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Digital Humanities Observatory - Dublin, June 2010
Friday, February 19th, 2010 | Resources, Workshops | No Comments
If you happen to be in Europe this Summer you may consider attending the Digital Humanities Observatory Summer School in Dublin.
This year, like last year, the Summer School happens in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative… And this year a novelty are mid-week, and one-day workshops.
A number of subsidised places are available for attendees at HSIS institutions. For more information about these places, please contact the DHO Consultative Committee representative at your institution. Names of representatives can be found at: http://dho.ie/committee
Full details of the workshop strands, lectures and guest speakers can be found on the Summer School website at: www.dho.ie/ss2010
One word on the EpiDoc collaborative on the next post!
Posted by: Ana Boa-Ventura
Visualizing the genesis of a medieval text, layer by layer
Monday, August 24th, 2009 | Resources | No Comments
 LLC 24 (3) cover |
In the study of urban life during the Middle Ages in Europe, municipal statutes can provide great insight. The latest issue of the Literary and Linguistic Computing Journal includes an article by Malte Rehbein (National University of Ireland) entitled “Reconstructing the textual evolution of a medieval manuscript”. The article shows how a multi-layered text can be used to organically show how a text evolved: in this case, the text is Göttingen’s ‘kundige bok’. Full reference: Rehbein, M. (2009). Reconstructing the textual evolution of a medieval manuscript. Literary and Linguistic Computing 2009 24(3):319-327 Posted by: Ana Boa-Ventura |
Visiting SDSC!
Friday, May 22nd, 2009 | Resources, Workshops | No Comments
…baby and teddy bear included!:)
Left to right: Astrid Ogilvie (U of Colorado), GH, Stephennie Mulder with baby Daniela (U of Texas), William Phillips (U of Minnesota), Benjamin Liu (U of California, Riverside), and Roger Hart (U of Texas).
Photos by Alan Craig
Best practices - scholarly use of historical digital images
Sunday, March 1st, 2009 | News, Resources | No Comments
At this time, I would like to call your attention to a recently Call for Open Access to Digital Images issued by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG).
The set of recommendations are aimed namely at the publication of historical digital images, which are core to the GMA project - hence, this post…
The MPIWG, which co-initiated the OpenAccess movement, just launched on its website a set of recommendations on the scholarly use of visual media. The material is the result of careful consultations the Institute conducted with scholars and representatives of leading museums, libraries, image archives and publishers.
More than best practices, the documents now published aims at creating “a network of mutual trust and cooperation between scholars and curators of cultural heritage collections with a view to facilitating access to and the scholarly use of visual media”.
This set of best practices are downloadable from the Institute’s website.
The document is addressed at curators - for example it exhorts them to accommodate scholars’ needs by porving access to hig-resolution images for a low cost (or no cost). It also addresses scholars exhorting them to recognise museums and libraries as the custodians of physical objects of cultural heritage. Furthermore, the document stresses the importance of the role of all stakeholders int he process as “guarantors of authenticity”.
Posted by Ana Boa-Ventura
Conference News
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008 | Conferences, News, Resources | No Comments
SCGMA will run 3 panels, including a roundtable forum, at the Medieval Institute’s 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies in May 2009.
SCGMA will also have a panel at the annual conference of the American Historical Association in 2010.