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CFParticipation: Seeking Comments on NDSA Levels of Digital Preservation: Release Candidate One

The goal of this document is to provide a basic tool for helping organizations manage and mitigate digital preservation risks. This document does not deal with broader issues related to collection development practices, critical policy framework decisions, general issues involving staffing or particular workflows or life cycle issues. Those are all critical, and in many […]

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CFP: Public History in the Digital Age

The Society for History in the Federal Government and Oral History in the Mid-Atlantic Region announce a joint conference.The program committee invites participants to broadly interpret the conference theme, “Public History in the Digital Age.” Topics might include the historiography of oral history practice and theory; the impact of technology on the practice and sharing […]

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CFParticipation: DPLA Audience & Participation Workshop and Hackfest at the Center for History and New Media

On December 6, 2012, the Digital Public Library of America will have two concurrent and interwoven events at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University in Fairfax, VA. The Audience and Participation workstream will be holding a meeting that will be livestreamed, and next door those interested in fleshing out what might be done with the DPLA […]

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CFParticipation: NEH Calls for Comments on Digital Projects for the Public Grant Program Guidelines

NEH Calls for Comments on Digital Projects for the Public Grant Program Guidelines | National Endowment for the Humanities. NEH seeks comments to help the agency assess how well these guidelines for a new funding opportunity accomplish the following goals: encourage the integration of new digital technologies in traditional humanities spaces; foster the development of […]

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CFParticipation: Novice digital humanists…

I recently began a Masters in Digital Arts and Humanities at UCC in Cork, Ireland. I thought it might be a useful exercise to hold a series of Skype or Google+ Hangouts chats with other novice digital humanists, along the lines of Jack Dougherty’s post. This first informal chat would more than likely be on […]

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CFP: SHARP 2013 – Geographies of the Book

SHARP 2013 – Call for Papers We invite submissions for the 21st annual conference of the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (SHARP), to be held in Philadelphia from July 18-21, 2013. The program will take place primarily on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. Sponsors include the University of Pennsylvania […]

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CFParticipation: Games on Games project

Games on Games project « G|A|M|E. The Games on Games project originates from the hypothesis that it is possible and fruitful to critique videogames and their related themes by adopting their own forms, mechanics and languages. The meta-referential intention to transpose scientific research from written word to the playing field opens up a range of different challenges, such as: Is […]