Resource: Einstein Archives
Einstein Archives | Home. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the California Institute of Technology unveiled a new online repository of 2,000 high-resolution scans from their collected manuscripts of Albert Einstein.
Category: News
Resource: GIS Day 2011 Lightning Rounds
Scholars’ Lab. GIS Day 2011 Lightning Rounds On November 16, 2011, the SLab welcomed a diverse group of speakers presenting lightning round talks as part of our GIS Day celebrations. Eighteen of those speakers agreed to have their talks appear on our podcast, which we’re pleased to present.
CFParticipation: Environmental Digital Humanities: An Integrative Collaboratory…that needs your help!
Environmental Digital Humanities: An Integrative Collaboratory…that needs your help! « Fifty-One Volumes. Note: this is a static version of an editable Google Doc that can be accessed here. —- Thanks for checking out this experiment in online collaboration. While brainstorming with colleagues about the initial framework for a grant application integrating Digital and Environmental Humanities, […]
Opportunity: Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School 2012
Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School. The Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School (DHOXSS) 2012 is scheduled for the 2nd – 6th July at the University of Oxford. DHOXSS delegates will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research assistants, and students who are interested in the creation, management, or publication of digital data in the […]
CFP: Call for Papers on Digital Information
Call for Papers on Digital Information | Office of Research Cyberinfrastructure. The International Journal on Digital Libraries seeks high quality research papers that present original theoretical results, algorithms, or approaches, as well as empirical and experimental studies related to the following areas: Digital Library technology Semantic Web and Collective Memories Digital Library practice, Lending Libraries Museums, […]
CFProposals: London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship 2012-13
The London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, held monthly at Senate House, Bloomsbury, focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate […]
Resource: Guidelines for a long-term preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata
Guidelines for a long time preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata Authors: Sofie Laier Henriksen, Wiel Seuskens & Gaby Wijers (NIMk)External reviewer: Robert Gillesse (DEN)These Guidelines for a long-term preservation strategy for digital reproductions and metadata explains how to preserve digital materials such as text, images and video. It gives a theoretical introduction to […]
Job: Data Visualization Coordinator, Brown University Library
In the fall 2012, the Brown University Library will open a state-of-the-art Digital Scholarship Lab, which will feature a high-resolution tiled video display wall, surround sound, and the ability to interact with the wall using peripheral devices. The Digital Scholarship Lab will provide the facilities for scholars across the disciplines to engage with research data […]
Report: Value and Benefits of Text Mining
Our friends at the UK JISC have just issued a very useful new report titled “Value and Benefits of Text Mining” which looks at some of the early applications of text mining, particularly in the context of the scholarly literature, and the technical, economic, and legal barriers to large scale use of text mining technologies. […]
Seminar: NITLE Seminar on Digital Pedagogy
Tuesday, March 27th, at 10 am PDT / 1 pm EDT You can register here. “As new digital methods of critical analysis reshape academic practices in profound ways, scholars have begun to use digital tools and platforms to rethink their assumptions about what can or should happen in the college classroom. From work in the online […]