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Vacancy: DHO IT Manager

4 February 2010 - Applications are invited for a fifteen-month, fixed term contract position of IT Manager to the DHO. 

Reporting to the DHO Director, the IT Manager will be responsible for:

  • the development, implementation, management and maintenance of web applications, software and hardware systems for the Academy Digital Resources (ADR) and the DHO portal/DRAPIer and repository
  • the development of strategies to ensure the long-term preservation of the DHO’s digitised content
  • provision of technical foresight and project management for the DHO and ADR
  • day-to-day management of the IT function of the DHO.

Further information and details of the application process are available on www.ria.ie and on this site under Vacancies. The closing date for applications is Monday 22nd February 2010.

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Digital Humanities Workshops: Metadata, Markup and Emerging Tools for Scholarly Analysis and Presentation - Registration Open

University of Ulster2 February 2010 - The DHO in conjunction with the University of Ulster is proud to present two one-day digital humanities workshop events: Seeing Data Differently and A Date With Data. Lead by Digital Humanities Specialists Shawn Day and Dr K Faith Lawrence these workshops will take place 17th and 18th February at the Magee Campus, University of Ulster.

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Digital Humanities Symposium: Metadata, Markup and Digital Managment

7 January 2010 - The DHO is delighted to announce a two-day digital humanities event run in conjunction with University College Cork. The symposia and workshops will take place on January 14/15th. The first day will be devoted to digital project management and include hands-on sessions with some of the tools available for researchers. The second day provides an introduction into markup, metadata, and encoding principles, followed by a more focused afternoon workshop on TEI.

For more information and instructions on how to register, please see the event page.

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Announcing the DHO 2010 Summer School

10 December 2009 - The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July 2010 in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative.

For more information please visit the Summer School site

Following the highly successful 2009 Summer School, next year’s event will see the expansion of popular workshop strands such as:

  • A Practical Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative
  • Data Visualisation for the Humanities
  • An Introduction to EpiDoc Markup and Editing Tools
  • The One to Many Text: Text Transformations with XSLT

The Summer School will feature lectures by Dr. Hugh Denard (King's College London Visualisation Lab) and Dr Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster).

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