sasson’s Agade list: CALL FOR PAPERS International aerial archaeology conference (AARG 2008) Ljubljana, 9 – 11 September 2008 Hosted by the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana Proposals for sessions, … Continue reading →

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International School in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Posted on 2008-01-18 by Tom Elliott

By way of Jack Sasson’s Agade list: We would like to bring your attention to the International School in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage that we’re organizing in May 2008, in Ascona, Switzerland. It’s a jointly organization between: ETH Zurich University … Continue reading →

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THATCamp: May 31 – June 1, 2008

Posted on 2008-01-17 by Tom Elliott

See further http://thatcamp.org/: a BarCamp-style, user-generated “unconference” on digital humanities … organized and hosted by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, Digital Campus, and THATPodcast

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NEH/IMLS Advancing Knowledge Grant Program Announced

Posted on 2008-01-17 by Tom Elliott

From Brett Bobley: This is a reminder that the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) invite applications to a digital humanities grant competition sponsored by the two federal agencies. The grant … Continue reading →

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NEH/JISC joint event at King’s College, London

Posted on 2008-01-17 by Tom Elliott

Monday, 21 January 2008 in room 2B08, Strand Campus, King’s College London: Developing International Collaboration for Digitisation: the JISC – National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) perspective, an evening panel session looking at issues related to international digitization, hosted by the … Continue reading →

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