Category: humanities computing
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Keynote speakers announced: Digital Humanities 2009
The speakers for Digital Humanities 2009 have been announced. And what a refreshing change to the Digital Humanities agenda. The first is Lev Manovich, Professor of New Media at UCSD, who wrote the brilliant ‘Language of New Media’ back in 2001. And the second is Chrsitine Borgman, Professor of Information Studies at UCLA who wrote…
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News from the Office of the Digital Humanities (US)
1) Guidelines for Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Would your institution like to host a summer training institute or seminar on a topic in the digital humanities? If you have some local expertise, why not share with your colleagues from around the country? Deadline for this program is February 18th and the…
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What is Aus-e-lit?
(Thanks to the Arts and Humanities eScience support centre at King’s for the link) The Aus-e-Lit project aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture. AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between the National Library of Australia and twelve Universities. It provides an important resource…
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
Thursday 6 November, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Room 274/5 (Stewart House), 17:30 – 19:30 Speaker: Martin Mueller (Northwestern) on “The Importance of Not-Reading?†A century ago the German nonsense poet Christian Morgenstern wrote a poem about text-condensing spectacles. Referring to itself as an example of the power of those spectacles, the poem…
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Virtual Research Environments: VRE Programme Phases 2 & 3
A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) enables a group of researchers, often across several institutions, to work collaboratively by forming a social structure and sharing resources over the internet. According to Michael Fraser, University of Oxford, ‘a VRE comprises a set of online tools and other network resources and technologies interoperating with each other to facilitate…
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XMod: A TEI based publication application (from CCH)
xMod is a desktop application which can transform a repository of XML into a completely finished website. The entire process can be setup and run to produce a basic website very quickly assuming some prerequisites: A set of valid XML files. These would normally comply with a TEI DTD. Some basic configuration. xMod needs to…