Category Archives: Digital Humanities

Dot porter announces that there will be two TEI-related sessions at Kalamazoo this year taught by James C. Cummings of Oxford The Medieval Academy of America Committee on Electronic Resources is pleased to announce two TEI workshops to be held … Continue reading →

Voyaging into a new decade! TCC WORLDWIDE ONLINE CONFERENCE April 17-19, 2007 Pre-conference dates: April 3-4, 2007Conf: TCC Online: U-Learning http://tcc.kcc.hawaii.edu/2007/tcc/welcome.html INTRODUCTION. E-Learning is passe. U-learning is the new wave globally in higher education. Ubiquitous learning encompasses e- learning and … Continue reading →

The report produced by M. Stoner re: the UVM web redesign can be found at: http://www.uvm.edu/webguide/redesign/?Page=updates.php The opening page has some interesting recommendation. (UVM name/password required on first visit) Updates on the progress will be posted to the webteam blog: … Continue reading →

Now Online: The Companion to Digital Humanities, eds. Susan Schreibman, Ray Siemens, John Unsworth. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/ Chapters/articles on: Part I: History 1. The History of Humanities Computing 2. Computing for Archaeologists 3. Art History 4. Classics and the Computer: An End … Continue reading →

Digital History Reader: Teaching Resources for European and United States History http://www.dhr.history.vt.edu The Digital History Reader is a free, online set of resources for teaching university courses in United States and modern European history. These materials are available online: www.dhr.history.vt.edu. … Continue reading →

The Library of Congress has launched a series of news feeds using the RSS (Really Simple Syndication) technology. http://www.loc.gov/rss/ The Library’s RSS service has launched with the following feeds: * News, a bulletin service of the latest news from the … Continue reading →

Open Source History: Making History Public http://theaahc.org The American Association for History and Computing (AAHC) 2007 Annual Conference In association with the Brown University Public Humanities Program Providence, RI April 19-21, 2007 Join the American Association for History and Computing … Continue reading →

TAPOR XML Tools: http://taporware.mcmaster.ca/~taporware/xmlTools/summarizer.shtml? TAPOR. the Text Analysis Portal for Research, has been developing text analysis tools for many years. A recent addition are xml tools, including a tool that makes a visualization of the tree structure of any xml … Continue reading →

A wiki that lists and categorizes academic blogs: http://www.academicblogs.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

New Google Project in the Works: http://code.google.com/p/ocropus/ ocropus open source document analysis and OCR system OCRopus is a state-of-the-art document analysis and OCR system, featuring pluggable layout analysis, pluggable character recognition, statistical natural language modeling, and multi-lingual capabilities. Background The … Continue reading →