Category: digital humanities
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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…
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Virtual Research Environments: VRE Programme Phases 2 & 3
A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) enables a group of researchers, often across several institutions, to work collaboratively by forming a social structure and sharing resources over the internet. According to Michael Fraser, University of Oxford, ‘a VRE comprises a set of online tools and other network resources and technologies interoperating with each other to facilitate…