Deutsches Textarchiv: Workshop on historicol corpora, Berlin, July 7th 2014

Dear TEI members,

we would like to invite you to the fourth DTA-Workshop, to be held on July 7th 2014, at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jägerstr. 22/23, Berlin (Germany).
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Webinar: Discover what is new in oXygen XML editor 16

Hi all,

I would like to invite you to discover the new oXygen XML Editor version 16 additions in two webinars that we scheduled during the following weeks, one focusing on XML development and the other on XML authoring:

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TEI Paid Assistance

Hello everyone,

I am working on a project that uses TEI to organize some authority data related to a large collection of documents. I need an experienced user of TEI to consult on the project and help troubleshoot some of the issues I’m having. I don’t feel that I am experienced enough to do this alone. I have funding that I can use to pay this person for their time. Below is a description of the tasks I need assistance with. Please let me know if you are interested in this opportunity by emailing jacobhill.mail@gmail.com.

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Cultural Literacy in Europe – Call for papers OPEN!

Dear all,

Below is the call for papers for the first conference of Cultural Literacy in Europe (http://cleurope.eu) – see strand on digital textuality with Digital Humanities related topics.
Please consider submitting a proposal for paper or project presentations and disseminate the announcement.
Best,
Arianna

TEI Critical Edition Toolbox

Dear Colleagues,

It is my pleasure to invite you to test a new tool I am developping, called the TEI Critical Edition Toolbox.

The current version of this online application can be found at the address below, but at this “beta testing” stage its access is password-protected:
http://ciham-digital.huma-num.fr/teitoolbox/
If you wish to test the Toolbox, please send me a private message and I will send you the login and password.

You will find below a more detailed description of the purpose and features of the TEI Critical Edition Toolbox.

Best regards,
Marjorie

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The European Association for Digital Humanities (EADH) Elections

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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Position Announcement: CLARIN Executive Director

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

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

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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