Vanderbilt University invites you to participate in a summer seminar for humanities scholars working with XML documents (such as TEI, EAD, or MODS). The XQuery Summer Institute is designed for scholars with basic experience marking up texts who would like to acquire advanced skills in how to query and computationally analyze XML documents. Find More Information…

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ChronoZoom, an open source project initiated by Microsoft Research and UC Berkeley enables students to explore, create, and tell stories with timelines directly from within a web browser. As the 2013 recipient of the SXSW Interactive Award for Best Educational Resource, ChronoZoom is developing lesson plans to teach historical thinking concepts to middle and high school students….

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The National Endowment for the Humanities is now accepting proposals for the National Digital Newspaper Program.  The National Digital Newspaper Program is a partnership between NEH and the Library of Congress to develop a searchable database of historically significant newspapers published in the United States.  The Library of Congress hosts the site for this project at Chronicling America, a…

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The Digital Cultures Research Centre (DCRC) is the University’s hub for research into creative media applications in real world contexts, producing new knowledge about everyday life in today’s digital media ecology. The post represents an exciting opportunity for a committed and dynamic researcher to play a major role in the continuing development of an internationally recognised research centre. Research Fellow—Digital Cultures…

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Ithaka S+R is launching a new training course starting in January 2014, Sustaining Digital Resources, specifically designed for leaders of digital projects who are developing sustainability plans for the digital resources they have created.   Our focus is not on the technical aspects of preservation, but encourages participants to define the longer-range goals for their projects,…

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Award for Outstanding Work in Digital Archaeology – Deadline Extended to October 1 Digital technologies are driving important changes in archaeology.  Despite the increasing acceptance of digital technology in daily life, however, determining how to assess digital scholarship has proved difficult: many universities remain unsure about how to evaluate digital work along side more traditional…

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