JISC Digitisation Programme » New JISC funding opportunties. JISC has issued 5 Invitations to Tender for Digital Infrastructure Reports. Bidders must have knowledge of the topic area and must be experienced in producing high quality reports. These are open Invitations to Tender and anyone may bid. 5 Invitations to Tender for Reports on: • Advantages […]
By Daniel Chamberlain Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research
You Asked For It: Four Exciting New Viewshare Features « The Signal: Digital Preservation. Last week we quietly launched several significant improvements to Viewshare, our free and open platform for cultural heritage organizations to create interfaces to digital collections. There are a ton of major and small additions to the software, but I wanted to […]
Georeferencing: help us place our digitised maps. Are you interested in local history and old maps? Would you like to explore historic places in London and across the UK? If so, you can help the British Library. You can quickly create an online 3-D visualisation of these rare documents (with Google Earth) and compare the […]
JISC Digitisation Programme » JISC vacancy: Programme Manager Digitisation. JISC is advertising for a post of Programme Manager – e-Content: Digitisation. The post holder will be responsible for managing a range of different types of e-content projects taking place in universities and other organisations that are either digitising content or developing existing digital collections to […]
The SURFfoundation has released Users, Narcissism and Control—Tracking the Impact of Scholarly Publications in the 21st Century. Here’s an excerpt: This report explores the explosion of tracking tools that have accompanied the surge of web based information instruments. Is it possible to monitor ‘real-time’ how new research findings are being read, cited, used and transformed […]
The student assistant bursary scheme is designed to enable up to 12 international students to participate in the Digital Humanities conference 2012 at the University of Hamburg (July 16-20). In order to provide a well-balanced allocation, the bursaries will be awarded to three students from North America/UK, three from Europe (excluding Germany/UK), three from Middle/South […]
Our conference proposes to consider both the new issues facing training programs in the heritage industries and the transformations taking place on a wider scale in university and research cultures. Digital humanities suggest a new approach for studying the relations between the way heritage is defined and the manner in which digital resources circulate and are appropriated, and how they […]
Humanities computing is undergoing a redefinition of basic principles by a continuous influx of new, vibrant, and diverse communities or practitioners within and well beyond the halls of academe. These practitioners recognize the value computers add to their work, that the computer itself remains an instrument subject to continual innovation, and that competition within many […]
Anvil Academic aims to provide platform for digital scholarship | Inside Higher Ed. Two well-known organizations are teaming up with a handful of colleges and universities to try to change that by building a flexible platform where digital humanists could have their research published and certified that the work has passed through well-respected editorial gantlets. […]
