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Job: DPLA Project Manager via ACLS Fellows Program (Boston)

The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA), currently based at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University but moving to a permanent location by spring 2013, is an ambitious project to make the cultural and scientific heritage of humanity available, free of charge, to all. By adhering to the fundamental principle of free and universal […]

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Resource: Digital Thoreau and Parallel Segmentation

Digital Thoreau and Parallel Segmentation What really caught my attention, however, is that they freely offer a toolkit of materials from their project, including XML documents marked up in TEI Parallel Segmentation. This allowed me to take a closer look at how they encoded the text featured in the demo, and try visualizing it, myself.

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: NITLE Women’s Studies and DH Resources

NITLE Women’s Studies and DH Resources – Google Drive. if you have resources to share for #DH #feminisms #NITLE, please share them here. As of 2/26 this is a public document and additions are welcome. Please keep additions within the appropriate categories (or add new ones) and keep the bibliography alphabetical.

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Resource: Free Your Metadata

Free Your Metadata. Clean up your metadata and discover how to handle those embarrassing errors. Free Your Metadata is a scientific collaboration between Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University / iMinds) and MasTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Google.

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Resource: English Broadside Ballad Archive

English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA at UCSB) | Early Modern Online Bibliography. The University of California at Santa Barbara has created a free digital ballad collection called The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), which provides access to more than 8,000 seventeenth-century ballads.  The collection includes ballads from the Pepys Collection, the Roxburgh Collection, the Euing Collection, and the Huntington Library.  […]

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Announcement: Launch of AMODERN

Post Position » Amodern, a New Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journal. Announcing the launch of AMODERN: A new peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, culture, and poetics. http://amodern.net

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CFP: ACL 2013 workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities

ACL 2013 workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. The LaTeCH workshop series is a forum for researchers who develop technology for improved information access to data from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage. Applications in these domains are rapidly emerging, while they typically entail new challenges with respect to […]

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Resource: Designing databases for historical research (free course)

Designing databases for historical research (free course) | Institute of Historical Research. This free module provides an overview of important concepts both in terms of the historical data that might be used in databases and in terms of the design process. The module takes the form of a handbook, broken down into chapter headings and […]

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Conference: Women’s History in the Digital World

Women’s History in the Digital World | Conferences | Bryn Mawr College. The Women’s History in the Digital World conference brings together scholars working on women’s history projects with a digital component, exploring the complexities of creating, managing, researching and teaching with digital resources. This is the first conference of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center […]