Resource: Tim O’Reilly on Digital Preservation at the 2011 NDIIPP/NDSA Partners Meeting
A digital video of Tim O’Reilly’s keynote speech about digital preservation at the 2011 NDIIPP/NDSA Partners Meeting is now available.
Category: News
Report: ‘The Future of the Past of the Web’? Digital Preservation Coalition Workshop British Library, 7 October 2011
‘The Future of the Past of the Web’, Digital Preservation Coalition Workshop British Library, 7 October 2011 by Chrissie Webb and Liz McCarthy.
Resource: Replication data for “New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery, and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan” by Jill Lepore
This database contains demographic information about the City of New York in the 1730s and 1740s. I compiled this data for my research into an alleged slave rebellion in 1741.
Resource: Virginia Historical Society Launches Searchable Online Database of Slave Names
Unknown No Longer: A Database of Virginia Slave Names contains personal information about enslaved Virginians gleaned from some of the more than eight million processed manuscripts in VHS collections
Resource: Digital Curation:The Emergence of a New Discipline
Sarah Higgins has published “Digital Curation:The Emergence of a New Discipline” in the latest issue of the International Journal of Digital Curation.
Conference: DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting
The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities will be held at Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012.
CFP: Special issue of Metaphilosophy journal dedicated to the Philosophy of the Web
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Philosophy of the Web: Special issue of Metaphilosophy.
Job: UNL announces Digital Humanities cluster hire
The University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) announces a cluster hire in digital humanities: over the next three years the university intends to hire six tenure-line faculty members across a number of departments (and additional staff) to further propel this signature program. For more information, please visit the CDRH announcement.
Conference: 2012 Digital Humanities Summer Institute, Registration and Scholarships
2012 Digital Humanities Summer Institute
4-8 June 2012, University of Victoria
We are pleased to announce the 2012 Digital Humanities Summer Institute! The DHSI at the University of Victoria provides an ideal environment for discussing and learning about new computing technologies and how they are influencing the work of those in the Arts, Humanities and Library communities. The institute takes place across a week of intensive coursework, seminar participation, and lectures. It brings together faculty, staff, and graduate students from different areas of the Arts, Humanities, Library and Archives communities and beyond.
CFP: Personal Digital Archiving 2012, Feb 23-24, San Francisco
The Personal Digital Archiving 2012 Conference is now open for
participation! We welcome proposals for session topics and speakers, as
well as volunteers to help us organize and serve on site