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The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) Elections

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Dear Colleagues,

Call for nominations to EADH executive committee.

The executive committee of The European Association for Digital
Humanities (EADH) will hold elections for three positions on its
executive committee (see http://eadh.org/about/constitution for
more information) this month and the election committee calls for
nominations.  We note that we are beginning this later than usual and
later than we wished because of a large influx of new members, who
whose voting rights we wished to ensure.

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TEI Conference Update

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Dear Colleagues,

Here is an update on the planning for the 2014 TEI Conference, hosted by
Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, October 22-24,2014

The Program Committee has now completed its review of submissions. People
have been notified of the results of the review, and we expect to publish
a conference schedule within the next ten days. There are likely to be a
few changes at the margins, but what you will see on or about “Bloomsday”
(June 16) will be what you get.

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Position Announcement: CLARIN Executive Director

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Applications are invited for the post of Executive Director of the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium.

CLARIN is a pan-European research infrastructure for promoting and supporting the use of language resources and tools in the humanities and social sciences. CLARIN currently has about 25 centres in 10 countries, and has global ambitions and is expected to expand rapidly in the near future. More at http://www.clarin.eu/.

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Career Opportunity

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Research Associate – Linked Data
University of Oxford – Oxford e-Research Centre

Closes: 23rd June 2014

We are seeking a Research Associate which is a technical role working on Semantic Web and Linked Data technologies that support research in Digital Humanities, specifically for the ElEPHaT and Transforming Musicology projects. These projects share a need for identifying and semantically linking diverse digital resources (images of books, OCRed text, digital audio, symbolic music representations etc.) and the digital methods and analysis performed over these resources by humanities researchers.

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HTML5 and XML: Mending Fences

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A Balisage pre-conference symposium (Monday August 4, 2014)

HTML5 is taking over the Web. XML and XML-based toolsets are used to create, manage, interchange, and manipulate much of the content that is published as HTML5. XMLers and HTML5ers may each find the other more than a little peculiar; but it is time to get past our differences and discuss how our differing strengths can be combined to benefit each other, our users, and the information eco-system as a whole.

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Digital Humanities at Oxford (DHOxSS): TEI Workshop

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A reminder that registration for the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) will be closing in less than a month. DHOxSS is an annual event for anyone interested in Digital Humanities. There is still some space on the TEI workshop!

This year’s DHOxSS will be held on 14–18 July 2014.

Register now at: http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2014/
Promotional video at: http://youtu.be/lBO7kT3D94A

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Balisage: The Markup Conference 2014 (August 5-8, Washington, DC, USA)

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Balisage is an annual conference devoted to the theory and practice of descriptive markup and related technologies for structuring and managing information.

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Upcoming Event: TEI Hackathon DH2014 Worshop

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We are inviting applications to participate in the TEI Hackathon full day workshop that will be held on July 7, 2014, as a pre-conference session at DH2014.
The goal of the hackathon is to make significant progress on a few projects during one day of work (from 9am to roughly 5.30pm).

For more information on the possible projects, the programme committee, and the application process, please follow this link.