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Resource: BagIt Plugin

Scholars’ Lab. Continuing our roll-out of Omeka plugins we’ve been working on here at the Scholars’ Lab, I’m pleased to announce the BagIt plugin for Omeka. BagIt is a specification by the Library of Congressfor creating containers of files with metadata. However, the files don’t actually have to be in the container. There is a fetch.txt file, which lists URLs for content […]

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CFP: Memory and the Digital Humanities: A Pecha Kucha Roundtable

CFP: Memory and the Digital Humanities: A Pecha Kucha Roundtable | HASTAC. Deadline for submissions: November 15, 2012 Fordham University Graduate English Association’s interdisciplinary conference “Remembering, Forgetting, Imagining: The Practices of Memory” March 1-2, 2013 Fordham University, New York, NY Call for Papers: Do digital platforms change the way we remember? How will the myriad […]

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Resource: the SolrSearch Plugin

Scholars’ Lab. The Scholars’ Lab is pleased to announce the first release of the SolrSearch Omeka plugin. SolrSearch allows you to replace Omeka’s default search with Solr. Solr is a standard, popular, open source, fast text search engine server. It handles hit highlighting, date math, numeric aggregation functions (mean, max, etc.), indexing for 33 languages, replication, and many, many […]

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Resource: GitHub Training

GitHub Training. Free GitHub classes and Office Hours GitHub offers free, short, topical online classes about GitHub, Git, and the union of these two technologies. We rotate through various topics every few months and are constantly looking to introduce new topics and concepts into the mix. Office Hours are free events following our free classes that allow any […]

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CFP: The 6th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy: The Scandal of Computation – What is Computation?

The 6th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy: The Scandal of Computation – What is Computation?. April 2 – 5th 2013 University of Exeter, Exeter, UK As part of the AISB Annual Convention 2013 Organised by the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) Website:  http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/AISB-Symposium-2013/Pages/default.aspx Poster: http://extranet.smuc.ac.uk/events-conferences/AISB-Symposium-2013/Documents/AISB-Symposium-2013-Poster.pdf SYMPOSIUM OVERVIEW What is computation? Society builds […]

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Resource: Digitising your collection – Part 1: Project Planning

Digitising your collection – Part 1: Project Planning. This is the first in a series of posts on starting a digitisation program. In the series we’ll be talking about: project planning; technical specifications; handling the archives; scanning tips; file storage, and; metadata and access. Much of this advice is based on experiences at State Records […]

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CFP: HASTAC Conference 2013

CFP: HASTAC Conference 2013 | HASTAC. Call for Papers: HASTAC 2013 — The Decennial The Storm of Progress: New Horizons, New Narratives, New Codes April 25-28, 2013 York University, Toronto, Canada Submissions will be accepted online: October 5 – November 15, 2012 What’s next? 2013 marks the 10th anniversary of HASTAC’s founding. In that spirit […]

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CFParticipation: American Library Assoc. and Library & Info Tech Assoc. Seek Submissions for Cutting-edge Technology Practices Awards

The American Library Association’s (ALA) Office for Information Technology Policy (OITP) and the Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) are now soliciting submissions for the best library practices using cutting-edge technology. Nominations must be submitted by November 6, 2012, and winners will be announced at the upcoming January 2013 ALA Midwinter Meeting.

Job Announcements, News

Job: Asst. Prof. English and Digital Humanities, Southern New Hampshire U.

The School of Arts and Sciences at Southern New Hampshire University seeks candidates for three full-time positions in the English Department at the assistant professor rank starting September 2013. The positions will serve composition in relation to our new general education program. Therefore, the successful candidate for one of these positions will also specialize in […]