Here is an interesting article by Guy Patrick Cunningham on modern digital writing, which is fragmentary in all its forms: Fragmentary: Writing in a Digital Age (The Millions, 01, 2012). Here is a quote from the article: “It’s not that fragmentary writing is the only acceptable form of writing today — I have no intention […]
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January 27 2012
EpiDoc and TEI-XML training workshop – Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria
EpiDoc and TEI-XML training workshop Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Giuridiche, Economiche e Sociali dell’Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria – BILG Project June 4-7, 2012
January 3 2012
Working with Text in a Digital Age – Request for Proposal
Tufts University invites applications to “Working with Text in a Digital Age“, a three-week NEH Institute for Advanced Technology in the Digital Humanities (July 23-August 10, 2012) that combines traditional topics such as TEI Markup with training in methods from Information Retrieval, Visualization, and Corpus and Computational Linguistics.
January 1 2012
Citations for evaluating scholarly publications
We post an article by Piero Attanasio published in the last issue of the review Informatica Umanistica (5, 2011): Valutazione delle pubblicazioni ed effetti sul settore editoriale The paper deals with questions concerning the evaluation of Italian scholarly publications and addresses some interesting issues about citations as a criterium for evaluating editorial products.
December 13 2011
eTRACES – Winged words, quotations and our cultural heritage
Be it science or the everyday life – our language contains numerous trails of our cultural legacy in the form of winged words and quotations. Scientists now created new software tools for making this cultural legacy available in digital libraries. With the help of those programs the origin and dissemination of text passages, quotes and […]
December 8 2011
Historical Text Re-use Google Group
Here is a new Google Group called “Historical Text Re-use“. This group is about historical text re-use like quotations, paraphrases, and allusion over several centuries. The main goal of this group is to organize and identify the community. Furthermore, to inform about recent activities in different projects or research papers. Join the group and participate […]
November 17 2011
Citogenesis
Thanks to Marco Büchler and Matthias Richter for signalling us this link to xkcd: Citogenesis
November 11 2011
Working with text in a digital age – NEH Institute at Tufts University
Announcing Working with text in a digital age, a NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities. Co-directors: Monica Berti and Gregory Crane, Tufts University; Anke Lüdeling, Humboldt University. July 23-August 10, 2012 Tufts University, Medford MA This institute will provide participants with three weeks in which (1) to develop hands on experience with TEI-XML, (2) to apply […]
