Welcome to the Open Library of Humanities (OLH). This site aims to give the background to, and rationale for, our vision of building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities. Please feel free to look around the site and get in touch if you’d like to be involved. Open Library of Humanities.
Saturday 23rd February is Open Data Day 2013! Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world’s local, regional and national governments. Open Data Day 2013 | Open Knowledge Foundation […]
National Day of Civic Hacking is a national event that will take place June 1-2, 2013, in cities across the nation. The event will bring together citizens, software developers, and entrepreneurs from all over the nation to collaboratively create, build, and invent new solutions using publicly-released data, code and technology to solve challenges relevant to […]
Social Transformations and the Digital Age | World Social Science Forum 2013. The role of digital technologies in nearly all aspects of life – most notably in the form of “social media” –has been a constant news focus in recent years, and it has also become a major focus of social research. As far as […]
This inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary project aims to explore what it is to be human and the nature of human community in cyberculture, cyberspace and science fiction. In particular, the project will explore the possibilities offered by these contexts for creative thinking about persons and the challenges posed to the nature and future of national, international, […]
The conference title is “Chercher le Texte: Locating the Text in Electronic Literature.” Electronic literature is explicitly defined as literature. Yet there is great confusion about the concept of text at work in it. What defines the textuality of games, visual works, and works without any evident language? The ELO 2013 conference in Paris will […]
Since 2000, the WebWise conference has brought together representatives of museums, libraries, archives, systems science, education, and other fields interested in the future of high-quality online content for inquiry and learning. This annual conference highlights recent research and innovations in digital technology, explores their potential impacts on library and museum services, and promotes effective museum […]
Participation in GO::DH is open to all who share its aims. If you are interested in participating in this initiative, you can visit the GO::DH website http://www.globaloutlookdh.org/ , join the GO::DH mailing list (http://listserv.uleth.ca/mailman/listinfo/globaloutlookdh-l), or follow it on Facebook or Twitter (@globaloutlookdh). Announcement: Special Interest Group: Global Outlook::Digital Humanities (GO::DH).
The conference aims to bring together scholars involved in the creation of oral sources, for both individual research and archival purposes, with the intent to discuss the potential use and impact of digitized collections of narratives related to war and trauma, across disciplinary and national boundaries. Because of the specific context in which the CroMe […]
The Call for Papers is open from now until midnight on 2 April, 2013. Contributions are invited for papers on all aspects of digital heritage, with a focus on interfaces with the past: audio, visual, spatial, or textual. We welcome proposals for 15-minute presentations, posters, and practical demonstrations. Speakers should email a 200-word abstract to cdh-2013@york.ac.uk with an indication of their preferred format. CDH […]
