CFP: UK Museums on the Web, 30 November 2012, London
The Committee of the Museums Computer Group is excited to announce that our annual conference Museums on the Web – UKMW12 – will be held at the Wellcome Collection in London on 30 November 2012.
Author: Colleen Nugent
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Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities in Educational Institutions Round-up
Humanities in the Digital Age by Alan Liu and William G. Thomas III ….As humanities chairs with a long involvement in digital issues, we have seen clearly that top-down budget cuts are often justified with arguments about how digital technologies are driving change in higher education…. So we believe that humanities faculty members, chairs, and […]
Editors’ Choice: OpenGLAM Workshop and Hackday at the OKFestival
The OKFestival [Open Knowledge Festival], the biggest open data and knowledge event ever held, has come to an end. And what a great week it was. On Tuesday we hacked on a number of Finnish cultural datasets and the 20 million openly licensed objects in Europeana. (writeup coming soon!) On Wednesday we met with a […]
CFP: Memory and the Digital Humanities: A Pecha Kucha Roundtable
Fordham University Graduate English Association’s interdisciplinary conference “Remembering, Forgetting, Imagining: The Practices of Memory,” March 1-2, 2013, Fordham University, New York, NY. Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2012.
CFP: Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives
Digital Humanities and the Study of the Web and Web Archives, Vejle, Denmark, 3-5 December 2012. Application no later than October 1, 2012
CFParticipation: TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service Testers
Do you have TEI data and an adventurous spirit? The TEI Archiving, Publishing, and Access Service (TAPAS http://www.tapasproject.org) is seeking participants to help us test early versions of the TAPAS service, now under development with generous funding from the IMLS and NEH.
Resource: Open Monograph Press from the Public Knowledge Project
Open Monograph Press is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP will operate, as well, as a press website with catalog, distribution, and sales capacities.
Resource: Paper Machines extension for Zotero
Paper Machines is an open-source extension for the Zotero bibliographic management software. Its purpose is to allow individual researchers to generate analyses and visualizations of user-provided corpora, without requiring extensive computational resources or technical knowledge.
Job: Director of Digital Strategies & Services, Smith College
Lead the Libraries and the Libraries’ Digital Strategies & Services group in collaboratively developing, integrating and supporting current and emerging technologies for all library services to enhance and improve the learning and research experience of our users. Facilitate and improve access to digital scholarly resources through a multitude of web services platforms. Lead the Libraries’ […]
Editors’ Choice: Learnable Programming
Here’s a trick question: How do we get people to understand programming?< Khan Academy recently launched an online environment for learning to program. It offers a set of tutorials based on the JavaScript and Processing languages, and features a “live coding” environment, where the program’s output updates as the programmer types. Because my work was cited as an inspiration for […]