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INKE: Call for a Postdoctoral Fellow in Modelling and Prototyping

The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project, funded by a Major Collaborative Research Initiative grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), seeks a postdoctoral fellow in Modelling and Prototyping, with expertise in Data Modelling and Digital Humanities.

This position is based in the Department of English at the University of Victoria, in partnership with the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab. The successful candidate is anticipated to work closely with team members at U Victoria, U Toronto, Acadia U, U Saskatchewan, U Western Ontario, U Guelph, U Alberta, and beyond.

The postdoctoral fellow will work with conceptual data models and new forms of knowledge expression currently under development by INKE, collaborating with INKE’s Modelling and Prototyping team and others, consulting with project stakeholders and potential stakeholders, and liaising with other INKE researchers located in North America and the UK. If interested, then the fellow may also teach Read the rest of this entry »

Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age: E/Merging Reading, Writing, and Research Practices

12 December 2012.  Hotel Parque Central, Havana, Cuba.
Proposals due 15 May 2012.

Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core social/cultural practices that depend on stable reading and writing environments and the new kinds of digital artefacts – electronic books being just one type of many – that must sustain those practices now and into the future.

This one-day gathering explores research foundations pertinent to understanding new practices and emerging media, specifically focusing on work in textual and extra-textual method, in itself and via exemplar, leading toward [1] theorizing the transmission of culture in pre- and post-electronic media, [2] documenting the facets of how people experience information as readers and writers, [3] designing new kinds of interfaces and artifacts that afford new reading abilities, Read the rest of this entry »

ETCL Digital Humanities Training / Workshop Series

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab  is accepting nominations for visiting instructors to its ongoing digital humanities training / workshop series for the 2012-13 academic year.  This series runs aligned with, and outside of, the Digital Humanities Summer Institute.

One such workshop, an Introduction to TEI led by Malte Rehbein (Wurzburg), ran over the March 24th weekend and was sponsored by ETCL and the Faculty of Humanities (http://dhsi.org/events.php#MarchWorkshop); that event is now sold out.

To nominate a workshop subject area and visiting instructor, before 30 April 2012 please send a proposal to etcl.discussion@gmail.com of no more than one page that includes [1] the digital humanities workshop subject area, and a brief rationale for the importance of supporting local training in this area, [2] the name, affiliation, and chief accomplishments of the proposed visiting instructor, [3] a brief description of past workshops they have offered in the area, and [4] the proposed timing of the workshop on campus.   Resources are available for travel, lodging for up to 5 days, and a modest honorarium.  Preference will be given to workshops in pan-disciplinary areas not currently addressed by DHSI core offerings, aligned with demonstrable local need. Read the rest of this entry »

ETCL Visiting Speaker Series

ETCL is accepting nominations of leading figures and emerging leaders in the digital humanities to its visiting speaker series for the 2012-13 academic year.

To nominate a visiting speaker, before 15 April 2012 please send a proposal to etcl.discussion@gmail.com of no more than one page that includes [1] the name, affiliation, and chief accomplishments in the digital humanities of the nominated visitor, [2] a listing of their chief publications (including digital), [3] a suggestion of their proposed activities, including the groups to which they will speak, and [4] the proposed timing of their visit to campus.   Resources are available for travel, lodging for up to 5 days, and a modest honorarium.  Preference will be given to those whose work is team- and community-oriented, speaking to a wide, interdisciplinary digital humanities audience.

About the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab @ UVic

The ETCL engages in cross-disciplinary study of the past, present, and future of textual communication, and is a hub for digital humanities activities across the University of Victoria campus, Read the rest of this entry »

Activities of the Implementing New Knowledge Environments Project 2008-2010

The Implementing New Knowledge Environments (INKE) project contributes to the development of digital information environments that build on past textual practices – work that is sometimes described as exploring the future of the book from the perspective of its history.

INKE is directed by Ray Siemens (U Victoria) and is led in 2012-13 by Siemens, Richard Cunningham (Acadia U), Stan Ruecker (Illinois Institute of Design), Lynne Siemens (U Victoria), Jon Bath (U Saskatchewan), and Jon Saklofskie (Acadia U); past leaders have included Teresa Dobson (U British Columbia), Alan Galey (U Toronto), and Claire Warwick (University College, London). INKE is funded via a $2.5 million, 7-year Major Collaborative Research Initiative (MCRI) grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), plus an additional $10.4 million in contributions from institutional and research partners. The international INKE Research Group consists of 35 researchers across 20 institutions and 21 partner agencies, with workinvolving some 19 postdoctoral research fellows and 53 graduate research assistants. INKE began in 2004-5 as HCI-Book: Human-Computer Interface and the Electronic Book, a Strategic Research Cluster supported by SSHRC.

For a full description of the INKE’s activities please download the following pdf.

inke-activities-2008-2010

Brown Bag Lecture: Does the World Need Another Website?

“Does the World Need Another Website? An Insider’s View of Starting a DH Project”
Dr. Laura Estill, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, ETCL
Wednesday, March 28th
12 - 1 p.m.
Clearihue C108

The ETCL invites you to attend the seventh and final meeting of the 2011-12 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime seminars for faculty and graduate students in the Faculty of Humanities and across the university to discuss issues in digital literacy, digital humanities, and the changing face of research, scholarship, and teaching in our increasingly digital world. For an hour once per month, we meet to hear from an invited speaker, share ideas, and build knowledge.

On Wednesday, March 28th, from 12 until 1 p.m., Laura Estill (Banting Postdoctoral Fellow, ETCL) will be presenting a talk entitled, “Does the World Need Another Website? An Insider’s View of Starting a DH Project.” Read the rest of this entry »

Brown Bag Lecture: Close Reading, Distant Reading and in Between

“Close reading, distant reading and in between: visualizing spaces of knowledge in early medieval scholarship”
Dr. Malte Rehbein, Director of the Centre of Digital Editing at Würzburg University, Germany; Visiting Scholar at the ETCL
Wednesday, March 21st
12 - 1 p.m.
Clearihue C108

The lab invites you to attend the sixth meeting of the 2011-12 Brown Bag Speaker Series. This is a series of informal lunchtime seminars for faculty and graduate students in the Faculty of Humanities and across the university to discuss issues in digital literacy, digital humanities, and the changing face of research, scholarship, and teaching in our increasingly digital world. For an hour once per month, we meet to hear from an invited speaker, share ideas, and build knowledge.

On Wednesday, March 21st, from 12 until 1 p.m., Malte Rehbein (Director, Centre of Digital Editing, Würzburg University; Visiting Scholar, ETCL) will be presenting a talk entitled, “Close reading, distant reading and in between: visualizing spaces of knowledge in early medieval scholarship.” Details are below. Please share this announcement with anyone who might be interested in attending.
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The ETCL is Seeking a Coordinator / Assistant Director

Note: We are no longer accepting applications for the position advertised below. Thank you for your interest, and keep an eye on our website for upcoming opportunities!

The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at UVic is looking for someone to join its team as full-time Coordinator or Assistant Director.

As a candidate for this position, you are an organised, self-starting, natural manager and planner who takes initiative; you have good facility with computing, and understand the value of literary, historical, and/or language studies; you understand what it means to support and participate in innovative work within larger structures; you are a team player, and engender a positive work environment; you have a university degree, and documented experience in the areas above; you want to join a dynamic environment in which you can make a difference, drawing on your experience with operations, research-facilitation, and outreach.

Candidates with advanced experience will be considered at the level of Assistant Director.

To apply, send a brief cover letter, CV, and the names and contact details for three referees to etcl.jobs@gmail.com.

Applications will be reviewed as received, beginning 21 March, until the position is filled. Read the rest of this entry »

March 13th, 3:30pm - Nuts and Bolts: The Pleasures and Perils of Starting a DH Project

The ETCL team is pleased to announce the next Nuts and Bolts meeting.

Professor Janelle Jenstad, general editor of the Map of Early Modern London, will guide our conversation.  She will lead us through a discussion of the process of starting and refining a Digital Humanities project, and has generously agreed to take all our questions!  Regardless of DH expertise, everyone is welcome.

We will meet on Tuesday March 13 at 3:30pm in the University Club’s bar and lounge. We hope you will join us for an informal discussion of the day-to-day challenges of working on humanities computing projects.

March 7, 7:00pm: Humanities 2.0? Considering New Ways of Engagement With Those Outside the Ivory Tower

Distinguished Professor Lecture
Dr. Ray Siemens, Department of English
“Humanities 2.0? Considering New Ways of Engagement With Those Outside the Ivory Tower”
Wednesday, 7 March, 7:00 p.m.
Social Sciences and Math Building, Room A102

The ETCL team is pleased to announce Ray Siemens’ distinguished professor lecture. The recent adoption of computing into our culture’s social space is changing elements of how society understands the Humanities and, importantly, adding considerably to the ways in which those in the Humanities can imagine reaching out to and involving an increasingly engaged populace. Drawing on over a decade of work in the digital humanities in conjunction with the Centre for Digital Humanities Innovation (VIU) and Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (UVic), the talk will explore elements of this movement in its humanities-centred interdisciplinary academic context with examples ranging from electronic books and re-mixed music video to WikiMedia.