Category Archives: Digital Humanities

Text Analysis programs that can do word frequency, KWIC, concordancing, etc. are fairly well-established (cf: Harald Klein’s text analysis informational pages or U of Alberta’s TaPOR site). WMatrix is a web-based tool that does the standard analysis but, like more … Continue reading →

In January 2006 O’Reilly debuted their “Rough Cuts” program. Here’s how they describe it: “When you buy a book on the Rough Cuts service, you get access to an evolving manuscript. You can read it online, download as a PDF, … Continue reading →

U Wisconsin Expands Content Management to 7 Campuses …The University of Wisconsin recently expanded its licensing agreement with Xythos, developer of content management software, to include seven campuses… …According to Xythos, the content management technology was used to create My … Continue reading →

Report Profiles IT Training at U.S. Universities “Dublin, Ireland-based research firm Research and Markets has released a new report that tracks how various institutions of higher learning in the United States are trying to improve the computer literacy of their … Continue reading →

Workshop on Research and Training Perspectives on the Canadian Digital Information Strategy http://www.gin-ebsi.umontreal.ca/stra_num/index1.htm The blog for discussion and postings on these topics is at: http://blogues.ebsi.umontreal.ca/stra_num/ “The aim of this meeting is to discuss and integrate the academic perspective on digital … Continue reading →

Fully Online Book: Computing in Humanities Education: A European Perspective http://helmer.hit.uib.no/AcoHum/book/ Edited by: Koenraad de Smedt, Hazel Gardiner, Espen Ore, Tito Orlandi, Harold Short, Jacques Souillot, William Vaughan Chapters include: 1. Introduction 2. European studies on formal methods in the … Continue reading →

Outsourcing CMS in Iowa 4/18/2007 By Linda L Briggs The Iowa Community College Online Consortium (ICCOC), made up of seven community colleges, is using an outsourced learning management system to offer its online courses to students across Iowa. The learning … Continue reading →

Extreme Markup Languages®: a friendly, technically challenging, intensive, thought-provoking, argumentative, welcoming, obstreperous conference on markup, managing information, and information structures THE MARKUP THEORY & PRACTICE CONFERENCE August 7-10, 2007 Montréal, Canada http://www.extrememarkup.com/ Extreme is the leading international conference on markup … Continue reading →

Ockham Alerting Service http://alert.ockham.org/ Ockham Alerting Service is a current awareness service based on National Science Foundation Digital Library content. It demonstrates a standards-based method for collecting content, providing access to it, and disseminating it on a regular basis in … Continue reading →

The TEI Members’ Meeting 1-3 November 2007 University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, USA *TEI@20*: 20 Years of Supporting the Digital Humanities The Organizing Committee of this anniversary TEI Members’ Meeting invites individual paper proposals, panel sessions, and poster/tool demonstrations … Continue reading →