Opportunity: New PhD Studentship, AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership with the British Library
‘Provincial Shakespeare Performance’ fully funded PhD studentship, University of Nottingham/British Library –closing date 7 June 2013
Category: News
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The number of historical documents which are available in digital form has dramatically increased throughout the last five to ten years.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 […]
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, […]
Opportunity: Digital Treasures PhD Scholarships, University of Canberra
The Centre for Creative and Cultural Research is seeking two PhD students to join its new Flagship Program, Digital Treasures. Digital Treasures PhD Scholarships: Call for Applications : Faculty of Arts and Design : University of Canberra.
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 […]
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 […]
CFP: Design and the Digital Humanities, Midwest MLA
With this year’s M/MLA topic of “Art & Artifice,” the new Permanent Section on Digital Humanities will explore issues of, experiments with, and provocations on design. CFP: Design and the Digital Humanities – Josh Honn.
Resource: Prism for Play
This week marks the release of a new version of Prism, a web-based tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation,” constructed over the course of two academic years by two separate cohorts of graduate fellows in our Praxis Program at the Scholars’ Lab.
Resource: On Digital History: Information about Digital Preservation Tools
This week the Digital POWRR project staff has posted a large amount of information describing approximately eighty tools used in digital preservation activities. See http://digitalpowrr.niu.edu/tool-grid/. While a relatively small number of general, integrated front end/ingest applications like Archivematica and Curator’s Workbench are currently available, individuals and institutions pondering a digital preservation initiative can also bring […]
Job: University of Leipzig, Humboldt Chair in Digital Humanities
In February 2013, the Humboldt Chair of Digital Humanities announced possible jobs. Funding from the European Social Fund has now been finalized ( “http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/02/reinventing-humanities-publication-project-receives-e1-1-million-grant-from-the-saxon-ministry-of-science-and-european-social-fund/”>http://sites.tufts.edu/perseusupdates/2013/05/02/reinventing-humanities-publication-project-receives-e1-1-million-grant-from-the-saxon-ministry-of-science-and-european-social-fund/) and we are pleased to announce two positions: one for someone to supervise systems and text processing workflow; the other for someone with expertise in interactive design. Applicants should have completed […]