News, Resources

Resource: TEI Boilerplate

TEI Boilerplate is a lightweight solution for publishing styled TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) P5 content directly in modern browsers. With TEI Boilerplate, TEI XML files can be served directly to the web without server-side processing or translation to HTML.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Review of Tice and Steiner’s Vasi Map

Imago Urbis: Giuseppe Vasi’s Grand Tour of Rome was created in 2008 by Jim Tice and Erik Steiner and remains, in my mind, one of the finest examples of the integration of spatial and image data into a single digital scholarly work. Only a year after the introduction of Google Street View, Tice and Steiner […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Fellowship: Library Fellow for Digital Curation and Preservation, 2012-2014: Positions Available in the MIT Libraries

Reporting to the Head of Curation and Preservation Services, the activities of this position will span the full life-cycle of digital content management through collaboration with the Institute Archives and Special Collections, Specialized Content and Services, and structured interactions with other key units of the MIT Libraries. Activities include: • Engagement in a range of […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Announcement: It’s Preservation Week! How are you celebrating it?

The Library of Congress is holding more educational and informational events this week, including seminars and webinars. If you’re looking for events or activities in your area, ALA’s Preservation Week event mapis a fantastic resource. And if you’re awareness has been raised, you can learn to care for you personal collections at home. Here are some good “starting-out” […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: “How Can You Love a Work If You Don’t Know It?”: Six Lessons from Team MARKUP

Team MARKUP evolved as a group project in Neil Fraistat’s Technoromanticism graduate seminar (English 738T) during the Spring 2012 term at the University of Maryland; our team was augmented by several students inthe sister course taught by Andrew Stauffer at the University of Virginia. The project involved using git and GitHub to manage a collaborative encoding project, practicing […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Second NeDiMAH infoviz workshop

Second NeDiMAH infoviz workshop, Call for Participation. Visual Tools and Methods in Digital Humanities: Representing, Reading, and Thinking about Knowledge Creation… 21st of July 2012 in Hamburg alongside the DH conference.   Exploring the shifting intersection between more descriptive and analytical uses of visual components in digital environments and interpretative research tools – we will […]