Text Encoding Initiative Seminar at Brown « Early Modern Online Bibliography. Readers may be interested in the following announcement from Julia Flanders about a special NEH-funded “Taking TEI Futher” institute. Additional information is available at the WWP’s webpage for their Seminars on Scholarly Text Encoding.
Parsing CSV Data with Ruby Computers offer us a wonderful opportunity to automate and ease some of the tasks associated with data cleanup and preparation in the humanities. After a conversation with a researcher at CESTA on Friday, I thought about a problem he was confronting with a spreadsheet of data he is collecting that contains many […]
Research Data Symposium. The Research Data Symposium, proudly hosted by Columbia University Libraries/Information Services, Columbia’s Institute for Data Sciences and Engineering, Columbia’s Libraries/Information Services’ Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) and Elsevier, is an event being held to lead discussion on topics related to managing and curating research data and a variety of other research outputs. The Symposium will […]
History of Missiology Boston University Theology Library’s collection of missionary biographies, reports, sermons and theologies provides a rich resource for the study of missiology. Building on early informal efforts to digitize portions of the collection, the Library participates in the Open Content Alliance and collaborates with the Internet Archive. This portal provides online access biographical […]
Job Opportunity: Work with Jonathan Zittrain as a Research Associate | Berkman Center. This position requires, primarily, the ability to absorb large amounts of written and other media materials from various sources (including but not restricted to: original sources, scholarly articles, news articles/blogs, interviews, databases) in a short amount of time, critically analyze that material […]
Job Details: Postdoctoral Research Associate – Graduate School of Library and Information Science (P1300007). The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is funding a postdoctoral position for up to three years at the University of Illinois. This position will be located at both at the Center for Informatics Research in Science and Scholarship (CIRSS) at the Graduate […]
TLA | 2013 TLA Plenary – Call for Proposals. The emergence of large digitized collections of humanities resources has made it possible to meaningfully address research questions that previously would have taken many lifetimes to answer. However, theater historians have undertaken relatively little of this kind of work. Despite large datasets of digitized theater reviews, […]
Of Victorian Interest: CFP: MLA 2014 Victorian Division panels on Victorian Informatics & Victorian Temporalities (3/1/2013; 1/9-12/2014). The Victorian Division seeks abstracts for a panel on Victorian Informatics.What were the properties of information in the Victorian period? Was there a Victorian culture of information? How did Victorians, amass, manage, propagate information? How did ideologies and economies of information […]
Transcriptions. Topics for the Research Slam are welcome to intersect with the above questions or to move in different directions; methods and formats might include: media experiments with big data, big image archives, and web scraping computer-aided transformations and deformations of texts and media objects inventive engagements with big data and distant reading techniques experiments […]
Visualizing the Classics – Anvil Academic. Anvil Academic and Dickinson College Commentaries announce the availability of a $1,000 prize for the best scholarly visualization of data in the field of classical studies submitted during 2013. Two runners-up will be awarded prizes of $500 each. Submissions must include: one or more visual representations of data that involves some linguistic […]
