News, Reports

Report: New Output

An updated the sample output from Collatex shows output from user-specified witnesses in the form of (1) an alignment table based on user-specified order, (2) an extracted text of a base text (taking the first specified witness is the base text), (3) generating an apparatus.

Funding & Opportunities, News

Funding Opportunity: ALLC call for workshop and project support 2012

ALLC call for workshop and project support 2012 | Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC).

In accordance with the general description of ALLC calls for workshop and project support we hereby call for support for workshops and projects in 2012. The deadline for this call is January 31, 2012. Notifications will go out by February 28, 2012.

News, Resources

Resource: QueryPic

QueryPic builds a simple visualisation of your search query in the Trove newspaper database. A list of search results is difficult to interpret and offers little context. QueryPic shows you the number of articles matching your query over time, enabling you reframe your questions, pursue hunches, or simply play around.

 

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFParticipation: White House Extends Deadline for Public Access and Digital Data RFIs to 1/12/12

The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act of 2010, signed by President Obama earlier this year, calls upon OSTP to coordinate with agencies to develop policies that assure widespread public access to and long-term stewardship of the results of federally funded unclassified research. Towards that goal, OSTP issued the two RFIs soliciting public input on long-term preservation of and public access to the results of federally funded research, including digital data and peer-reviewed scholarly publications.

We encourage stakeholders to carefully consider the questions in the RFIs and provide comments to the addresses specified. Soon after the conclusion of the comment periods, OSTP will make all comments available on its website (including the names of the authors and their institutional affiliations, so please do not include any proprietary or confidential information when