The Call for Papers is open from now until midnight on 2 April, 2013. Contributions are invited for papers on all aspects of digital heritage, with a focus on interfaces with the past: audio, visual, spatial, or textual. We welcome proposals for 15-minute presentations, posters, and practical demonstrations. Speakers should email a 200-word abstract to cdh-2013@york.ac.uk with an indication of their preferred format. CDH…
Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information. We welcome anyone and everyone interested in open information, reusable documents, vendor and application independence, and the other benefits of descriptive markup. Participants typically include XML users, librarians, archivists, computer scientists, XSLT and XQuery…
The V&A is inviting applications from early to mid-career UK-based digital games designers who wish to develop their practice in response to the V&A’s Britain 1500 – 1900 galleries. The Residency will be based in the V&A for six months, and will include a substantial public engagement programme. It will be followed by a production period…
We invite applications for a 4-day training workshop on digital text-markup for epigraphic and papyrological editing, to be held in the Institute for Classical Studies, London. The workshop will be taught by Gabriel Bodard (KCL), James Cowey (Heidelberg) and Charlotte Tupman (KCL). There will be no charge for the teaching, but participants will have to…
Taking place from May 27th to July 3rd on the campus of Michigan State University, the 2013 Cultural Heritage Informatics (CHI) Fieldschool will introduce students to the tools and techniques required to creatively apply information and computing technologies to cultural heritage materials and questions. The CHI Fieldschool is a unique experience that employs the model…
On March 15–16, Simmons will be hosting a conference titled “Digital Humanities: The Next Generation.” You can read the CFP. I’d like to put together a moderated discussion with the working title “DH Methods in the Traditional Dissertation.” Panelists Wanted: DH Methods in the Traditional Dissertation – Lincoln A. Mullen.
Harvard Postdoctoral Fellowship in East Asian Digital Humanities and Social Sciences – CLA: Department of American Studies. Post-Doc in East Asian Studies:The John K. Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University invite applications for a special post-doctoral fellowship for a recent Ph.D. in any field…
Call for Proposals: Digital Frontiers 2013 (Sept. 19-21, 2013, University of North Texas) | laurie n. taylor. Call for Proposals: Digital Frontiers 2013 September 19-21, 2013 University of North Texas, Denton, TX The University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Co-Operative and UNT Libraries invite proposals for Digital Frontiers 2013, a conference that brings together the…
Natural Earth. Natural Earth is a public domain map dataset available at 1:10m, 1:50m, and 1:110 million scales. Featuring tightly integrated vector and raster data, with Natural Earth you can make a variety of visually pleasing, well-crafted maps with cartography or GIS software.
batch renaming archive photos « parezco y digo. As I’ve written about on a number of other occasions (here and here), I love using a digital camera for archival research. I’m an evangelist with graduate students, undergrads writing honors theses, and any of my colleagues who will listen for using digital cameras in the archive, something I’ve…