UCLDH

Painless Introduction: Paper in the brave new digital world

Events, painless introductions No Responses »

Jan 142011

The next event in the Painless Introduction series of lunchtime talks will take place on Tuesday, 25 January, in Room G31, UCL Foster Court, 13.05-13.50 hrs. Anne Welsh will speak on Paper in the brave new digital world: In this Painless Introduction Anne Welsh will discuss the impact of the computer on Historical Bibliography (the study [...]

The History Blogging Project

Events No Responses »

Jan 112011

We have had this launch event notice forwarded to us by Yolana Pringle from the University of Oxford. This event is run by postgraduates for postgraduates, so it may be of interest to many of you. Details follow below. The History Blogging Project will be launched at an event hosted by The History Lab on Tuesday [...]

Cultural Heritage and the Semantic Web British Museum & UCL Study Day

Events No Responses »

Jan 062011

– via Dominic Oldman – When: Thursday January 13th 2011 Where: 9.15 to 3:30 at BM, The Hugh and Catherine Stevenson LT 16.00 – 19.00 at UCL Roberts Building, Room G08 The World Wide Web is an essential part of the Museum’s toolkit for publishing information, engaging visitors and communicating across the globe. However, museum web sites and [...]

Transcribe Bentham makes the New York Times

digital humanities, Media, UCLDH in the media Comments Off

Dec 282010

UCLDH’s very own Transcribe Bentham project gets written up in the New York Times: Starting this fall, the editors have leveraged, if not the wisdom of the crowd, then at least its fingers, inviting anyone — yes, that means you — to help transcribe some of the 40,000 unpublished manuscripts from University College’s collection that have [...]

UCL Centre for Digital Humanities 2010-11-22 22:46:01

Workshops Comments Off

Nov 222010

— via www.esf.org — Humanities Spring 2011 Early Career Researchers Forum: “Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities” The ESF Standing Committee for the Humanities (SCH) offers on a competitive basis, full-cost awards to leading early career researchers in the Humanities to participate in the “ESF Humanities Spring 2011”. The 2011 event will be held under the title [...]

JOB: Research Assistant at MAA

Vacancies Comments Off

Nov 222010

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology at the University of Cambridge is looking for a Research Assistant with a salary ranging from £23,566 to £26,523 pa. Tenure ends on 31 January 2013: The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology seeks an experienced museum professional to work on an EC project on access to digital collections. The MAA [...]

Remix Cinema Workshop: call for presentations & papers

Call for Papers, Workshops Comments Off

Nov 162010

— forwarded by Tim Davies, Events and Administrative Officer from the Oxford Internet Institute — The Remix Cinema workshop is organised by the Oxford Internet Institute, (University of Oxford, UK) in collaboration with UNIA Prácticas y Culturas Digitales (Universidad Internacional de Andalucía, ES), and is funded by the UK’s Art and Humanities Research Council’s (AHRC) Beyond [...]

London Digital Humanities Group – next meeting

Events Comments Off

Nov 162010

— posted on behalf of Dr Simon Dixon, Queen Mary UL — The next meeting of the London Digital Humanities Group will take place at Dr Williams’s Library, 14 Gordon Square, London, WC1H 0AR on Tuesday 7 December at 5pm. Religious History and the Digital Humanities – Innovative Approaches The meeting will showcase two innovative projects that are [...]

Digital Excursion: Growing Knowledge Exhibition

British Library, digital excursion, Digital Excursions, Events Comments Off

Oct 162010

We are pleased to invite you to the next UCL Digital Excursion, which will take place at the British Library on 25 October, 5.30 – 7.30 pm. By joining this Excursion, you will be the first to experience the “Growing Knowledge: The evolution of research” exhibition – an initiative designed to demonstrate the vision for future [...]