The DRHA (Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts) conference is
held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The
conference this year aims to promote discussion around dynamic networks
of knowledge and practice, new digital communities of knowledge and
practice, engaging users and digitisation of cultural heritage. [read more...]

Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project [read more...]

Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project

This major new project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and located in the Department of History at the University of Essex, in collaboration the UK Data Archive. In conjunction with key commercial partners, the project will create an enhanced census data collection for Great Britain covering the period 1851 to 1911. [read more...]

On November 18, I gave a presentation at the Supercomputing 2008 conference in Austin, Texas, USA, and announced the winners of the National Endowment for the Humanities/Department of Energy Humanities High Performance Computing program. [read more...]

The reproduction of the European cultural heritage into digital resources is on its way. Among the various activities undertaken in this field, online catalogues of manuscrips have become an important research tool: Manuscripta Medievalia, for example, is a well established central catalogue in Germany. [read more...]

I am proposing to turn off all online resources for the digital arts and humanities. Really? Really! Well, almost. [read more...]

CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008 will be held at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008. The conference theme is “New Directions in Text Analysis.” There will also be a pre-conference seminar on “Digitizing Early Material Culture”

Invited speakers on “New Directions in Text Analysis” are [read more...]

An outstanding leader in History and e-History, and an energetic, innovative leader in e-Humanities, interested in building research and teaching synergies across the University. [read more...]

Applications are invited for the above 80% FTE post, attached to the Oxford Roman Economy Project, a research project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, to start on 1 October 2008, for two years. The postholder will provide administrative and research assistance to the Professor of the Archaeology of the Roman Empire and the Camden Professor of Ancient History. [read more...]

Course dates: 15 - 17 July 2009
Course fee: £140
Course tutor: Dr Mark Merry (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR) [read more...]

Course dates: 1) 4 - 7 November 2008, 2) 31 March - 3 April 2009
Course fee: £160
Course tutor: Dr Mark Merry (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR) [read more...]

Course dates: 1) 4 - 7 November 2008, 2) 31 March - 3 April 2009
Course fee: £160
Course tutor: Dr Mark Merry (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR) [read more...]

Amongst its many other roles, the internet has become an immense repository of useful information for historians. Library catalogues, bibliographies, articles, monographs and even primary sources are available to anyone who can find and use them. This course provides an intensive one-day introduction for beginners to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. [read more...]

Amongst its many other roles, the internet has become an immense repository of useful information for historians. Library catalogues, bibliographies, articles, monographs and even primary sources are available to anyone who can find and use them. This course provides an intensive one-day introduction for beginners to use of the internet as a tool for serious historical research. [read more...]

Hello!

I'm an artist working with digital media, specifically 3D CG software. I'm currently working on a project that uses online questionnaires to generate data that feeds into a 3D scene. At the most essential level, it's a live 3D graph. [read more...]

New York University's Archives and Public History Program (History Department) is now considering applications for a one-year grant-funded Digital Curriculum Specialist. The Program seeks a scholar experienced with the technical and intellectual issues in digital humanities to help the Program incorporate digital technologies throughout its curriculum and internship programs. [read more...]

Im Hessischen Staatsarchiv Marburg sind zum nächstmöglichen Zeitpunkt für 27 Monate eineinhalb Stellen – alternativ: drei Teilzeitstellen – für

Wissenschaftliche Angestellte (m/w; BAT IIa)

in dem DFG Projekt "Online-Edition des Stiftsarchivs der Reichsabtei Fulda" zu besetzen. [read more...]

* When: Saturday 21st June 2008, 11am - 5pm
* Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
* Map: http://tinyurl.com/58br3u
* Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation/Workshop [read more...]

From the NEH: "The NEH's Office of Digital Humanities (ODH) recently launched a Humanities High Performance Computing (HHPC) initiative. As part of this initiative we're offering several grant programs and other opportunities to provide time on the U.S. Department of Energy's high performance computers, as well as grant money and training. [read more...]

# When: Saturday 24th May 2008
# Where: Trampoline Systems, 8-15 Dereham Place, London, EC2A 3HJ
# Wiki: http://okfn.org/wiki/OpenVisualisation/Workshop [read more...]

"Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" will be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis

University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008

"Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity" will feature guest speakers: [read more...]

The Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) in the Center for the Study of the American South seeks a Coordinator of Oral History Digital Initiatives to oversee the SOHP's participation in a three-year, cross-university collaboration focused on "the long civil rights movement," stretching back to the 1940s and continuing with the extension of struggles for social justice into new arenas after the 196 [read more...]

The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. [read more...]

A new Intute Limelight feature for Egyptology resources is now available. [read more...]

A very interesting blog post by Tom Scheinfeldt about how late 19th and early 20th century scholarship was dominated not by big ideas, but by methodological refinement and disciplinary consolidation. [read more...]

Damian Murphy has been a lecturer at the University of York since 2000. His interests are in Music Technology and Sound Design, focusing in particular on physical modelling, acoustics and recording studio techniques. [read more...]

The Center for History and New Media at George Mason University will undertake a major two-year study of the potential of text-mining tools for historical (and by extension, humanities) scholarship. Read more about this exciting project on Dan Cohen's blog. [read more...]

Join the American Association for History and Computing for an online exploration of the ways that technology is pushing the boundaries of the Web and the ways history is being presented. [read more...]

This conference will be the first major European conference concerned with the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in historical research. It follows on from a previous Historical GIS conference held at the Newberry Library, Chicago in 2004. [read more...]

JISC Collections, in partnership with DataSalon Ltd, have launched The JISC Academic Database Assessment Tool (ADAT), a free online database comparison tool, which aims to help libraries make informed decisions about future subscriptions to online resources. [read more...]

HUMBUL, now know as INTUTE, published a guide to 'Internet Resources for History' in 2006. Obviously, this document is no longer fully up to date, but it still contains many useful links and can serve as a good introduction to important resources, especially as it is free:

http://www.intute.ac.uk/supportdocs/history.pdf

A one-day training course in using the internet for historical research

Course fee: £50
Course tutor: Dr Simon Trafford (IHR) [read more...]

A three-day training course developing more advanced and specialised skills in databases for historians

Course fee: £130
Course tutor: Dr Mark Merry (Centre for Metropolitan History, IHR) [read more...]

Paul Rayson, the developer of Wmatrix, and I are currently discussing corpus linguistics, text mining tools, their application in the field of history and tools development - you are invited to have a look at the discussion or join us in the new Wmatrix user group forum:

http://www.arts-humanities.net/wmatrix/forum/interview_paul_...

Director - Digital Humanities Observatory [read more...]

Director - Digital Humanities Observatory [read more...]

Abstract: "After noting the confusion among scholars of the past century regarding the term 'periodical' and then offering some parameters for defining the term, this paper will point up the importance of the periodical to modern scholars who would attempt to write a history of the age's culture. [read more...]

Abstract: "In this talk I shall briefly survey our evidence for the contents and use of libraries in the Latin West from 800 to 1500, and then discuss various projects for making medieval manuscripts available online: including the Codices Electinici of Cologne and St Gall, the British Library Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts (with which I have been involved) and the Digital Scriptoriu [read more...]

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Virtual Restoration and Manuscript Archaeology: A case study' given by Meg Twycross, University of Lancaster, UK, at the Methods Network expert seminar on history and archaeology: Virtual History and Archaeology (University of Sheffield, 19-21 Apr 2006).

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Using Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) in Historical Research: Some methodological issues from the experience of the ‘Health of the Cecils’ Project' given by Caroline Bowden, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, at the Methods Network expert seminar on history and archaeology: [read more...]

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Finding Needles in Haystacks: Data-mining in distributed historical data-sets' given by Mark Greengrass and Fabio Ciravegna, University of Sheffield, UK, at the Methods Network expert seminar on history and archaeology: Virtual History and Archaeology (University of Sheffield, [read more...]

This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Using GIS to Study Long-Term Population Change' given by Ian Gregory, Queens University Belfast, at the Methods Network expert seminar on history and archaeology: Virtual History and Archaeology (University of Sheffield, 19-21 Apr 2006).

This paper, by John Bonnett, presents two opportunities for humanities and social science scholars to exploit High Performance Computing (HPC). Although from a Canadian perspective, this paper provides valuable insights for UK humanities scholars seeking to exploit recent advances in computer technology. [read more...]

In any scenario devoted to the future of history and computing, it is important to refer first to the content and analytical methods historians are likely to employ. In the scenario presented here, this paper will offer three propositions. [read more...]

Digital Classicist/Institute of Classical Studies Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007

Stuart Dunn (King's College London) [read more...]

Saturday, 17th November 2007
The National Archives, Kew, London

"We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable." Prof. Peter Cochrane, formerly of BT Labs

"much pleasure would be lost on the unthinking machine" Ione Dobson, creator of the last 'hand made' concordance. [read more...]

Two weeks ago I was in Glasgow, discussing Text Mining for Historians. The workshop started with a couple of presentations that gave a more general introduction into the field, describing specific projects, tools or concepts such as corpus linguistics. [read more...]

Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2007 - Melissa Terras (University College London) [read more...]

Electronic corpora of ancient languages offer important information about the culture and history of ancient civilizations, but at the same time they constitute a valuable source of linguistic information. The scholarly community is increasingly aware of the importance of computer-aided analysis of these corpora, and of the rewards it can bring. [read more...]

I am currently in Edinburgh at the Methods Network workshop Space/Time: Methods in geospatial computing for mapping the past. We already had a lively discussion during the theme lecture
http://www.arts-humanities.net/event/105 [read more...]