Mendeley Ltd., a company based in London, England, e-mailed bloggers and other media about its new in-beta service and desktop client software called Mendeley Research Networks. According to the About Us page, “… Mendeley will make your life easier. It’s a combination of desktop software and social network which helps you manage, share and discover [...]
Leheigh University (Bethlehem, PA, USA) recently launched a historical GIS project called Beyond Steel. Here’s the description from the front page: The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) project is comprised of the early twentieth-century Sanborn fire insurance maps, Sholes’ Directory of the Bethlehems, 1900-1901, 1900-1902 Bethlehem Steel employee lists, a contemporary database of streets, and selected [...]
This looks like a fascinating conference; mapping mythical and imaginary places is a subject that’s always appealed to me: Maps, Myths and Narratives: Cartography of the Far North 23rd International Conference on the History of Cartography, July 12-17, 2009. Location: The Black Diamond, Royal Library, Copenhagen, Denmark Call for Papers Date: 2009-07-12 Date Submitted: 2008-07-09 [...]
From the announcement on the DIGLIB mailing list (02008 06 11): DHCS Colloquium, November 1st – 3rd, 2008 Submission Deadline: August 31st, 2008 The goal of the annual Chicago Digital Humanities/Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium is to bring together researchers and scholars in the Humanities and Computer Sciences to examine the current state of Digital Humanities [...]
From the announcement on the Archives & Archivists mailing list (02008 06 09): The Virginia Foundation for the Humanities announces a new service provider founded to help documentary editors plan and develop electronic documentary editions. Rob Vaughan, President of the Virginia Foundation, is enthusiastic about the project’s potential to transform and streamline digital editing. “We [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 04 20): The DOCAM (Documentation and Conservation of the Media Arts Heritage) Research Alliance and Media@McGill invite submissions of abstracts for the presentation of papers at the inaugural Media in Motion Symposium. The interdisciplinary event aims to bring together graduate students across the sciences, humanities, and social sciences in [...]
From a media release I received from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Tuesday afternoon [March 25, 02008], the National Endowment for the Humanities’ (NEH) newly created Office of Digital Humanities announced the first JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant award recipients on behalf of the NEH and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC). The announcement [...]
From the announcement on DIGITAL-PRESERVATION@JISCMAIL.AC.UK (02008 02 130: Digitizing Early Material Culture: from Antiquity to Modernity A Seminar to be held in conjunction with CaSTA (the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis) 2008: New Directions in Text Analysis A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Seminar and Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, 16-18 October 2008 “Digitizing [...]
The University of Victoria in BC, Canada, plays host again to the international Digital Humanities Summer Institute from May 26 to 30, 02008. According to the announcement submitted to various mailing lists (02008 02 13), The Digital Humanities Summer Institute provides an environment ideal to discuss, to learn about, and to advance skills in new [...]
Here’s a description from the front page of American Social History Online, which is pretty darned impressive: Aquifer American Social History Online – Find and use 19th and 20th century primary resources from unique historical digital collections. search diverse digital content from 40 American Social History research collections find more than 230,000 digitized objects in [...]
Another little gem of a site from the Washington State Historical Society is its Washington History Online that’s designed for students. Among the interesting sub-sites that have repurposed some of their digitized content are The Treaty Trail: U.S.—Indian Treaty Councils in the Northwest and Leschi: Justice in Our Time.
Edited by David L. Green and dedicated to the memory of the remarkable digital and radical historian Roy Rosenzweig (1950-2007), the December 02007 issue of Academic Commons brings together a series of papers on Cyberinfrastructure and the Liberal Arts. Source: DIGLIB mailing list, 02007 12 17
Quoting the front page of this new and wonderful digital collection from Rice University, Houston, Texas: The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is a digital archive that focuses on Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travels to Egypt during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. TIMEA offers electronic texts such as travel [...]
Here’s a pretty nifty digitization project of four historic clothing collections called Digital Dress. It’s hosted by Wayne State University Libraries. The clothing and accessories range in time from at least the 18th century to the 1980s. Digital Dress was a two-year (2003-2005) collaboration between some museums and the Wayne State University Libraries. Although it’s [...]
Thanks to the latest issue of H.M. Glaney’s Digital Document Quarterly, I learned that the Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein Archives “presents digital copies of the entire collections of Robert A. and Virginia Heinlein in downloadable form for research and academic purposes. Heinlein’s OPUS manuscripts is the first complete collection presented. These manuscript files include [...]
An International Cultural Heritage Informatics Meeting on digital culture and heritage is being held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada from October 24 to 26, 02007. According to various mailing list announcements the conference is “produced by Archives & Museum Informatics in association with the Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, and in conjunction with the [...]
In an extraordinary achievement and a digital gift to humanity, “all medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands are available on the website Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (MMDC). The website provides a portal to a database with short, uniform descriptions and photographs of all medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands, about 6000 items in all. … MMDC [...]
According to a media release dated 02007 08 13 on various mailing lists and elsewhere on the Internet, “Fedora Commons today announced the award of a four year, $4.9M grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to develop the organizational and technical frameworks necessary to effect revolutionary change in how scientists, scholars, museums, libraries, [...]
From the front page: “The second Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science will be held on October 21-22, 2007 at Northwestern University. The event is jointly sponsored by the Illinois Institute of Technology, Northwestern University, and the University of Chicago. The theme for this colloquium will be “Exploring the scholarly query potential of [...]
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