Monthly Archives: June 2007

Chiron pool at Flickr

Posted on 2007-06-27 by scaife

Alun Salt notes Recently the 5000th photo was uploaded to the Chiron pool at Flickr. That’s over 5000 photos connected to antiquity which you can pick up and use in presentations or blogs for free. It’s due in no small … 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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Paper on Archaeology in Second Life

Posted on 2007-06-23 by Gabriel Bodard

Shawn Graham (at the Electric Archaeology blog) has uploaded a copy of his paper, at the recent Immersive Worlds conference at Brock. The paper can be downloaded (as a .wav) here: ‘On Second Lives and Past Lifes: Archaeological Thoughts on … 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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Rome Reborn 1.0

Posted on 2007-06-11 by scaife

from the Chronicle for Higher Education: Ancient Rome Restored — Virtually A group of Virginians and Californians has rebuilt ancient Rome. And today they received the grateful thanks of the modern city’s mayor. The rebuilding marked by this ceremony has … Continue reading →

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Studentship and job in E-Science, Imaging Technology and Ancient Documents

Posted on 2007-06-09 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted for Melissa Terras: Applications are invited for two posts for which funding has been secured through the AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities E-Science initiative to support research on the application of Information Technology to ancient documents. Both posts are attached … 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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Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D

Posted on 2007-06-05 by scaife

Amy Hackney Blackwell has a new piece in Wired on the just-concluded month-long effort to digitize Venetus A at the Biblioteca Marciana in Venice.  (There’s a nice gallery of images too.) I was fortunate to be part of this CHS-sponsored … 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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OA in Classics…

Posted on 2007-06-04 by scaife

Josiah Ober, Walter Scheidel, Brent D. Shaw and Donna Sanclemente, “Toward Open Access in Ancient Studies: The Princeton-Stanford Working Papers in Classics” in Hesperia, Volume: 76, Issue: 1. Cover date: Jan-Mar 2007

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Two Digital Humanities Job Openings at Brown University

Posted on 2007-06-03 by Gabriel Bodard

1. Scholarly Technology Group—Senior Research Programmer The Senior Research Programmer Analyst works closely with faculty and STG staff to carry out digital humanities projects by performing project analysis, providing technical leadership, programming and software development in support of STG’s projects. … Continue reading →

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Collaborative article against perpetual copyright

Posted on 2007-06-03 by Gabriel Bodard

Back in the middle of May, Lawrence Lessig posted a note on his blog pointing to a particularly idiotic op-ed in the NY Times that argued for perpetual copyright. He invited readers to write a response, on his Wiki. 25000 … Continue reading →

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