Lexicography Revisited: Dictionaries in the Age of Digital Humanities Toma Tasovac Center for Digital Humanities Belgrade 2pm, Wednesday April 27, Bopp Seminar Room, John Hay Library A dictionary is many things at once: a text, a tool, a model of language and a cultural object deeply embedded into the historical moment of its production. The … CHUG talk: Lexicography in the Age of Digital Humanities
We’re hiring! Come join this amazing team as the Library’s Digital Repository Manager. Details: The Brown University Library in Providence, Rhode Island, seeks an energetic and innovative individual for the newly created position of Digital Repository Manager. The Digital Repository Manager will oversee the development of the Brown Digital Repository (BDR), a Fedora Commons-based initiative … Job opportunity: Digital Repository Manager
The Atlantic has posted an online image gallery which uses some images from The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923: Materials from the Dana and Vera Reynolds Collection. In August 1923, William Dana Reynolds, with his wife Vera Hunt Reynolds and their young daughter Helen, embarked from Honolulu on the Japanese steamship Taiyo Maru, bound for … The Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923
The Computers in the Humanities Users Group and the Brown University Library present: Infrastructure for Digital Humanities: Challenges for Computational Linguistics in Mining Million Book Collections David Smith Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2:00 PM Tuesday, March 15 Bopp Room, John Hay Library Concerted scanning projects are making significant amounts of data … Infrastructure for Digital Humanities: Challenges for Computational Linguistics in Mining Million Book Collections
In honor of the centennial celebration of the John Hay Library, Dr. Vartan Gregorian will address Information and Knowledge in an Age of Technology. Introduction by President Ruth J. Simmons Reception to follow at the John Hay Library Thursday, March 17, 2011 4 PM Sayles Hall, Brown University
This year’s conference theme is “Organizing Knowledge”, and focuses on systems of knowledge representation in relation to different kinds of archival practice. The Keynote lecture will be by Laurie Crumpacker, Simmons College: “Teaching the New American Renaissance and Margaret Fuller”. The conference’s full schedule is now available. Women in the Archives is co-sponsored by the … Women in the Archives: a Conference on the Role of Archival Materials in the Study and Teaching of Early Women’s Writing
We look forward to working closely with the Digital Humanities Librarian. This is a new position that is part of the Library’s Scholarly Resources group. Apply here (job number B01284). Details: As the Library’s primary liaison to academic departments in the humanities, the Digital Humanities Librarian plays a central role in the integration of digital … Job posting: Digital Humanities Librarian
Ted Widmer reflects on Lincoln research, utilizing digitized materials, and blogging: http://news.brown.edu/features/2011/02/disunion . See also the Library’s “Lincolniana at Brown.”
The newly designed Women Writers Project web site is now live, and there has been an addition of twelve new texts to Women Writers Online. Highlights include three dramas by Aphra Behn, Margaret Cavendish’s Philosophical Letters (1664), Sarah Stone’s A Complete Practice of Midwifery (1737), and Hannah Kilham’s Memoir of the Late Hannah Kilham (1837). … Women Writers Project
The Spring 2011 New England Archivists meeting will be held on April 1-2, 2011, at the Pembroke Center at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The general theme of the conference is “The Future of Archives.” On Friday, Educational workshops will be offered in audio digitization, managing electronic records, and developing a records management program. … New England Archivists meeting
