I’ve been conversing with several different music scholars lately about methodology in corpus studies. Some of this has taken place on this blog, some on Twitter, and some over email. I’ve been talking about the same thing with a bunch of different people in a bunch of different places, when this is a conversation that […]
Born Digital: Guidance for Donors, Dealers, and Archival Repositories offers recommendations to help ensure the physical and intellectual well being of born-digital materials transferred from donors to archival repositories. The main body of the report surveys the primary issues and concerns related to born-digital acquisitions and is intended for a broad audience with varying levels of […]
Digital Preservation Coalition Technology Watch Report is now available: The purpose of this paper is to provide a broad overview of digital forensics, with some pointers to resources and tools that may benefit cultural heritage and, specifically, the curation of personal digital archives.
The conference aims to bring together scholars involved in the creation of oral sources, for both individual research and archival purposes, with the intent to discuss the potential use and impact of digitized collections of narratives related to war and trauma, across disciplinary and national boundaries. Because of the specific context in which the CroMe […]
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.
