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Website et Registration open for Digital Humanities: The example of Antiquity / Site web et inscriptions ouvertes pour Humanités numériques : l'exemple de l'Antiquité
by Pierazzo, Elena 07 May '15

07 May '15

[version française en bas] Dear All, It is my pleasure to announce that we launched the web site for our conference Digital Humanities/ The example of Antiquity (DHAnt). Please visit the website at http://dhant.sciencesconf.org<http://dhant.sciencesconf.org/> and tell what you think. A more elaborate design is under way, but we thought better not to hold the launch for this. Registrations are now open: please notice that registration is required and free of charge. During registration, please indicate for which meals (which are complimentary) you will be present Please have a look at ou rich Workshop programme: http://dhant.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7 and consider to register for one of them. Workshops are equally free of charge. Please spread it widely! Looking forward to see you in Grenoble Elena Pierazzo and Isabelle Cogitore ________________ Cher-e-s collègues, Nous sommes ravies de vous annoncer que le site web du colloque Humanités numériques: l'exemple de l’Antiquité est désormais ouvert. Vous pouvez le visiter au http://dhant.sciencesconf.org<http://dhant.sciencesconf.org/>. Nous sommes en train de préparer un rendu graphique plus captivant, mais nous avons pensé de ne plus attendre avant de lancer le site. Les inscriptions sont ouvertes aussi: l’inscription est gratuite et obligatoire. Au moment de l’inscription vous êtes priés d’indiquer les repas (offerts) auxquels vous voulez participer. Nous vous invitons également à visionner le riche programme d’ateliers qui sont offerts par la conférence: http://dhant.sciencesconf.org/resource/page/id/7. Les atelier sont également sans frais. Nous vous prions également de diffuser ces informations et liens le plus largement possible. Au plaisir de vous rencontrer tous à Grenoble Elena Pierazzo et Isabelle Cogitore __ Elena Pierazzo Visiting Senior Research Fellow King's College London Department of Digital Humanities King's College London 26-29 Drury Lane London WC2B 5RL Professor of Italian Studies and Digital Humanities Bureau F307 Université Grenoble Alpes - GERCI BP 25 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9 Tel. +33 4 76828032

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Announcing the Schoenberg Institute's OPenn_A new resource for free and open manuscript data
by Lynn Ransom 06 May '15

06 May '15

Have at it, folks . ****************** The Penn Libraries and the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies (SIMS) are thrilled to announce the launch of OPenn: Primary Resources Available to Everyone (http://openn.library.upenn.edu <http://openn.library.upenn.edu/> ), a new website that makes digitized cultural heritage material freely available and accessible to the public. OPenn is a major step in the Libraries' strategic initiative to embrace open data, with all images and metadata on this site available as free cultural works to be freely studied, applied, copied, or modified by anyone, for any purpose. OPenn launches with the entire corpus of manuscripts donated to the Penn Libraries in 2011 by SIMS founder Lawrence J. Schoenberg and his wife Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg. The Schoenberg Collection features manuscripts from all over the world, with a focus on science, technology, engineering and mathematics. To interest the public in the visual splendor of materials on OPenn we have uploaded some images from the Schoenberg Collection onto Flickr at http://tinyurl.com/mm84j7s, with links in the records to OPenn. More datasets, including manuscripts from the University of Pennsylvania's own holdings and items from other institutions, will be added to the site in the near future, so stay tuned. Historic diaries from a variety of institutions belonging to the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries (PACSCL <http://pacscl.org/> ) are next in line for inclusion on OPenn. Many of these documents are unknown while others are celebrated, such as the Union League's Tanner manuscript: a firsthand account of the events surrounding the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Images of the manuscripts are currently available on OPenn at full resolution, with derivatives also provided for easy reuse on the web. Downloading, whether several select images or the entire dataset, is easily accomplished by following instructions or recipes posted in the Technical Read Me <http://openn.library.upenn.edu/TechnicalReadMe.html> on OPenn. The website is designed to be machine-readable, but easy for individuals to use, too. Dot Porter of SIMS has already used the dataset to create e-books from the images and metadata on OPenn. You can download the e-books in the free and open epub format at Penn Libraries' Scholarly Commons <http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_ebooks/> . She has also used the Internet Archive BookReader <https://openlibrary.org/dev/docs/bookreader> , an open source online page-turning book reader, to generate online versions of each manuscript. An example using LJS 225, Litterarum simulationis liber, can be seen at: http://dorpdev.library.upenn.edu/BookReaders/ljs225/#page/4/mode/2up . You can search and browse manuscripts in OPenn (along with digitized manuscripts from The Digital Walters) here: http://viewshare.org/views/leoba/openn-and-digital-walters/. These are just a few ways the data can be manipulated. We hope you are inspired to reuse OPenn data and to share your project with the world. If you have any questions or comments, send us an email at openn(a)pobox.upenn.edu.

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HASTAC 2015, May 28-29, East Lansing, Michigan - Registration Closes 5/13
by Kristen Mapes 05 May '15

05 May '15

HASTAC 2015: Exploring the Art & Science of Digital Humanities May 27-30, 2015 Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI #hastac2015 Join us on the campus of Michigan State University to celebrate and explore a range of Digital Humanities Scholarship, Research, and Performance! The conference features sessions that address, exemplify, and interrogate the interdisciplinary nature of DH work. HASTAC 2015 challenges participants to consider how the interplay of science, technology, social sciences, humanities, and arts are producing new forms of knowledge, disrupting older forms, challenging or reifying power relationships, among other possibilities. We are delighted to feature the following speakers: - Cezanne Charles & John Marshall, rootoftwo, “Whithervanes: a neurotic, early worrying system THR_33 (Tea House for Robots) ( hastac2015.org/schedule/keynote-speakers/rootoftwo <http://www.hastac2015.org/schedule/keynote-speakers/rootoftwo/>) - Roopika Risam, Salem State University, “Across Two (Imperial) Cultures: A Ballad of Digital Humanities and the Global South” ( hastac2015.org/schedule/keynote-speakers/roopika-risam <http://www.hastac2015.org/schedule/keynote-speakers/roopika-risam/>) - Scott B. Weingart, Carnegie Mellon University, “Connecting the Dots” ( hastac2015.org/schedule/keynote-speakers <http://www.hastac2015.org/schedule/keynote-speakers/>) The full conference schedule may be found at hastac2015.org/schedule <http://www.hastac2015.org/schedule/>. Pre-conference activity: HASTAC Scholars Unconference, May 27 Post-conference activities: Workshop on Text Mining with the HathiTrust Research Center, May 30; Software Carpentry and Data Carpentry workshops, May 30-31 Registration will close on Wednesday, May 13 at the rate of $200 ($100 students). Find more information about registration at hastac2015.org/registration <http://www.hastac2015.org/registration/>. Onsite registration will be available at a higher rate. Please email hastac2015(a)gmail.com with any questions about the conference and join the Facebook group to network with participants in advance of the conference (facebook.com/groups/HASTAC2015 <https://www.facebook.com/groups/HASTAC2015/>) Kristen Mapes Digital Humanities Specialist College of Arts and Letters Michigan State University 718-216-5695 kristenmapes.com kmapes(a)msu.edu kmapes86(a)gmail.com

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1st EADH international Day 8th October 2015- Call for participation
by Elena González-Blanco 04 May '15

04 May '15

***apologies for cross-posting*** Dear all, It is apleasure for us to announce that thefirst EADH International Day on the 8th October 2015 at UNED(National University for Distance Education – Open University) Madrid, Spain. The firstannual European Association for Digital Humanities Symposium (EADH Day) will beheld in conjunction with the 2nd International Conference of the Hispanic Digital Humanities Association at UNED, and hosted by LINHD in Madrid. The purpose of theevent is to provide the principal annual focus for practitioners of DigitalHumanities in Europe to network and discuss common challenges andopportunities. Participantsmay contribute directly to EADH Day agenda in two ways: - Through a 5 minute lightning talk presenting either recent research developments or key topics of interest to the digital humanities community (e.g. ‘The potential of Linked Data for annotating medieval music scores’). Participants wishing to present lightning talks should provide a two-page abstract of the presentation in English which will be made available online prior to the event. - Through the proposition of a challenge for participants to address during the event related to the themes of: collaborating across borders collaborating across languages collaborating across disciplines collaborating across curricula Challenges should take the form of an open question (e.g. ‘Does DH have an impact on minority languages? How can it strengthen their use and support research on them?’), with one or two paragraphs of text justifying its significance. Submissionsshould be sent via this web by May 15th and lightning talks and challengeswill selected by an EADH panel. Presentation of a lightning talk or challengeis not a requirement and anyone may register to attend the event via the www.hdh2015.linhd.es website. You canfind the call for participation and all the information concerning registrationand venue at HDH conference website: http://hdh2015.linhd.es/eadh-day-2015/ Please, feel free to distribute across lists, people and collaborators. Best regards, Elena González-Blanco García Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ http://linhd.uned.eswww.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco @elenagbg

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CfP reminder: Hackathon on Text Re-use
by Greta Franzini 04 May '15

04 May '15

**With apologies for cross-posting** Digital Humanities Hackathon on Text Re-Use: ‘Don’t leave your data problems at home!’ 27-30 July, 2015 Hosted by the Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities (GCDH), Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany Organised by: Emily Franzini, Greta Franzini and Maria Moritz The Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities will host a Hackathon targeted at students and researchers with a humanities background who wish to improve their computer skills by working with their own data-set. Rather than teaching everything there is to know about algorithms, the Hackathon will assist participants with their specific data-related problem, so that they can take away the knowledge needed to tackle the issue(s) at hand. The focus of this Hackathon is automatic text re-use detection and aims at engaging participants in intensive collaboration. Participants will be introduced to technologies representing the state of the art in the field and shown the potential of text re-use detection. Participants will also be able to equip themselves with the necessary knowledge to make sense of the output generated by algorithms detecting text re-use, and will gain an understanding of which algorithms best fit certain types of textual data. Finally, participants will be introduced to some text re-use visualisations. Application deadline: 15 May 2015 For more information, please visit: http://etrap.gcdh.de/?p=669 -- Greta Franzini Postdoctoral Researcher Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Georg-August-University Göttingen Papendiek 16 D-37073 Göttingen, Germany W: http://etrap.gcdh.de W: www.gretafranzini.com E: gfranzini(a)gcdh.de T: @GretaFranzini

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DayofDH 2015 launched!
by Elena González-Blanco 02 May '15

02 May '15

Dear Digital Humanists, It is a pleasure for us to announce that the DayofDH 2015 website has just been opened! we invite you to visit it at http://dayofdh2015.uned.es, to join our community and to spread this message across mailing lists, social networks and other channels in order to reach the maximum number of Digital Humanists! Our purpose is to answer the question: What do digital humanists do? and see which the panorama in 2015 is. The “Day” or official closing date to add content to the website and blogs is May 19th. This year we offer two novelties: DayofDH is hosted for the first time outside North America, in Madrid by LINHD (Digital Humanities Innovation Lab @UNED), and, for that reason, we have tried to organize a “bilingual” DayofDH and to offer both an English and a Spanish version of the contents of our website. We encourage you to translate your posts and to help others translating! Also, parallel activities will be developed in the different countries to “celebrate” the Day. Editathons, thatcamps and crowdsourcing events will be planned and announced via this web!And last but not least…ENJOY THE DAY!!! Elena González-Blanco Director of LINHDhttp://linhd.uned.es Dpto. de Literatura Española y Teoría de la Literatura, Despacho 722Facultad de Filología, UNED Paseo Senda del Rey 7 28040 MADRID tel. 91 3986873 www.uned.es/remetca http://filindig.hypotheses.org/ www.uned.es/personal/elenagonzalezblanco @elenagbg

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