Yearly Archives: 2010

InterFace 2011: 3rd International Symposium for Humanities and Technology

Posted on 2010-12-21 by smahony

Posted on behalf of the organisers. I went to the first InterFace at Southampton in 2008 and it was a great event. ———————————————————- SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT With apologies for cross posting. InterFace 2011 — 27-29 July 2011, University College London InterFace … Continue reading →

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Immediate Opening: Digital Papyrology Programmer

Posted on 2010-12-13 by Tom Elliott

This position, previously announced, has been re-opened for a 12-month tenure, beginning January 2011. New York University Programmer/Analyst New York University’s Division of the Libraries seeks a Programmer/Analyst to work on the “Papyrological Navigator” (http://papyri.info) and associated systems. Papyri.info is … Continue reading →

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Plutarch, Athenaeus, Elegy and Iambus, the Greek Anthology, Lucian and the Scaife Digital Library – 1.6 million words of Open Content Greek

Posted on 2010-12-13 by gregcrane

iThe Perseus Digital Library is pleased to publish TEI XML digital editions for Plutarch, Athenaeus, the Greek Anthology, and for most of Lucian. This increases the available Plutarch from roughly 100,000 to the surviving 1,150,000 words. Athenaeus and the Greek … Continue reading →

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Job vacancy in digital palaeography

Posted on 2010-12-07 by smahony

Seen on Digital Medievalist and posted here. Vacancy: Research Associate (Digital Palaeography) The Centre for Computing in Humanities (CCH) at King’s College London seeks a suitably experienced Research Associate for a new four-year project on digital palaeography. The post holder … Continue reading →

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Εἰκονοποιία proceedings online

Posted on 2010-11-18 by Gabriel Bodard

I’m delighted to see that the proceedings of last month’s conference on Digital Imaging of Ancient Textual Heritage are now online as an open access PDF. Download from: http://www.eikonopoiia.org/files/Eikonopoiia-2010-Proceedings.pdf There was an impressive line-up at this important conference, and I … Continue reading →

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Open Access and Citation Impact

Posted on 2010-11-17 by Gabriel Bodard

A recent study published in the Public Library of Science has tested the relationship between Open Access self-archiving of peer-reviewed articles and improved citation impact. See: Gargouri Y et al. ‘Self-Selected or Mandated, Open Access Increases Citation Impact for Higher … Continue reading →

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Rethinking the Humanities and advancing civilization in a violent world

Posted on 2010-11-09 by gregcrane

As we consider whether or not the Humanities serve a public good and warrant public support, we cannot emphasize enough that ideas are a matter of life and death. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Kabul and Kandahar were … Continue reading →

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Digital Humanities in Computer Science

Posted on 2010-11-03 by gregcrane

Digital Humanities in the Computer Science Department at Tufts University PLEASE CIRCULATE Computer Science has played a critical role in many areas of inquiry, but nowhere are the potential implications greater than in the Humanities. We are transforming the ways … Continue reading →

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Digital Papyrology

Posted on 2010-10-26 by jds15

The following is a lightly edited version of a talk that I delivered at the 26th Congress of the International Association of Papyrologists, 19 August 2010, in Geneva (program), posted here upon nudging of G. Bodard. Colleagues. It is a … Continue reading →

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Database/Web Position at the American Numismatic Society

Posted on 2010-10-25 by sebheath

The American Numismatic Society seeks to hire an entry-level Database and Web Services Developer to oversee the ongoing development of its curatorial database and related resources as tools for internal collections management, scholarly research and public outreach. We particularly seek … Continue reading →

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CLIR/Tufts Survey of Digital Classics available for comment

Posted on 2010-10-25 by dporter

Via Humanist: Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:09:47 -0400 From: Gregory Crane Subject: CLIR/Tufts Survey of Digital Classics available for comment Infrastructure for Humanities Scholarship http://www.clir.org/activities/details/infrastructure.html CLIR and Tufts University are engaging scholars and academic librarians in examining the services … Continue reading →

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What is Web 2.0?

Posted on 2010-10-25 by Gabriel Bodard

This blog post is the introduction to a lecture on Publishing and Web 2.0 I am delivering to students on the Digital Humanities MA, and is partly intended as a venue for online discussion in the comments section. All are … Continue reading →

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DH PhD studentship at the Open University

Posted on 2010-10-14 by Gabriel Bodard

Forwarded for Elton Barker, who would be happy to answer any queries: One full-time, three year PhD studentship available from 1 January 2011 Interdisciplinary PhD Studentship in Digital Humanities Open University – Faculty of Arts Based in Milton Keynes Digital … Continue reading →

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Justifying the Humanities

Posted on 2010-10-12 by Gabriel Bodard

On the day when the Browne Report proposes cutting all government funding for teaching in the Arts and Humanities in the name of making the British university sector “more competitive”, there has of course been much online discussion (notably on … Continue reading →

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Citation in Digital Scholarship: A Conversation

Posted on 2010-10-04 by sebheath

I’m writing to bring readers’ attention to a series of pages that is coming together on the Digital Classicist wiki under the rubric “Citation in digital scholarship” (category). I take responsibility/blame for initiating the project, but it has already benefitted … Continue reading →

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