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Resource: Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding

Interested in teaching or learning TEI? The slides, lecture notes, and other materials here were developed by the WWP for the workshops we teach, but they can also be a starting point for self-guided study. They are made available here for public reuse under a Creative Commons license. For versions of these materials that were […]

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Resource: Stemmaweb from the Tree of Texts Project

We are pleased to present Stemmaweb, which was developed in cooperation with members of the Interedition project and which provides an online interface to examining text collations and their stemmata. Stemmaweb has two homes: http://treeoftexts.arts.kuleuven.be/stemmaweb/ (the official KU Leuven site) http://byzantini.st/stemmaweb/ (Tara’s personal server, less official but much faster) via The Tree of Texts | […]

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Resource: Understanding OCR Materials available from Chronicling America, Library of Congress

Partly because of NDNP’s participation in the NEH’s Digging Into Data program, as well as the interest from other individuals and organizations [the Library of Congress] recently started making data dumps of the OCR content available. This same OCR data is available as part of the batch data mentioned above, but the dumps provide two […]

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding: Small Grants 2013 from Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC)

ALLC: The European Association for Digital Humanities invites submissions for small grants for workshop and project support. Submissions are expected to be in the range from € 800 to € 2,000. The total amount available in this call is € 10,000. Proposals must be received by 15 November, 2012. Notification of the results will be […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Tenure track position, Information Visualization at SLIS, University of Wisconsin–Madison

The School of Library and Information Studies, in partnership with the Living Environments Lab (LEL) at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID), seeks applications for a full time tenure track position, at any level, in the broad area of Information Visualization. Desired emphases include visual depictions of data from complex systems, cognitive studies of how […]

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Job: Open Rank Faculty Position, Digital Humanities and Other Areas, U. Illinois U-C

GSLIS seeks to hire an outstanding full-time faculty member to join our iSchool. Strong candidates in any area relating to the organization, management, preservation, and retrieval of information, and the production and transmission of knowledge are encouraged to apply. We are particularly interested in specializations that directly contribute to our leading program in data curation, […]

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Job: Asst Prof, English/EVST/Digital Humanities, UConn Storrs

The English Department at the University of Connecticut, Storrs Campus, invites applications for a FT (9-mo.) tenure-track faculty position at Assistant Professor level, with a specialty in Nature Writing (non U.S.) and strong interests in Environmental Studies and Digital Humanities, to start Fall 2013. via Job Announcement: UConn English/EVST/Digital Humanities Assistant Professor | Ecomedia Studies.

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Announcement: Europeana metadata now available under CCO Public Domain

The digital portal Europeana opens up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. The massive dataset is the descriptive information about Europe’s digitised treasures. For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose – […]

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Resource: A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities, from London School of Economics

Available to download as a PDF or view on Issuu. We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

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Opportunity: Mentorship program from DHCommons and Association for Computers and the Humanities

The ACH is very pleased to announce a partnership with DHCommons meant to broaden our successful digital humanities mentorship program. The ACH’s mentorship program matches newcomers to the digital humanities with experienced advisors in the field for job market advice, networking, and professional guidance.If you would like to participate, visit the DHCommons sign-up page and complete the ACH Mentoring […]