Category Archives: General

UK JISC Digitisation Conference 2007

Posted on 2007-08-01 by smahony

Joint Information Systems Committee Copied from JISC Digitisation Blog “In July 2007 JISC held a two-day digitisation conference in Cardiff and the event was live blogged and podcasted. Here you can find links to all the resources from the conference, … Continue reading →

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Post-doctoral Research Assistantship in e-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents

Posted on 2007-07-27 by smahony

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) POST-DOCTORAL RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP IN E-SCIENCE, IMAGING TECHNOLOGY AND ANCIENT DOCUMENTS Further Particulars

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Doctoral Studentship in e-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents

Posted on 2007-07-27 by smahony

UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD FACULTY OF CLASSICS (Sub-Faculty of Ancient History) DOCTORAL STUDENTSHIP IN E-SCIENCE, IMAGING TECHNOLOGY AND ANCIENT DOCUMENTS Further Particulars

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Digital Projects Technical Coordinator

Posted on 2007-07-27 by smahony

Copied from Humanist LIBRARY DIGITAL PROJECTS TECHNICAL COORDINATOR Northern Illinois University Libraries seek a dynamic individual to coordinate technical aspects of their award-winning digital projects. Responsibilities include setting markup and metadata standards for all of the library Digitization Unit’s new … Continue reading →

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Advisory board for cyberinfrastructure for archaeology

Posted on 2007-07-24 by chuckjones

Eric Kansa just posted this on the Digging Digitally blog “ArchaeoInformatics.org, a collaborative organization involving a consortium of five institutions has asked for the assistance of the Digital Data Interest Group in filling positions on an advisory board that will help … Continue reading →

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Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC’08)

Posted on 2007-07-24 by smahony

copied from Humanist: CALL FOR PAPERS ICTs Bridging Cultures? Theories, Obstacles, Best Practices 6th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication (CATaC08) 24-27 June 2008 Université de Nîmes, France Conference languages: English and French www.catacconference.org The biennial CATaC … Continue reading →

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Forthcoming lectures on arts and humanities e-science

Posted on 2007-06-27 by smahony

Forwarded from AHESC Arts and Humanites e-Science Support Centre (http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/) The next lectures in the e-Science in the Arts and Humanities Theme (see http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/theme) begin next week. The Theme, organized by the Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre (AHeSSC) and … Continue reading →

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100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s)

Posted on 2007-06-25 by smahony

Saw this on Humanist. Anything out there and also freely available for UK English? A new 100+ million word corpus of American English (1920s-2000s) is now freely available at: http://corpus.byu.edu/time/ The corpus is based on more than 275,000 articles in … Continue reading →

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Announcing the TEI 2007 Members Meeting

Posted on 2007-06-20 by smahony

From Susan Schreibman posted on Humanist: We are pleased to announce the TEI annual members meeting: ** TEI@20: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities ** 31st October – 3rd November 2007, University of Maryland Pre-conference workshops: 31 October 2007 … Continue reading →

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Promise and challenge: augmenting places with sources

Posted on 2007-06-19 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has some very interesting things to say about “the widespread digitization of historical sources” and — near and dear to my heart — “augmenting places with sources”: William J. Turkel, “Seeing There,” Digital History Hacks, 18 June 2007 … Continue reading →

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Open letter to AHRC

Posted on 2007-06-17 by Gabriel Bodard

A letter has been sent to the British Arts and Humanities Research Council, asking for clarification on the fate of digital preservation and dissemination of good practice given the AHRC’s recent announcement that funding for the Arts and Humanities Data … Continue reading →

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publishing software

Posted on 2007-06-05 by hughcayless

During the session on collaboration between Digital Humanities centers at Digital Humanities 2007, Julia Flanders made some remarks that got me thinking about software tools and publication. Her remarks revolved in part around the possibility of such a collaboration providing … Continue reading →

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NEH announces deadlines for Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants

Posted on 2007-06-04 by hughcayless

From Brett Bobley at NEH (via neh-dhi-update@list.neh.gov): The next two deadlines will be: Tuesday, October 16th, 2007 Wednesday, April 2, 2008 So mark your calendars! I should note that we are currently in the process of updating the guidelines for … Continue reading →

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Withdrawal of AHDS Funding

Posted on 2007-06-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Following the recent public announcement that the UK’s AHRC intends to withdraw funding from the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the following petition has been set up at the British Government’s website. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/AHDSfunding/ On 11 May 2007, Professor Phillip Esler, … Continue reading →

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BASP licensing

Posted on 2007-05-17 by Tom Elliott

In a post yesterday I complained that I couldn’t find a license statement associated with the newly announced online version of the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists. Gregg Schwendner had a look and found it. The table-of-contents view … Continue reading →

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