Author: Craig
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Access TEI launched
From Professor John Unsworth, UIUC, on the CentreNet List Those interested in digitizing text (whether printed or manuscript, in any language) will benefit from the AccessTEI program just launched by the Text Encoding Initiative, in partnership with Apex Covantage and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program provides bulk-pricing on the transcription
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Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Values (part three)
(A good blog post from Kathleen Fitzpatrick, an Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies, Pomona College, who has taken up the recent online debate on Open Access Publishing). Thanks to Larry Stillman for the link) There’s a fascinating exchange around open access publishing and the reasons scholars might resist it developing right now, beginning with
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Digital Humanities as an academic career path…
Here is a reflective and well-argued post from Dr Melissa Terras of UCL. She is one of the Key Notes at this years Digital Humanities conference. …but the point I am making is this. Our academic discipline does not have the same structure as traditional, more established ones. We do not have the obvious career
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Developers Challenge @ ThatCamp London (Humanities and Technology camp)
(this ‘challenge’ looks interesting. It is similar to the MashUp Australia initiative as part of the Government 2.0 agenda. I am attending this so any ideas are welcome). <quote> Announcement: Calling all Developers in the Digital Humanities! Have you a cool new way to give Humanities researchers access to digital resources? Here is a chance
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Digital Humanities @ King’s
The Digital Humanities conference starts at King’s College London on the 7th – 10th July. It promises to be an excellent event this year given the strength of the field at King’s and within the broader UK. There are a number of events around the conference including half and fill day project workshops and there
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Vatican Library to digitise 80,000 manuscripts
Thanks to Andrew T for the (link). Monsignor Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Library, sent out an “extraordinary” Newsletter 5/2010 on 24 March (see full text as posted by the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog) announcing plans to digitise 80,000 manuscripts held by the Vatican Library. Planning and consulting, as well as testing of workflow