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New Journal: Open Access Research

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Tom Elliott

A new journal entitled Open Access Research (OAR) is now accepting submissions and plans its first issue (thereafter, thrice a year) in August 2007. It’s described as “a peer-reviewed, open-access journal that will enable greater interaction and facilitate a deeper … Continue reading →

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Googlian hegemony?

Posted on 2007-01-11 by Tom Elliott

Stuart Weibel blogged Mike Keller’s OCLC presentation entitled “Mass Digitization in Google Book Search: Effects on Scholarship.” Weibel says: For those unsettled by the rapidity of Googlian hegemony in library spaces, Mike constructs a vivid and compelling argument for embracing … Continue reading →

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Thesaurus linguae Latinae CD-Version workshop

Posted on 2007-01-10 by smahony

Something of interest for all Latinists in or near London: The Centre for Computing in the Humanities and the Digital Classicist would like to invite all those interested to a workshop on the CD-Version of the Thesaurus linguae Latinae. Dr … Continue reading →

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CAA 2007

Posted on 2006-12-19 by scaife

The Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) to be held in Berlin in April is still accepting papers and registrations. It is the aim of the conference to bring together experts from various disciplines to … Continue reading →

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Classics in the Million Book Library

Posted on 2006-11-15 by Gabriel Bodard

After the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, a group met at the University of Chicago as a part of a Mellon-funded project, centered at Tufts University, to explore the question, “What do you do with a million … Continue reading →

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Classics in the Million Book Library

Posted on 2006-11-15 by scaife

A Mellon-funded working group that met immediately after the recent Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science (dhcs.uchicago.edu) has now issued a position paper, Classics in the Million Book Library. The goal is to consider how the future of … Continue reading →

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Audio Files: History and Archaeology Expert Seminar

Posted on 2006-11-01 by Gabriel Bodard

Audio files from the Methods Network Expert Seminar ‘Virtual History and Archaeology’, held at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield, 19-21 April 2006, are now available. The following audio files are currently available. ‘Using GIS to Study Long-Term Population … Continue reading →

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CFP: A Million Books!

Posted on 2006-09-25 by scaife

Very large digital libraries and the future of the humanities: What do you do with a million books? With Google Library and the Open Content Alliance, backed by Microsoft and Yahoo, very large collections are beginning to take shape. At … Continue reading →

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Open Source Critical Editions workshop

Posted on 2006-09-21 by Gabriel Bodard

A workshop on Open Source Critical Editions will be held on Friday 22nd September in King’s College London. The workshop is co-organised by the AHRC ICT Methods Network, the Perseus Project, and the Digital Classicist. The workshop programme is available … Continue reading →

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Interesting announcement by the NEH today

Posted on 2006-08-29 by scaife

Part of a message that came around entitled 2006 Changes to Collaborative Research and Scholarly Editions Guidelines: “In keeping with the goals of the NEH Digital Humanities Initiative (see CURRENT SPECIAL INITIATIVES below), the Scholarly Editions Program requires that applicants … Continue reading →

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EDUCE funded by NSF

Posted on 2006-08-29 by scaife

The National Science Foundation has just announced a three-year award for a total of $1.2m to the team of Brent Seales (PI), Joseph Gray (co-PI), James Griffioen (co-PI), and Ross Scaife (co-PI) for EDUCE: Enhanced Digital Unwrapping for Conservation and … Continue reading →

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Five Weeks to a Social Library

Posted on 2006-08-21 by scaife

This sounds really cool.

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Surprising History of Copyright

Posted on 2006-07-25 by Tom Elliott

This Thursday, 27 July 2006, Karl Fogel (of Google) is scheduled to chair a session at OSCON entitled: The (Surprising) History of Copyright, and What It Means for Open Source. You can view the abstract online, whence the following: Much … Continue reading →

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U.S. NEH Announces ‘Digital Humanities Initiative’

Posted on 2006-07-19 by Tom Elliott

NEH has launched a new digital humanities initiative aimed at supporting projects that utilize or study the impact of digital technology … NEH is interested in fostering the growth of digital humanities and lending support to a wide variety of … Continue reading →

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Webcast on digital libraries coming up

Posted on 2006-06-30 by scaife

Lorcan Dempsey, Vice President (Research) at OCLC, will be making a presentation at Edinburgh University Library on Monday 3 July 2006: The digital library landscape and trends in the world of Web 2.0. Edinburgh University Library. Monday 3 July 2006. … Continue reading →

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