Category Archives: General

Digital Humanities Summer Institute

Posted on 2007-02-28 by smahony

Digital Humanities Summer Institute: Additional Scholarship (University of Victoria) Copied from the Digital Classicist mailing list. Announcing Additional Scholarships and an Extended Deadline (March 8th) for the 2007 Digital Humanities Summer Institute University of Victoria June 18-22, 2007 http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/institute/ We … Continue reading →

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The Danish National Research Foundation’s Centre for Black Sea Studies: Open Access Publications

Posted on 2007-02-22 by chuckjones

All the Centre’s products are published online. This includes any product from conference abstracts, to manuscripts, oral papers, and pdf files of the Centre’s printed publications.

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The Nebraska Digital Workshop

Posted on 2007-02-22 by smahony

See on Humanist: Call for Proposals The Nebraska Digital Workshop October 5 & 6, 2007 The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska’s Lincoln (UNL) will host the second annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on … Continue reading →

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Gentium resurgens: refined Cyrillic, Unicode 5, smart rendering

Posted on 2007-02-19 by Tom Elliott

From Victor Gualtney, on the latest regarding the Gentium font by way of the Gentium-Announce List (links mine): Update #4 – Gentium project revived, Cyrillic, Charis Dear friends of Gentium, No – there’s not a new version out yet. 🙂 … Continue reading →

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Promotion and Tenure Criteria for New Media

Posted on 2007-02-16 by chuckjones

The University of Maine has produced an argument for redefining promotion and tenure criteria for faculty in new media departments of today’s universities. It seems to provide an excellent point of departure for a discussion of how to include a … Continue reading →

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Interview: Knowledge to the people

Posted on 2007-02-02 by smahony

Article seen in the New Scientist: Interview with Jimmy Wales the founder of Wikipedia. From issue 2589 of New Scientist magazine, 31 January 2007, page 44-45 Questions include: Was Wikipedia a fully formed concept right from the start? When did … Continue reading →

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100 Alternative Search Engines

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Read/Write Web (by Charles S. Knight): Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.” Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use … Continue reading →

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Online “Middle English Compendium”

Posted on 2007-01-31 by smahony

See on Humanist posted by Paul Schaffner | PFSchaffner@umich.edu The University of Michigan announces that under new arrangements worked out between the University Press and the University Library, all components of the online “Middle English Compendium,” including the online version … Continue reading →

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Visualizing Bibliography

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has been hacking on his Readings in Digital History list to see what he can see. He visualizes and discusses the signatures of monads, dyads, clusters of “classics,” bridges and the subclusters they link to, and bestsellers.

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Humanities Computing Links from TAPoR

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Tom Elliott

Geoffrey Rockwell has put up a collection of tagged links to online works about humanities computing. It’s a good complement to Bill Turkel’s Readings in Digital History. And, best of all, it’s TAPoRized, so you can search the collection and … Continue reading →

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Google maps and millions of books

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Tom Elliott

It was only a matter of time: Google has added overview maps for full-view books in Google Book Search. Even though Google is not the first organization to employ geoparsing technologies and autogenerated maps in the interface to a digital … Continue reading →

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“For God sake, you’re in college; don’t cite the encyclopedia”

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Tom Elliott

What’s all this fuss about? The Middlebury College History Department’s so-called Stand Against Wikipedia is just an implementation of the seven-month-old advice of Wikipedia’s own founder.

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ANNOUNCING: TWO E-LEARNING CONFERENCES, OXFORD UNIVERSITY

Posted on 2007-01-23 by smahony

Seen in Humanist: Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:46:56 +0000 From: Michael Fraser Subject: e-Learning events at Oxford ANNOUNCING: TWO E-LEARNING CONFERENCES, OXFORD UNIVERSITY 22nd and 23rd March Said Business School The Shock of the Old 6: The Shock of … Continue reading →

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8 things about e-books

Posted on 2007-01-19 by Tom Elliott

Charlie Lowe just blogged about the Educause Learning Initiative‘s helpful introductory 2-pager entitled 7 Things You Should Know About E-books. It’s a decent tool for introducing colleagues to some of the key issues surrounding, and potential benefits involved in, electronic … Continue reading →

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Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology

Posted on 2007-01-18 by smahony

Seen in Humanist: **Conference Announcement** Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Meeting of the UK Chapter: January 24th – 26th 2007 Tudor Merchants Hall, Southampton The CAA UK chapter is intended as a forum for research in the area … Continue reading →

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