FYI! This is a valuable opportunity for graduate students.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2010 Graduate Student Colloquium June 8-11, 2010

CALL FOR PAPERS: The DHSI will be sponsoring its second annual graduate student colloquium in June 2010. Graduate students attending the Institute are invited to participate in the 2010 colloquium entitled "Making
Connections: Emerging Scholars in the Digital Humanities."

FYI! Call For Papers
***Deadline Extended to September 30th***
The Past’s Digital Presence:
Database, Archive, and Knowledge Work in the Humanities

A Graduate Student Symposium at Yale University

February 19th and 20th, 2010

How is digital technology changing methods of scholarly research with pre-digital
sources in the humanities? If the “medium is the message,” then how does the
message change when primary sources are translated into digital media? What
kinds of new research opportunities do databases unlock and what do they make

Today's Inside Higher Ed ( http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/26/digital ) reports on a joint effort by the Modern Language Association and HASTAC to "offer guidance for departments on approaches used by various colleges to evaluate digital scholarship, resources available to scholars wanting to get a take on some project, and policies that could be adopted to assure the fair treatment of those coming up for tenure." Geoffrey Rockwell is hosting the wiki for this project on at http://www.philosophi.ca/pmwiki.php/Main/MLADigitalWork

When I work on a computer, be it building up the infrastructure or creating a fairly complex web application, I work with layers. Each layer does its own thing and builds on the previous layers while leaving itself open enough that it can be used to build the next higher layer. This comes in part from my experience with FORTH, a stack-based language that organizes code into dictionaries of word definitions so that the programmer works entirely bottom-up. The result is often a set of tools for attacking a problem instead of a monolithic application.