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February 25, 2007
CFP: Nebraska Digital Workshop
Call for Proposals
The Nebraska Digital Workshop
October 5 & 6, 2007
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska's Lincoln (UNL) will host the second annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 5 & 6, 2007 and seeks proposals for digital presentations by pre-tenure
faculty, post-doctoral fellows, and advanced graduate students working in the digital
humanities. The goal of the Workshop is to enable the best early career scholars in the field of digital humanities to present their work in a forum where it can be critically evaluated, improved, and showcased. Under the auspices of the Center, the Workshop will bring nationally recognized senior scholars in digital humanities to UNL to participate and work with the selected scholars. Selected scholars will receive full
travel reimbursement and an honorarium for presenting their work at the Nebraska Digital Workshop.
Selection criteria include: significance in primary disciplinary field, technical innovation,
theoretical and methodological sophistication, and creativity of approach.
Please send proposed workshop abstract, curriculum vitae, and a representative sample of digital work via a URL or disk on or before May 1, 2007 to: Katherine L. Walter, Co-Director, UNL Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, at
kwalter1@unl.edu or 319 Love Library, UNL, Lincoln, NE 68588-4100.
For further details, see the Center's web site at
http://cdrh.unl.edu.
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February 15, 2007
Stanford Syllabus Tool
"Stanford Syllabus is a central, online repository for Stanford class syllabi. It is a project from Stanford's Committee on Undergraduate Standards and Policy and developed by Academic Computing. The goal is for students and their advisors to browse through syllabi to help select the courses that are right for them."
The FAQ: http://www.stanford.edu/group/syllabus/faqs/
Faculty or their designates can upload their syllabus as a .txt, .doc, .rtf, .pdf, or .html to the tool, which then makes them searchable by term and discipline. They can also point the tool to a URL. This is useful because the tool does not talk to other course management systems. Thus, the faculty member can keep one copy of the syllabus as the 'live' copy, and point both the syllabus and their course management system (ex. WebCT) to one URL. That file could easily be updated via WebDav, obviating the need for multiple editing/uploading that hampers many current attempts to make living syllabi available.
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February 13, 2007
Google Books, Google Maps: hist-mash
Google is digitizing books from University of Michigan. UMich is a founding member of the "Making of America" project, a digital library of 19th century materials. What could make this partnership even better? Google Maps.
Here's an example: take a classic work like "Illustrated New York" published in 1888. Search it for things that look like street addresses, then map those to a street map of New York City. Voila! That's exactly what they have done at:
http://books.google.com/books?vid=OCLC57700799
Check it out.
(and if you find any other books at Google where this has been done, please let me know.)
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February 10, 2007
TEI Day, Kyoto 2006 Proceedings
East Asian Center for Informatics in Humanities
Proceedings available at:
http://coe21.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/tei-day/tei-day2006.html
Topics:
* TEI Day in Kyoto and activities of the TEI
OHYA Kazushi (Tsurumi University), Christian Wittern (Kyoto University)
* Why was and is TEI unknown in Japan and will it be better known there?
TUTIYA Syun (Chiba University)
* Languages with scarce textual materials and markup technologies
MATSUMURA Kazuto (University of Tokyo) abstract
* Marking up spoken dialog corpora
TUTIYA Syun (Chiba University), ITAHASHI Shuichi (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Informatics), OHSUGA Tomoko (National Institute of Informatics)
* Markup problems: Syntactical analysis and steps to their resolution
OHYA Kazushi (Tsurumi University) abstract
* TEI: An overview
Syd Bauman Brown University and Lou Burnard, Oxford University abstract
* Towards an internationalized and localized TEI
Sebastian Rahtz, Oxford University abstract
* XML mark-up of biographical and prosopographical data
Matthew Driscoll, University of Kopenhagen abstract
* Presenting TEI texts using topic maps
Conal Tuohy, New Zealand Electronic Text Centre abstract
* Exploring TEI XML documents with XQuery
James Cummings, Oxford Text Archive abstract
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