Notions of place, space, and site are theorized and put into practice in distinct ways across various academic fields. Spatial technologies and location services and tools, along with the rise of geo-humanities work, are bringing the tensions among ideas of place, space, and site to the surface. The 2016 DH Forum seeks to explore the…
The Digital Classicist is holding an “online sprint” on Tuesday 31 May, from 16–18h BST (= 17–19 CEST = 11–13 EDT = 10–12 CDT, etc.), with the aim of adding articles to, or improving existing articles in, the wiki, on geographical or geospatial datasets, projects, tools, methodologies and other related questions. All of you who are working…
This is an unconference that will be held Saturday, June 11 – Sunday, June 12 on the Southern Illinois University Edwardsville campus in the Morris University Center. Read full CFP here.
This workshop, sponsored by the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften, Germany, is part of the project “Der digital turn in den Altertumswissenschaften: Wahrnehmung – Dokumentation – Reflexion“ (Dr Stelios Chronopoulos, PD Dr Felix K Maier, Dr Anna Novokhatko). Digital tools and technologies have led to significant changes in Classics during the past 10 to 15 years….
You can assist existing research projects with tasks that need human intelligence, such as the accurate location of artefact findspots or photographed scenes, the identification of subject matter in historic archives, the masking of photos meant for 3D modelling, or the transcription of letters and catalogues. Other tasks might require on-location contributions by members of…
Registration for the Open Access Symposium 2016, held in Denton in May 19-20, closes on Saturday. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers from around the world. Do also consider attending the Library Publishing Forum 2016, an international event held this year in Denton just before the OA Symposium. Registration for that event is separate. Note there’s also an…
This workshop, which will take place on May 12 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Rutgers-Camden, will cover the fundamentals of UX, why it matters, and ways to convince others in your organization to invest in this process. We’ll detail a typical UX journey and common methodologies that are useful for museum professionals, from…
With the support of the Getty Foundation and the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) of the University of Maryland, College Park, present Art History in Digital Dimensions, a three-day symposium in Washington, D.C. and College Park. The symposium aims…
The Digital Curation Unit-IMIS, Athena Research Centre (DCU) is organizing this summer school on the Digital curation of archaeological knowledge in collaboration with the Faculty of Information (iSchool), University of Toronto and the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business. The school will be held in Athens, Greece, 12 to 17 June 2016. Read full…
“Classical Philology goes digital” will take place at the University of Potsdam, February 16-17, 2017. Digital technologies continue to change our daily lives, including the way scholars work. As a result, the Classics are currently also subject to constant change. Having established itself as an important field in the scientific landscape, Digital Humanities (DH) research provides a number of new possibilities to scholars…