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DiSCussion with Lauren Klein: Archival Silence

Submitted on Tue, 2012-4-3 at 1:45 pm
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From 4:30-6:00 pm on Wednesday, April 4, the Digital Scholarship Commons will host a DiSCussion with Dr. Lauren Klein, Assistant Professor in Georgia Tech's School of Literature, Communication, and Culture. The event is titled "Archival Silence, Digital Humanities, and James Hemings."

DiSC Symposium on Disability and Technology

Submitted on Mon, 2012-4-2 at 5:13 pm
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On Friday, April 6, The Digital Scholarship Commons will host a Symposium on Disability and Technology. The symposium is intended to connect the digital humanities with disability studies. While access is often discussed in the digital humanities, few scholars really look at the cultural and social impact of new technologies on disabled persons and communities. 

Defining "Digital Humanities"

Submitted on Mon, 2012-3-26 at 2:36 pm
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It's that time of the year again: the Day of the Life of the Digital Humanities or Day of DH. As has been the case since 2009, hundreds of digital humanities practitioners will take to the blogs and Twitter (follow #dayofDH) to talk about what they do throughout a single day's work. The goals of the project are various, but among them are highlighting the wide array of activities that fall under the banner of DH. It also doesn't hurt to sometimes remind people who wonder if college professors work hard enough exactly what we do with our time.

Digital Classists and NEW plan for Perseus Digital Library

Submitted on Fri, 2012-3-23 at 1:59 pm
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The Next Generation of the Digital Classics Collaboration: Perseus Project’s New Plan                      by Jong Hwan Lee (PhD Candidate in Philosophy, Woodruff Fellow, Emory Libraries)

On March 20, Perseus Digital Library, which assembles digital collections of Greek and Roman resourses, announced plans to promote online collaboration.

Perseus announces plans to decentralize the curation, annotation, and general editing of the TEI XML texts that it hosts. Ultimately this will include every textual object in Perseus, allowing individuals to modify (where rights allow), and to create new, dictionary and encyclopedia entries, translations, commentaries, introductions, as well as machine actionable annotations such as identifications of people and places and the morpho-syntactic analyses in the Greek and Latin Treebanks. 

See demo videos for editing, reviewing, and creation of new translations below.

It is hard to tell from the prototype youtube clips what the actual and final outlook of this change would be like. But I think there are lots of potential for this new plan.

DiSC Call for 2012-2013 Proposals

Submitted on Thu, 2012-3-8 at 10:09 am
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The Digital Scholarship Commons (DiSC), with generous funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is excited to announce that it is seeking applications for a new round of digital scholarship projects to begin development in summer 2012.  Successful proposals will receive a small budget (up to $8,000), dedicated technical support, and project management.

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