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This three-day seminar is being held at Texas A&M University from Friday, September 12 through Sunday, September 14, 2008. The application deadline is May 30, 2008. The application form and schedule are available on the information page.
Participants need not be currently working on a digital humanities project involving encoded transcription of textual material, but should be seriously considering such work in the future or be actively engaged in a research program in digital humanities for which text encoding would be relevant. Part of the funding for this seminar series goes to provide consultation and advice following the seminar, including assistance with writing grant proposals, advice and assistance on developing TEI schemas and documentation, and guidance on text encoding issues.
Posted by James Smith on Apr 30, 2008
“Digital Humanities: Discovering Buried Treasure”
Tuesday, May 13th, 11:00am – 1:00pm, Glasscock 308
Outcome: New ideas for projects from materials you bring; potentially the seed of a proposal to the Digital Humanities Program for development support.
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Posted by James Smith on Apr 17, 2008
The Texas Open Source Symposium gives attendees an opportunity to mingle with open source users and contributors in a relaxed, one-day series of discussions. The Symposium’s primary focus is on introducing open source to the college community.
The 2008 Open Source Symposium is free and will be held Saturday, April 26, at the C J Davidson Conference Center located on the Angelo State University campus.
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Posted by James Smith on Mar 15, 2008
Any graduate student in good standing at Texas A&M University may now pursue a Digital Humanities Certificate in addition to their stated degree program.
The Digital Humanities Certificate gives students the opportunity to acquire practical knowledge of digital tools and methodologies and to become competent in conducting digital practice activities. Students will receive skills, applied and theoretical, that are necessary to apply computational techniques to complex research problems as well as practical tasks in the humanities.
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Posted by James Smith on Mar 03, 2008
The Melbern G. Glasscock Center for Humanities Research and the Texas A&M University Libraries’ Sterling C. Evans Chair announce the second year of support for the early development of projects in digital humanities. This program will assist faculty in any department in the university by providing up to $10,000 to a project in digital humanities (collaborative or singly directed). Preference may be given to untenured or newly tenured faculty applicants.
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Posted by James Smith on Feb 28, 2008
