Job: Library Digital Infrastructure and Technology Coordinator at University of Denver Library
The University of Denver Library is recruiting a Library Digital Infrastructure and Technology Coordinator.
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Resource: Teaching HTML & CSS
This week I twice taught a two-hour workshop introducing Emory people (students, faculty, and staff) to the very basics of HTML & CSS. The workshop was called How a Website is Born: The Very Basics of HTML & CSS.
Resource: TEI in other formats; part the second: Theory
In my first post on this subject, I poked a bit at how one might represent TEI in HTML without discarding the text model from the TEI document. Now I want to talk a bit more about that model, and the theory behind it.
CFP: Beyond Accessibility (INKE)
The Textual Studies team of INKE (Implementing New Knowledge Environments) wish to invite presentation proposals for Beyond Accessibility: Textual Studies in the 21st Century held June 8-10, 2012 at the University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada.
Editors’ Choice: Mapping Wikipedia: Geolocated Articles as a Proxy of Culture and Attention
I thought, why not map the places that had Wikipedia articles associated with them, to see what patterns emerged. The results of this excursion are presented below.
DBpedia is the ongoing attempt to transform Wikipedia into a semantically rich and queryable database of human knowledge. It stores much of the categorical information found in Wikipedia articles using RDF triples–simple links for every snippet of data, from the death date of a famous (and sometimes even real) person to the season number of every Simpsons episode, to the latitude and longitude of over half a million articles on a wide variety of subjects.
Jon is the director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West, and he brought with him two undergraduate research assistants, Jenny Rempel
Resource: The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide
A collaboratively produced introduction to the field of Digital Humanities. The guide is a project of the CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative (DHI), a new working group aimed at building connections and community among those at CUNY who are – or would like to be – applying digital technologies to research and pedagogy in the humanities.
Resource: Digital Curation LinkedIn Group Launched
This group discusses digital curation, which the Digital Curation Centre defines as “maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital research data throughout its lifecycle.”
CFP: Working with text in a digital age – NEH Institute at Tufts University
July 23-August 11, 2012 Tufts University, Medford MA
This institute will provide participants with three weeks in which (1) to develop hands on experience with TEI-XML, (2) to apply methods from information retrieval, text visualization, and corpus and computational linguistics to the analysis of textual and linguistic sources in the humanities, (3) to rethink not only their own research agendas but also new relationships between their work and non-specialists.
Job: Associate University Librarian for Research – Univ. of Michigan – Ann Arbor
The University of Michigan Library seeks an entrepreneurial, collaborative, innovative, and service-oriented leader for the new position of Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Research.
Resource: Information needs in digital humanities (Survey from MLS students at U. of Maryland)
You can help a class group project from the MLS program at the University of Maryland with the info needs of digital humanities by taking this brief (16 question) survey