This summer, the Rare Book School in Charlottesville, Virginia are excited to offer a practical course on the creation, preservation, and use of electronic texts and their associated images in the humanities, with an in-depth focus on Special Collections materials. Taught by David Seaman, Associate Librarian for Information Management at Dartmouth College Library, “XML in Action: Creating Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Texts” will be aimed primarily (although not exclusively) at librarians, publishers, and scholars keen to develop, use, publish, and control electronic texts for library, research, scholarly communication, or teaching purposes.
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PKP 2015 – Call for Participation (11-14 August 2015, Vancouver)
PKP 2015
11-14 August 2015, Vancouver
The deadline for submissions: May 1, 2015
Call for Participation
The conference will address a wide range of issues such as open access
publishing, global knowledge creation and sharing, open educational
resources, the digital humanities, current and future scholars as
publishers, and open source technologies. It will provide opportunities to
explore a new array of connections among scholarship, technology, and
community, all focused around the broad theme of openness.
The program will consist of a mixture of invited plenary presentations, a
“next generation scholars” panel discussion, brief “lightning talks,” a
2-day development sprint, and workshops. A preliminary schedule, including
the updated registration fees, can be found on the conference website:
http://pkp.sfu.ca/pkp2015/pages/view/program
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DH@Guelph Summer Workshops
The inaugural offering of DH@Guelph Summer Workshops, which aims to become a regular event on the University of Guelph campus, expands opportunities for digital humanities training in southwest Ontario.
The courses will be offered over 4 days, May 19-22.
The first offering is for three courses:
– Developing a Digital Exhibit in Omeka
– Topic Modeling for Humanities Research
– Online Collaborative Scholarship: Principles and Practices (A CWRCshop)
DiRT becomes centerNet initiative
The DiRT (Digital Research Tools) directory (http://dirtdirectory.org) and centerNet (http://dhcenternet.org) are pleased to announce that the DiRT directory has been adopted as the newest centerNet initiative. As a directory of tools for digital research, maintained by an international community of volunteers, DiRT will benefit from closer ties to centerNet’s member centers around the world, as well as to centerNet’s DHCommons project directory (http://dhcomons.org).
CFP: Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze
Call for Proposals: Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze
November 12-13, 2015 at the University of Michigan
Proposal deadline: May 15, 2015
The University of Michigan Library and Bentley Historical Library are proud to announce Web Archives 2015: Capture, Curate, Analyze, a two day symposium to be held on November 12-13, 2015 at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor). For more information on this event, please see http://www.lib.umich.edu/webarchivesconference
Proposals may be submitted via email to webarc2015@umich.edu
Overview:
Research in almost all disciplines increasingly relies on evidence gleaned from websites, social media platforms, and other online resources. As scholars and instructors embrace these primary sources and discover new and innovative ways to interact with the data, their efforts are aligned–knowingly or not–with those of developers and archivists.
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Reminder: Symposium on Cultural Heritage Markup CFP
Cultural Heritage Markup:
Using Markup to preserve, understand, and disseminate cultural heritage materials: a Balisage pre-conference symposium
Monday August 10, 2015
Bethesda North Marriott Hotel & Conference Center, Bethesda, MD, USA
Markup and markup technologies are used in a wide variety of cultural heritage projects by linguists, students of literature, librarians, historians, curators, and others. Markup is used behind the scenes in archives, libraries, and museums to create and store metadata and the textual content of a wide variety of materials both textual and artefactual. We want to know how you or your project are using markup to preserve, analyse, disseminate, or curate materials of long-term value to society.
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Registration open: “Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities” @ DHSI 2015 (June 7)
“Social Knowledge Creation in the Humanities,” our INKE- and Iter-hosted event aligned with DHSI, will take place from 1pm-4pm on Sunday June 7th 2015 in Hickman 105 on the UVic campus. This event will provoke conversation and stimulate activity around issues of social knowledge creation. We welcome researchers, students, and practitioners who wish to engage intellectually with this topic, as well as to do some hands-on experimentation with related practices and initiatives.
The program, posted on dhsi.org/events.php, will include an opening talk by Dr. John Maxwell (SFU), as well as lightning paper sessions and workshops. This event is open and free for all DHSI 2015 attendees. If you are interested in joining us, please confirm your participation by May 1st 2015 by registering for the event via https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/social-knowledge-creation-in-the-humanities-tickets-16210267346.
How can we shape the future of scholarly production to address the needs of many? What existing tools and platforms stimulate knowledge creation across communities? In the digital age, what role do scholars play in inspiring, developing, or harnessing social knowledge creation? Join us on June 7th to discuss these questions and more.
Please do not hesitate to direct any inquiries or concerns to me at alyssaarbuckle@gmail.com.
Digital Material conference: registration open
Registration has now opened for Digital Material, a conference that considers the intersections of digital and material cultures in the Humanities. The conference will be held at the National University of Ireland, Galway on 21-22 May 2015, and registration is free for all participants: http://digitalmaterial.ie/registration/
The two-day conference features speakers from a range of disciplines (literature, history, archaeology, classics, art history, folklore, music, game studies, education), perspectives from the library and museum sectors, and creative artists. The plenary lectures will be delivered by Jerome McGann (University of Virginia) and Matthew G. Kirschenbaum (University of Maryland). The provisional conference programme is available at: http://digitalmaterial.ie/programme/
Digital Mitford Coding School, May 27 – 31, 2015 at Pitt-Greensburg
THE DIGITAL MITFORD’S CODING SCHOOL:
We call for participants and prospective new editors to join us from Wed. May 27 through Sunday May 31, 2015 for the Third Annual Workshop Series (or Coding School) of the Digital Mitford: the Mary Russell Mitford Archive, at http://mitford.pitt.edu. Please join us if you want to learn text encoding methods in Digital Humanities through hands-on participation in a large-scale digital archive project now well underway. We are happy to teach what we know and are learning, and to orient you to coding with hands-on experience on our active project as part of our end-of-May three-day workshop series. Our workshops are held at the lovely Pitt-Greensburg campus (http://greensburg.pitt.edu) during the last week of May 2015. We expect people to arrive on Wednesday May 27 and depart on Sunday. May 31, with our workshops running during the days from Thursday morning May 28 through Saturday evening May 30.
Application Open: Digital Art History Summer Institute, Visualizing Venice, June 1-12, 2015
Applications are currently open for a ten-day intensive digital art history summer institute, Visualizing Venice, that focuses on the history of the Venice Biennale. Training will introduce participants to current digital humanities theories, methods, and tools. Topics include digital mapping, data visualization, 3D modeling of buildings, and time-based animations on apps and websites. The training program has been organized since 2012 by Wired! in partnership with Venice International University (VIU) and the Architectural University of Venice (IUAV). A Getty Foundation grant supports stipends for participants. More information and applications can be found at http://www.univiu.org/shss/seminars-summer-schools/visualizing-venice-summer-workshop.