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Conference: Automatic Pattern Recognition and Historical Handwritting Analysis

By the Editors | May 16, 2013

http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/conference-automatic-pattern-recognition-and-historical-handwritting-analysis/ The number of historical documents which are available in digital form has dramatically increased throughout the last five to ten years. Consequently, there has also been a significant growth in the development of computerized tools for the support of the analysis of such documents. The project “Script and Signs. A Computer-based Analysis of Highmedieval [...]

CFP: The Philosophy of Information

By the Editors | May 16, 2013

http://figureground.ca/2013/05/13/topoi-calls-for-papers-the-philosophy-of-information/ TOPOI – Calls For Papers: The Philosophy of Information Deadline for paper submissions: 1 August 2013. Guest Editors: Bert Baumgaertner, UC Davies and University of Idaho Luciano Floridi, University of Hertfordshire and University of Oxford INTRODUCTION: The information revolution has been changing the world profoundly and irreversibly for some time now, at a breathtaking pace, [...]

Opportunity: Digital Treasures PhD Scholarships, University of Canberra

By the Editors | May 16, 2013

The Centre for Creative and Cultural Research is seeking two PhD students to join its new Flagship Program, Digital Treasures. Digital Treasures PhD Scholarships: Call for Applications : Faculty of Arts and Design : University of Canberra.

Resource: Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do

By the Editors | May 16, 2013

Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do | The Signal: Digital Preservation. Preservation Week 2013 might be over, but digital preservation must go on every week of the year. In truth, preservation is an ongoing, long lasting process that requires active management. Don’t despair, though. I have some helpful suggestions to help keep you in the preservation-y [...]

Resource: North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements

By the Editors | May 16, 2013

The North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements project provides online access to all known runaway slave advertisements (more than 2300 items) published in North Carolina newspapers from 1751 to 1840. These brief ads provide a glimpse into the social, economic, and cultural world of the American slave system and the specific experience within North Carolina. Working from microfilmed copies [...]

CFP: Design and the Digital Humanities, Midwest MLA

By the Editors | May 16, 2013

With this year’s M/MLA topic of “Art & Artifice,” the new Permanent Section on Digital Humanities will explore issues of, experiments with, and provocations on design. CFP: Design and the Digital Humanities – Josh Honn.

Resource: Prism for Play

By the Editors | May 14, 2013

This week marks the release of a new version of Prism, a web-based tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation,” constructed over the course of two academic years by two separate cohorts of graduate fellows in our Praxis Program at the Scholars’ Lab.

Resource: On Digital History: Information about Digital Preservation Tools

By the Editors | May 14, 2013

This week the Digital POWRR project staff has posted a large amount of information describing approximately eighty tools used in digital preservation activities. See http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/tool-grid/. While a relatively small number of general, integrated front end/ingest applications like Archivematica and Curator’s Workbench are currently available, individuals and institutions pondering a digital preservation initiative can also bring [...]

Job: University of Leipzig, Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities

By the Editors | May 14, 2013

In February 2013, the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities announced possible jobs. Funding from the European Social Fund has now been finalized ( “http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/02/reinventing-humanities-publication-project-receives-e1-1-million-grant-from-the-saxon-ministry-of-science-and-european-social-fund/”>http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/02/reinventing-humanities-publication-project-receives-e1-1-million-grant-from-the-saxon-ministry-of-science-and-european-social-fund/) and we are pleased to announce two positions: one for someone to supervise systems and text processing workflow; the other for someone with expertise in interactive design. Applicants should have completed [...]

Report: “And If Your Head Explodes With Dark Forebodings Too”: The Dark Side of the Digital (Conference Review)

By the Editors | May 14, 2013

From May 2-4 the Center for 21st Century Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hosted a conference titled “Dark Side of the Digital” (Twitter: #c21dsd). The conference brought together scholars of media, literature, sociology, communications, law and policy, and the general orientation of the conference was to explore, in a relatively free environment, the worries and concerns scholars have about [...]

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