This chapter will provide a general orientation to some of the historical and theoretical context needed for understanding both contemporary text encoding practices and the various ongoing debates that surround those practices. We will be focusing for the most part, although not exclusively, on “markup”, as markup-related techniques and systems not only dominate practical encoding activity, but are also at the center of most of the theoretical debates about text encoding (link)

Cite as: A Companion to Digital Humanities, ed. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. Oxford: Blackwell, 2004.
http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/

http://www.dariah.eu/

What is DARIAH?

DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts and Humanities) is a project to support the digitisation of arts and humanities data across Europe. (((Strictly speaking, that should be “DRIAH.” Maybe history was dry enough already.)))

DARIAH brings together researchers, information managers and information providers. It gives them a technical framework that enables enhanced data-sharing among research communities. (((One quails at the awesome power of state-supported European digital culture.))) (link)

Thanks to Alexis B for the link

How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make obsolete? What is the future of the rare book and manuscript library and its use? What biases are inherent in the widespread use of digitized material? How can we correct for them? Amidst numerous benefits in accessibility, cost, and convenience, what concerns have been overlooked? (link)

4th Symposium, Cultural Heritage Knowledge Visualisation, CHKV

A symposium in the 14th International Conference Information Visualisation, 26,
27-29 July 2010, London South Bank University, London, UK.

http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/ Click on Symposia hypertext

Important Dates:
1 March 2010: Submission of papers
16 April 2010: Notification of Peer Review Result
30 April 2010: Submission of camera-ready
7 May 2010: Early registration closes

Paper Format Guide: (Not more than 6 pages – excess pages at 25 GBP per page.)
http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV09/INSTRUCTION.htm

Over the last 2 decades we have seen a shift from the physical confines of the
‘houses of knowledge’ – traditional museum, cultural galleries, knowledge
institutes – to more online, mobile, accessible interactive displays of
cultural heritage knowledge. From books, physical displays and site-specific
places of cultural heritage significance, many more can now access these
repositories remotely. As touring 3D installations, interactive online
applications, images, text, audio and video, access to cultural heritage
knowledge has never been so accessible. What does this mean to those who’s
heritage is on display? What protocols are needed to protect the integrity of
the knowledge included? And, what new knowledge do we gain through these
technological interventions and expositions of cultural heritage? These are
only some of the many questions raised in this emerging field of Cultural
Heritage Knowledge Visualisation.

The symposium seeks original projects that deal with, but are not limited to,
the following topics:

* Heritage Visualisation
* Culture Visualisation
* Visualising Society Networks
* Visualising Cultural Heritage Knowledge Practices
* Developing Protocols for Cultural Heritage Knowledge Visualisation
* Cultural Heritage Knowledge Semantics
* Narrative Visualisation
* Cultural Heritage Knowledge Ethics

Symposium Cultural Heritage Knowledge Visualisation Liaison

Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia

Advisory, Programme and reviewing committee:
Theodor G Wyeld, Flinders University, Australia
Sarah Kenderdine (Museum Victoria, Aust)
Ekaterina Prasolova-Førland (NTNU, Trondheim)
Teng-Wen Chang (NYUST, Taiwan)
Brett Leavy (CyberDreaming, Aust)
Malcolm Pumpa (QUT, Aust)
Marinos Ioannides (HTI, Cyprus)
Giovanni Issini (DFI, Italy)

Special Journal Edition for selected papers: TBA.

Supporting Bodies:
Flinders Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural
Exchange,
Flinders University, Australia

HOST: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/

All enquiries about Cultural Heritage Knowledge Visualisation should be
addressed to:
Theodor Wyeld
Digital Media Studies
Flinders University
GPO Box 2100
Adelaide 5001
South Australia

ph: +06 8 8201 3264
fx: +06 8 8201 3635
em: theodor.wyeld@flinders.edu.au
wb: ehlt.flinders.edu.au/screen/staff/wyeld.php

URL: http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV10/CHKV.htm

Instructions for Authors
All submitted papers are peer reviewed by at least 3 reviewers. Authors are
invited to upload full original papers to the conference online submission
system by February 25, 2009, http://www.conftool.net/IV2010. Electronic
submissions (PDF) are recommended and should be formatted according to the
instructions for papers at http://www.graphicslink.co.uk/IV09/PAPERS.htm. The
final manuscripts for full papers are expected to be no more than 6 pages – up
to 4 excess pages may be purchased and is set by publisher at 25 GBP per page.

– Theodor Wyeld Director of Studies Digital Media Studies Flinders University GPO Box 2100 Adelaide 5001 South Australia ph: +06 8 8201 3264 fx: +06 8 8201 3635 em: theodor.wyeld@flinders.edu.au wb: ehlt.flinders.edu.au/screen/staff/wyeld.php

Today there is a growing abundance of data often in large-scale collections or with great complexity. It is pertinent to every pressing strategic challenge, to the deep questions that research addresses and the urgent application sciences. A great deal of thought is needed to improve our capabilities to use data well in a wide variety of research endeavours. The workshop will bring together practitioners, theoreticians and technologists with a wide range of viewpoints to shape a strategy for the thinking and research that is needed.

The cross-fertilisation of ideas between disciplines and viewpoints will spark new insights and steer us towards more effective strategies. This will be captured as a map of the research challenges and potential routes to address them with flags indicating where groups and individuals are working and what they plan. It will draw attention to identified gaps.

The purpose of this meeting is to bring together experts in a complementary set of areas of Data-Intensive Research, bring each other up to speed on the thinking in other areas and then identify research challenges and strategies (from the UK’s National eScience Institute)

Call for Presentations

The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars
at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with
support from the British Library, in Summer 2010 on the subject of
research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital
component. We are especially interested in work that demonstrates
interdisciplinarity or work on the intersections between Ancient
History, Classics or Archaeology and a digital, technical or
practice-based discipline.

The Digital Classicist seminars run on Friday afternoons from June to
August in Senate House, London. In previous years collected papers
from the DC WiP seminars have been published* in a special issue of an
online journal (2006), edited as a printed volume (2007), and released
as audio podcasts (2008-9); we anticipate similar publication
opportunities for future series. A small budget is available to help
with travel costs.

Please send a 300-500 word abstract to by
March 31st 2010. We shall announce the full programme in April.

Regards,

The organizers
Gabriel Bodard, King’s College London
Stuart Dunn, King’s College London
Juan Garcés, Greek Manuscripts Department, British Library
Simon Mahony, University College London
Melissa Terras, University College London

* See http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/journal/4/ (2006),
http://www.gowerpublishing.com/default.aspx?page=637&calctitle=1&pageSubject=1064&sort=pubdate&forthcoming=1&title_id=9797&edition_id=12252
(2007), http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/index.html (2008-9).

– Dr Gabriel BODARD (Epigrapher & Digital Classicist) Centre for Computing in the Humanities King’s College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Email: gabriel.bodard@kcl.ac.uk Tel: +44 (0)20 7848 1388 Fax: +44 (0)20 7848 2980 http://www.digitalclassicist.org/ http://www.currentepigraphy.org/