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CFParticipation: Postcolonial Digital Humanities #dhpoco Summer School

#dhpoco Summer School is an informal, month-long collaborative online course exploring issues related to Postcolonial Digital Humanities. Through readings, discussion boards, and optional video conferences, participants will learn more about #dhpoco and make meaningful connections with fellow scholars. Postcolonial Digital Humanities | Coming Soon: #dhpoco Summer School.

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Editors’ Choice: Metadata Games

Metadata Games is an online game system for gathering useful data on photo, audio, and moving image artifacts, enticing those who might not visit archives to explore humanities content while contributing to vital records. Furthermore, the suite enables archivists to gather and analyze information for image archives in novel and possibly unexpected ways. Check out […]

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Conference: Automatic Pattern Recognition and Historical Handwritting Analysis

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The number of historical documents which are available in digital form has dramatically increased throughout the last five to ten years.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 […]

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CFP: The Philosophy of Information

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, […]

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Resource: Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do

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 […]

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Resource: North Carolina Runaway Slave Advertisements

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 […]