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CFParticipation: Digital Technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri

From the ad: Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015 Friday August 15 at 16:30 in room G21A, Senate House, Malet Street, London, WC1E 7HU Sarah Hendriks (CISPE: Centro Internazionale Studio dei Papiri Ercolanesi, Naples): ‘Digital technologies and the Herculaneum Papyri’ The technology available today could not even be dreamed of over […]

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Resource: DH Job Hunting

From the post: “Digital humanities” jobs exist in many different forms across different professional fields and disciplines. When seeking a digital humanities job, I recommend that the seeker narrow her focus to the kind of work that she wants to do and in what type of profession. Below is list of suggested places to find […]

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Job: Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies, Brown University

From the posting: Brown University Library seeks a dynamic, visionary leader for the role of Associate University Librarian for Digital Technologies. This position provides strong leadership and strategic direction in the development, delivery, and integration of new and existing systems, technology services, and digital initiatives across the libraries. S/he supervises department heads for the following […]

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CFParticipation: DiXiT Convention about Technology, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition

From the announcement: Registration is possible for the DiXiT convention about Technology, Software, Standards for the Digital Scholarly Edition. DiXiT is a training network for young scholarly editors supported by the European Commission. The convention takes place September 16 to 18 at the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands in The Hague. Find […]

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Resource: Belfast Group Poetry – Networks

Meeting at Philip Hobsbaum’s house in the shadow of Queen’s University, the Group read and commented on the drafts of each others’ poems, plays, and stories. Notable members of the Group included Seamus Heaney, Paul Muldoon, and Michael Longley. Read drafts from these poets and others. Belfast Group Poetry|Networks.

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CFParticipation: Digital Classicist London & Institute of Classical Studies Seminar 2015

  GALEN is a long-term project to produce the first comprehensive digital corpus of translations between Greek, Arabic and Latin. The project seeks not only to include the medieval translations from Greek into Arabic (8th-10th Century AD) and again from Arabic into Latin (11th -13th Century AD), but also to comprise the modern translations of […]

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Announcement: Walters Art Museum goes CC0

From the announcement: In 2012, the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland, became one of the first American cultural institutions to adopt an open license model for their digitized collections. Using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 license, they released over 18,000 images into the OpenGLAM world. These images were not only available via the Walters website, […]

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Announcement: Dat Goes Beta

  From the announcement: Dat is a data collaboration tool. We think most people will use it to simplify the process of downloading and updating datasets, but we are also very excited about how people will use it to fork, collaborate on, and publish new datasets for others to consume.   View the full announcement or View […]

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Job: Teaching Fellow in Digital Asset & Media Management

From the announcement: This post is a 12-month teaching fellow position available from the 1st September 2015 in the Department of Digital Humanities. The successful applicant will deliver excellent postgraduate and undergraduate teaching on the rapidly growing MA in Digital Asset and Media Management (MA DAMM), in particular on the core module and the optional […]

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Resource: Annotags — a Decentralized Textual Annotation Protocol

Problems How can we tweet about specific parts of a book? #HarryPotterAndTheSorcerer’sStonePage23Paragraph11 isn’t practical. How can we write in the margins of ebooks? How can we have conversations in the margins? Annotags: a Decentralized Solution Not a product, platform, or service. A protocol for encoding text metadata into a hashtag. These hashtags can be posted […]