Category Archives: General

Stanford’s Virtual Archives Open House

Posted on 2009-07-24 by dporter

This is copied from an announcement I received through the Exlibris listserv, and I thought readers of The Stoa would be interested as well. I’m not a big proponent of Second Life, but I do like seeing how people are … Continue reading →

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Assisted Transcription Software

Posted on 2009-07-21 by dporter

Posted on behalf of Ben Gracy at the University of Denver: an article on an assisted transcription system that uses OCR. It sounds fascinating. *edit: elsewhere in the article reference is made to “ancient documents and manuscripts”, which indicates that … Continue reading →

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Call for Book Proposals in Digital Classics

Posted on 2009-07-16 by melissa

Gorgias Press is expanding its interest in technology and classics and welcomes book proposals regarding digital classics research, for both monographs (including revised dissertations) and edited collections (based on conference sessions or otherwise). Proposals should be no more than 4 … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist seminars update

Posted on 2009-07-15 by smahony

Note that we have had to make a change to the programme for the Digital Classicist ICS seminar series. The correct details are on the Digital Classicist website. July 24 Leif Isaksen (Southampton) ‘Linking Archaeological Data ‘ July 31 Elton … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist seminars update

Posted on 2009-06-26 by smahony

We are now about to hear from the speakers in the fourth in this excellent series. For those of you that are unable to make the seminar itself, we are again recording each event and podcasting it along with slides … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities Conference Schedule

Posted on 2009-06-19 by dporter

There are a number of sessions and individual papers that will be of interest to Digital Classicists scheduled for the Digital Humanities 2009 conference, next Tuesday-Thursday, June 23-25 at the University of Maryland. There are many, many more than I’m … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist seminar update

Posted on 2009-05-29 by smahony

There has been a small change to the programme for the Digital Classicist/ICS Work-in-Progress seminar series. The earlier post has been updated with the full details. See: http://www.stoa.org/?p=909 Simon

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IEEE Conference Seeks Humanities Proposals

Posted on 2009-05-14 by dporter

The 8th IEEE and ACM International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2009) will focus particularly on the Arts, Media, and Humanities. According to the conference website (http://campwww.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/ismar09/doku.php?id=ismar09:arts_media_and_humanities_program): ISMAR and its forerunners IWAR, ISMR and ISAR, have been the … Continue reading →

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InterFace 2009: Second Call for Papers

Posted on 2009-04-23 by leifisaksen

The InterFace 2009 2nd Call for Papers is now out. Please note that the deadline for submission (and thus attendance) is now looming! ————— InterFace 2009: Second Call for Papers **PLEASE NOTE – ALL PARTICIPANTS MUST PRESENT A POSTER OR … Continue reading →

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Digital Imaging and Human Rights Justice

Posted on 2009-04-09 by Gabriel Bodard

A very exciting story reported by Xeni Jardin on the Boingboing blog a couple weeks ago (Tech Forensics in Guatemala–first prefigured in a piece two years earlier), that links some of the imaging techniques beloved of we digital philology types … Continue reading →

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Special issue of the DHQ in honour of Ross Scaife

Posted on 2009-02-27 by smahony

copied from Humanist: From: Julia Flanders Subject: DHQ issue 3.1 now available We’re very happy to announce the publication of the new issue of DHQ: DHQ 3.1 (Winter 2009) A special issue in honor of Ross Scaife: “Changing the Center … Continue reading →

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Ph.D. fellowships in digital curation

Posted on 2008-12-30 by hughcayless

The School of Information and Library Science (www.sils.unc.edu) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill encourages applications for Ph.D. fellowships in digital curation supported by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded  DigCCurrII project (http://ils.unc.edu/digccurr/aboutII.html#cdcdf). DigCCurr II … Continue reading →

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NEH High Performance Computing Awards

Posted on 2008-12-04 by Gabriel Bodard

Winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Department of Energy Humanities High Performance Computing program were reported on Arts-Humanities.Net by Brett Bobbley (originally at the ODH site). I note that two of the three awards have a strong classical connection: … Continue reading →

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Digital Classicist Occasional Seminars: Lamé on digital epigraphy

Posted on 2008-11-04 by Gabriel Bodard

For those who are not subscribed to the Digital Classicist podcast RSS, I’d like to call attention to the latest “occasional seminar” audio and slides online: Marion Lamé spoke about “Epigraphical encoding: from the Stone to Digital Edition” in the … Continue reading →

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Workshop in Computational Linguistics and Latin Philology

Posted on 2008-09-28 by dporter

Posted on behalf of David Bamman: Place: University of Innsbruck, 15. International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics Date: April 6, 2009 Workshop organizers: David Bamman (Perseus Project, Tufts University), Dag Haug (University of Oslo), Marco Passarotti (Catholic University of Milan) Invited … Continue reading →

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