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Epigraphy at Brown and across the US – Undergraduate Research Project

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CDS assisted Tori Lee ’14 with her summer UTRA (Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award) project. Tori continued work that she had begun in the summer of 2012, updating and adding inscriptions to Prof. John Bodel’s US Epigraphy project. This consisted of sorting through correspondence with museums and other collections that have holdings of ancient Greek … Epigraphy at Brown and across the US – Undergraduate Research Project

“Opening the Archives” on the Brazilian military dictatorship

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CDS is working Professor James Green, and in collaboration with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), the National Archive of Brazil, and the State University of Maring (UEM) on a project, called “Opening the Archives,” to digitize, index, and make accessible the State Department’s declassified documents relating to U.S.-Brazilian relations from the turbulent 1960s, … “Opening the Archives” on the Brazilian military dictatorship

TEI Tools for SEASR

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The Center for Digital Scholarship recently completed a NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to create a set of experimental tools for analyzing TEI texts using the SEASR framework. SEASR lets users arrange and manipulate small computational “components” in series to allow data to be ingested, analyzed, transformed, and visualized. CDS produced about three dozen of … TEI Tools for SEASR

Job opening: Web Applications Developer, TAPAS Project

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The Brown University Library and the TAPAS Project are seeking a developer to lead the technical implementation of the TAPAS service. Working with other members of the Brown Digital Repository development team, the developer will install and customize an instance of Islandora (Drupal and Fedora), and will develop functionality for publishing, describing, analyzing, visualizing, and … Job opening: Web Applications Developer, TAPAS Project

Job opportunity – Digital Repository Manager

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Come join the incredible group here in the Center for Digital Scholarship! We have extended the search for our Digital Repository Manager: The Brown University Library seeks an energetic and innovative individual for the position of Digital Repository Manager. The Brown Digital Repository (BDR) supports digital scholarship at Brown by providing a platform to use, … Job opportunity – Digital Repository Manager

Job opportunity: Digital Repository Manager

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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

“History is speeding up”

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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.”

Digital History Book Reviewed

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The latest issue of The American Historical Review (115:632633, April 2010) reviews R. Burr Litchfield’s Florence Ducal Capital, 15301630, published in 2008 as an ACLS Humanities EBook. The book is accompanied by a digital map of Florence that situates its arguments geographically, and was developed in 2006 by STG. From the review, which considers this … Digital History Book Reviewed