• 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Chair and Head of Department, Department of Digital Humanities, Centre for Computing in the Humanities

    (The Digital Humanities will be very sad to see Harold Short retire. What a wonderful contribution Harold has made to the field; especially in terms of his leadership of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities…a beacon in the broader humanities). The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King’s College London is looking for…

  • What is eResearch in the Arts and Humanities

    This is the start of a ‘white paper’ on eResearch in the Arts and Humanities. Comments are most welcome (I do admittedly rely a little too much on Susan Hockey’s wonderful history of Digital Humanities in ‘A Companion to Digital Humanities).1 …by its very nature, humanities computing has had to embrace “the two cultures”, to…

  • That Camp at Digital Humanities 2010

    That Camp, is a ‘user generated’ conference focussing upon the tools, methods, and theoretical issues within the Digital Humanities. It originates from the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US and has been held in a number of other locations. ‘That Camp’ London to be help immediately before the…