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CFP: rhetoric and the digital humanities

This edited collection will consist of an editors’ introduction and three sections. The first section will  consist of eight to twelve chapters that define field connections between rhetoric and the digital humanities. The second section will consist of eight to twelve chapters focused on research methodology.

News, Reports

Report: Open Access Week 2011: Wrap-Up and Resources

The event’s tagline, “Learn Share Advance”, encourages us to consider how  “open access to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted.”

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Report: Humanities researchers and digital technologies: Building infrastructures for a new age

Europe’s leading scientists have pledged to embrace and expand the role of technology in the Humanities. In a Science Policy Briefing released today by the European Science Foundation (ESF), they argue that without Research Infrastructures (RIs) such as archives, libraries, academies, museums and galleries, significant strands of Humanities research would not be possible.

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Report: The European Commission Recommendation on Digitisation and Digital Preservation

The Recommendation asks Member States to step up their efforts, pool their resources and involve private actors in digitising cultural material and making it available through Europeana.

In particular, the Recommendation invites Member States to put in place solid plans for their investments in digitisation, make available through Europeana 30 million objects by 2015, get more in-copyright material online, and reinforce their strategies and adapt their legislation to ensure long-term preservation of digital material.