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Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 06:40:04 +0000 From: Melissa Terras m.terras@ucl.ac.uk Subject: Professional Development Workshops and Digital Humanities?

Dear Humanists,

In the past few years, the ACH/ALLC Annual Conference has often been preceded by a series of workshops, usually providing basic introductions to XML, TEI, and other technologies of interest to those who aim to partake in the digital humanities community. However, there has been little provision of training for academics and practitioners in the field who may like to undertake some professional development at a more advanced level.

There has been some discussion within the ALLC committee as to whether it would be beneficial to the community to organise and support workshops prior to the Digital Humanities conference(s) which may be focussed at providing some kind of professional development training. These would probably be one day workshops on the day prior to the conference.

Topics which have been suggested include (but are not limited to) -content management systems - digital image colour management - eXist databases/servers - visualisation and 3d visualisations - grid technologies and e-science applications in the humanities - xml, SQL and databases - gaming technologies, narratives (and theory?) - three dimensional scanning: tools, techniques and usability.

Would members of the Digital Humanities community be interested in such an endeavour? Are there any topics we should be focussing on? Is the involvement of the organisation(s) in the area of professional development a good idea? If we build it, will you attend?

Thanks

Melissa Terras (Acting Secretary of ALLC) _______________________________________________ Melissa M. Terras MA MSc DPhil CLTHE Lecturer in Electronic Communication School of Library, Archive and Information Studies Henry Morley Building University College London Gower Street WC1E 6BT

Tel: 020-7679-7206 (direct), 020-7679-7204 (dept), 020-7383-0557 (fax) Email: m.terras@ucl.ac.uk Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slais/melissa-terras/

Digital Humanities Quarterly: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/