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Librarians Learn About Open-Access Resources

Kevin Hawkins at the ASL seminar

25 February 2010 -Kevin Hawkins, Visiting Metadata Manager at the DHO, presented "Discovering Open-Access Resources" at E-MAGINATION: Sourcing, Evaluating & Delivering Electronic Information Resources, the 2010 annual seminar of the Academic and Special Libraries Section of the Library Association of Ireland. In his talk, Hawkins spoke about how scholarly literature is increasingly freely available online, demonstrating a number of strategies for discovering them. He also spoke to the paradigm shift in how new means of dissemination will impact the system of scholarly communication.

Please see the event page for a link to the slides.

Two Workshops at the University of Ulster - Great Interaction and Hands-On Learning

Seeing Data Differently Workshop 19 February 2010 - DHO Digital Humanities Specialists Dr Faith Lawrence and Shawn Day travelled to the University of Ulster to present workshops on Seeing Data Differently: Emerging Tools for Scholarly Analysis and Presentation and A Date with Data: What is this Markup Stuff Anyway? Attendees at both workshops actively participated in two days of hands-on sessions and short lectures designed to foster digital humanities skills development and to encourage discussion and sharing around scholarly practise.

Summer School 2010 Registration Now Open

Picture Showing Attendees Listening To A Lecture At The 2009 Summer School 10 Feburary 2010 - The DHO is pleased to announce that registration for the DHO Summer School, in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative, is now open.

This year, in addition to four-day workshop strands, the DHO is also offering mid-week, one-day workshops. For those unable to attend the entire Summer School, it is possible to register separately for these mid-week workshops and lectures.

IRITH now hosted by the DHO

3 March 2010 - IRITH (Irish Resources in the Humanities) is now hosted by the DHO. IRITH was developed in 1999 by Dr. Susan Schreibman as a gateway to sites on the World Wide Web that contain substantial content in the various disciplines of the humanities in the area of Irish Studies.

IRITH includes entries on a broad range of subjects and these are categorised under the rubrics of archaeology, architecture, art, biographical, film, geography, grants & fellowships, history, Irish language, literature and music.

The Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) is an all-island digital humanities collaboratory working with Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS), national, European, and international partners to further e-scholarship. The DHO is a knowledge resource providing outreach and education on a broad range of digital humanities topics. It provides data management, curation, and discovery services supporting the long-term access to, and greater exploitation of, digital resources in the creation of new models, methodologies and paradigms for 21st century scholarship.

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Upcoming Events

E-Publishing and Digital Scholarly Communication

19 Mar 2010
DHO Workshop: e-Publishing for Postgrads

31 Mar 2010
Symposium on TEI and Scholarly Publishing

28 Apr 2010
DHO Summer School 2010 in Conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative

28 Jun 2010 - 2 Jul 2010