Category Archives: Teaching

2010 DHO Summer School with NINES and EpiDoc

Posted on 2009-12-07 by Gabriel Bodard

2010 DHO Summer School in conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative 28 June – 2 July, 2010 http://dho.ie/ss2010 The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July 2010. … Continue reading →

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Pre-conference workshops at DH2010

Posted on 2009-11-19 by Gabriel Bodard

As in previous years, the days 3-6 July, before the DH2010 conference (7-11 July at King’s College London <http://www.cch.kcl.ac.uk/dh2010>) have been set aside for community-run workshops. One can reach a diverse and committed body of participants in the Digital Humanities … Continue reading →

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Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age

Posted on 2009-11-11 by smahony

Forwarded on behalf of Peter Stokes. Note that the following is for students who are registered for PhDs in the United Kingdom. Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: 17-22 May 2010 The Institute of English Studies (London) is pleased … Continue reading →

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Practical Epigraphy Workshop

Posted on 2009-11-09 by smahony

Forwarded for Charlotte Tupman. Practical Epigraphy Workshop 22-24 June 2010, Great North Museum, Newcastle A Practical Epigraphy Workshop is taking place for those who are interested in developing hands-on skills in working with epigraphic material. The workshop is aimed at … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Training Sessions 2009

Posted on 2009-05-20 by Gabriel Bodard

EpiDoc Training Sessions 2009 London 20-24 July Rome 21-25 September The EpiDoc community has been developing protocols for the publication of inscriptions, papyri, and other documentary Classical texts in TEI-compliant XML: for details see the community website at http://epidoc.sf.net. Over … Continue reading →

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New MA programme in Digital Asset Management

Posted on 2009-04-09 by smahony

Something of interest to all digital humanists. The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) in collaboration with the Centre for e-Research both at King’s College London has just launched its new Masters Programme in Digital Asset Management. This complements … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Summer School, July 14th-18th, 2008

Posted on 2008-04-23 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The training is designed for epigraphers or papyrologists (or related text editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would … Continue reading →

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Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (report)

Posted on 2008-01-20 by Gabriel Bodard

The British Library and JISC commissioned the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) at UCL to produce a report on Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. It’s well worth reading the full reportin PDF … Continue reading →

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Learn a foreign language on the cheap

Posted on 2007-08-16 by scaife

from Lifehacker: The No Thick Manuals wiki details how to learn a language efficiently using two free, open source applications. The first is jVLT (java Vocabulary Learning Tool), a completely cross platform flash card application. The second is StarDict, a … Continue reading →

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Top 100 Alt Search Engine list

Posted on 2007-08-04 by smahony

I saw last year’s Top 100 posted here from Read/WriteWeb. They’ve just put out this year’s Top 100. The author says: Some of them did not even exist a year ago. One of my goals is to show my readers … Continue reading →

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ccLearn: Creative Commons education division

Posted on 2007-07-28 by Gabriel Bodard

An interesting development for teaching materials and collaboration protocols: Creative Commons is pleased to announce the launch of a new division focused on education: ccLearn. ccLearn is dedicated to realizing the full potential of the Internet to support open learning … 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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Text Mining for Historians (workshop)

Posted on 2007-05-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Just announced by the Methods Network: TEXT MINING FOR HISTORIANS workshop at University of Glasgow 17 – 18 July 2007 A workshop organized by Zoe Bliss, AHDS History and the Association for History and Computing UK (AHC-UK) Texts are central … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Summer School, 11-15 June, 2007

Posted on 2007-05-13 by scaife

Over the last few years an international group of scholars has been developing a set of conventions for marking up ancient documents in XML for publication and interchange. The EpiDoc Guidelines started from the case of inscriptions, but the principles … Continue reading →

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Stop teaching historians to use computers!

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has started what looks to be an important and potentially influential thread on the nexus of history and the digital. His opening salvo: Teaching history students how to use computers was a really good idea in the early … Continue reading →

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