Category: digital humanities
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Keynote speakers announced: Digital Humanities 2009
The speakers for Digital Humanities 2009 have been announced. And what a refreshing change to the Digital Humanities agenda. The first is Lev Manovich, Professor of New Media at UCSD, who wrote the brilliant ‘Language of New Media’ back in 2001. And the second is Chrsitine Borgman, Professor of Information Studies at UCLA who wrote…
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News from the Office of the Digital Humanities (US)
1) Guidelines for Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Would your institution like to host a summer training institute or seminar on a topic in the digital humanities? If you have some local expertise, why not share with your colleagues from around the country? Deadline for this program is February 18th and the…
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What is Aus-e-lit?
(Thanks to the Arts and Humanities eScience support centre at King’s for the link) The Aus-e-Lit project aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture. AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between the National Library of Australia and twelve Universities. It provides an important resource…
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JISC Digitisation Projects
Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching and research The JISC Digitisation programme is founded upon the need to build significant e-resources from some of the UK’s greatest collections in a wide variety of formats – sound, images, journals, moving pictures, newspapers and much else. Using the latest technology available, the projects provide the…
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E-research award supports archive of endangered languages
An archival project that aims to preserve ‘endangered languages’ from across Australia and the Pacific region in a massive database has been rewarded with a major e-research award presented to researchers in the University of Melbourne’s School of Languages and Linguistics. The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) project has…
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Thursday 6 November, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Room 274/5 (Stewart House), 17:30 – 19:30 Speaker: Martin Mueller (Northwestern) on “The Importance of Not-Reading?†A century ago the German nonsense poet Christian Morgenstern wrote a poem about text-condensing spectacles. Referring to itself as an example of the power of those spectacles, the poem…