Exciting Opportunity for Early Career Researchers interested in Digital Humanities and Publication

Young Researchers Forum

ESF Humanities Spring 2011

‘Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities’

The Royal Irish Academy is seeking applications for participation in the above named workshop. Please see details in this link.

The European Science Foundation offers, on a competitive basis, full-cost awards to leading early career scholars to participate in the ESF Humanities Spring 2011 two-day ‘new horizons’ workshop in NUI Maynooth, Ireland, 9-11 June 2011.

The topic of the 2011 Humanities Spring workshop is: ‘Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities’.

A group of 20 early career researchers will be selected by open competition and invited to address the opportunities and challenges facing them consequent on changes in publication cultures in the Humanities.

The closing date for submission of applications is 17 Jan 2011.

Digital Humanities Observatory Summer School 2010

It is that time of year again and the DHO summer school is on again. This time there are 80 participants from 12 countries. It is a great mix and there is much news and many ideas to share.

I am in the XSLT course with Laura Mandell and Dana Wheeles - today was excellent - we all got to do a text transformation - and then played around with that - getting to know xsl in the meantime creating internal and external links, footnotes, using different fonts...

So we covered XPath and xsl with an introduction to and practical workshop in xslt so we have achieved a lot in one day - all with wonderful support and great questions from the group teasing out the minutiae of the detail.

I am looking forward to tomorrow - the bar was set high today!

UCC XML and Metadata symposia

I participated in the very excellent class by Faith Lawrence and Kevin Hawkins from the Digital Humanities Observatory today. It was great to be a student and to see another's perspective on the thorny issues of tagging. Who knew about Creole?! Also Faith's PhD thesis involving online narratives will hopefully be helpful to my students.