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CFP: Special Issue on Irish Studies and Digital Humanities

Upcoming Call for Papers: Special Issue on Irish Studies and Digital Humanities [Deadline: January 15th, 2014] In 2012, Stanley Fish posed the question: does the digital humanities offer new and better ways to realize traditional humanities goals? Or does the digital humanities completely change our understanding of what a humanities goal (and work in the humanities) might […]

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CFP: Toronto 2014 – Digitizing the Medieval Archive

March 27-29, 2014 With keynote speakers: David Greetham (The Graduate Center, CUNY) Stephen G. Nichols (Johns Hopkins University) Caroline Macé (KU Leuven) Consuelo Dutschke (Columbia University Library) Discussion about the digitization of archival fonds and library holdings pertaining to the Middle Ages boasts a wide profusion both in online settings and in real time. As […]

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Resource: The Museum System API

This project is really for technical staff or developers who work with The Museum System (TMS).  The code is a C# .NET WCF service application that allows access to curatorial data using JSON web services.

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Resource: Doing OCR Using Command Line Tools in Linux

In previous posts, we looked at a variety of Linux command line techniques for analyzing text and finding patterns in it, including word frequencies, permuted term indexes, regular expressions, simple search engines and named entity recognition. In this post we focus on a preliminary issue: converting images of texts into text files that we can […]

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Job: Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material Culture, UCL

The successful candidate will be a promising researcher able to carry out teaching and administration in Digital Anthropology and some other area within Material Culture studies which could include consumption, media, museums, art and visual culture, materials or a particular genre of material and visual culture. UCL Search Engine: Lecturer in Digital Anthropology and Material […]