CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: SHARP 2013 – Geographies of the Book

SHARP 2013 – Call for Papers We invite submissions for the 21st annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), to be held in Philadelphia from July 18-21, 2013. The program will take place primarily on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Sponsors include the University of Pennsylvania […]

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Resource: Oberlin in Asia Digital Collection

Oberlin in Asia Digital Collection. The Oberlin Shansi Memorial Association, the Oberlin College East Asian Studies Program, and the Oberlin College Archives and Library present this online digital collection that documents the activity of Oberlinians in Asia from the 1880s to the 1950s. This teaching and research collection contains materials from the Oberlin Shansi Memorial […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Opportunity: CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships – Call for 2013 Fellows

CENDARI Visiting Research Fellowships – Call for 2013 Fellows. CENDARI (Collaborative European Digital Archive Infrastructure) invites applications for its Visiting Research Fellowship Programme for 2013.  The fellowships are being funded through the CENDARI project by the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for Research. Visiting Research Fellowships are available in the following CENDARI partner institutions     Trinity […]

Announcements, News

Announcement: “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums”, Wednesday November 28

Wednesday November 28: “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” » CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative. Wednesday November 28: “The Commons and Digital Humanities in Museums” Co-Sponsored by the Ph.D. Program in Art History and The Center for the Humanities  Christina DePaolo (Balboa Park Online Collaborative), Michael Edson (Smithsonian), William Noel (University of Pennsylvania), Neal Stimler (Metropolitan Museum of […]

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Resource: Forking, Fetching, Pushing, Pulling

Scholars’ Lab. Even though a lot of open source projects encourage folks to look at the code and modify it, they don’t just let anyone add anything back to the original project. Projects usually have one or several people with direct commit access, who don’t need permission to do commits. This doesn’t mean you can’t […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Director of Digital Access, Folger Shakespeare Library

Employment and Internships-Folger Shakespeare Library. The Folger Shakespeare Library invites nominations and applications for the position of Director of Digital Access. Founded in 1932, the Folger is home to the world’s largest collection of Shakespeare-related materials and the finest collection of early Continental and British printed works outside England. It offers an expansive range of […]

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Resource: CORPORA: 45-450 million words each

CORPORA: 45-450 million words each: free online access. These corpora were created by Mark Davies, Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University. They have many different uses, including: finding out how native speakers actually speak and write; looking at language variation and change; finding the frequency of words, phrases, and collocates; and designing authentic language teaching materials and resources. The […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: Games on Games project

Games on Games project « G|A|M|E. The Games on Games project originates from the hypothesis that it is possible and fruitful to critique videogames and their related themes by adopting their own forms, mechanics and languages. The meta-referential intention to transpose scientific research from written word to the playing field opens up a range of different challenges, such as: Is […]