Category Archives: Events

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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CLiP 2006

Posted on 2006-06-02 by scaife

from Humanist: We are pleased to announce that the full programme for CLiP 2006 “Literatures, Languages and Cultural Heritage in a digital world” conference is now available on the conference website at https://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/clip2006/content/programme/full.html

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Creative Commons in Second Life

Posted on 2006-04-19 by Gabriel Bodard

As seen in the CC-blog: Mia Garlick, Creative Commons’ General Counsel, goes in-world in Second Life to discuss copyright issues and the “Some Rights Reserved” licensing perspective this Thursday, April 20, 2006 at 6 PM PST. The event takes place … Continue reading →

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AHRC ICT Methods Network Call for proposals

Posted on 2006-04-13 by Gabriel Bodard

Call for Proposals The Methods Network invites member of the arts and humanities Higher Education community in the U.K. to submit proposals for Methods Network activities. Activities may include workshops, seminars, postgraduate training events, publications, and other activities. Workshops Workshops … Continue reading →

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11th International Congress “Cultural Heritage and New Technologies” – call for papers

Posted on 2006-04-13 by chuckjones

Cultural Heritage and New Technologies (Workshop 11 „Archäologie und Computer“) Oktober 18th– 20th, 2006 City Hall of Vienna, Austria– Wappensaalgruppe Why document and analyse Cultural Heritage with modern technologies? with Symposia: “Cultural Heritage- Funding and New Technologies” (in cooperation with … Continue reading →

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PhD studentship in Digital Humanities

Posted on 2006-03-31 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, is very pleased to announce the availability of a studentship for its PhD in Digital Humanities, to commence October 2006. Applications must be received by 7 April, so almost immediate … Continue reading →

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DRHA conference 2006

Posted on 2006-03-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Digital Resources in the Humanities And Arts * *  Conference 2006  * * Dartington College of Arts, UK September 3-6, 2006 for further details see https://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha06/index.asp and https://www.ahds.ac.uk/drha2006/index.php?cf=5

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