DIGHUMLAB is a new national consortium in Denmark that promotes digital research resources and tools for the humanities. It includes four universities and two libraries. The kick-off meeting discussed defining digital humanities, showcasing existing centers, and outlining DIGHUMLAB's mission and goals which include developing laboratory facilities, an integrated portal, and collaborating internationally on standards and methods. Next steps discussed were applying for grants, hosting workshops, and a potential September 2013 conference on best practices in digital humanities.
2. TOC
• Definitions, issues and debates in the Digital Humanities.
• What are Digital Humanities centres? Are there new ones? For
example at Princeton!
• And organizations like HASTAC and http://www.arts-
humanities.net.
• DIGHUMLAB draft mission and goals.
• European organizations, DARIAH, CLARIN, NeDiMAH, etc..
• Some famous and useful case studies, tools and methods
• Education opportunities.
• Getting started in DH..
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4. DH:service or paradigm
Whether Digital Humanities should be the application
of computing, or an inquiry as to how digital media
will or can irrevocably change the Humanities.
David Parry. (n.d.). The Digital Humanities or a Digital Humanism. Debates
in the Digital Humanities - Matthew K. Gold - Google Bøger.
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5. The Hermeneutics of Screwing Around; or
What You Do with a Million Books-
Stephen Ramsay April 17, 2010
From the very start, the Web outstripped our ability
to say what is actually there…. A humanist scholar—
of whatever discipline, and however postmodern—is
by definition a believer in shared culture…
There are so many books. There is so little time. Your
ethical obligation is neither to read them all nor to
pretend that you have read them all, but to
understand each path through the vast archive as an
important moment in the world’s duration—as an
invitation to community, relationship, and play.
HTTP://WWW.PLAYINGWITHHISTORY.COM/WP-CONTENT/UPLOADS/
2010/04/HERMENEUTICS.PDF
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6. DIGITAL HUMANITIES
1. Direct, Practical, Uses of 4. The way new technology is
Computational Methods for reshaping research and the
Research: profession:
"humanities computing" projects, Kathleen Fitzpatrick's work on
computer-enabled authorship academic publishing, Bethany
study text mining and markup, Nowviskie's posts on alternative
(see Tom Scheinfeldt) academic career paths.
2. Media Studies folks studying 5. Using Technology for Public
"New" Media: Programming:
…political critique. mobile platforms, GPS-based
tours, museum installations, web-
based exhibits that engage a
3. Using Technology in the public audience (maybe
Classroom: crowdsourced), etc.
The concern for how various
technologies change pedagogy
Example: Refer Brian Croxall here 6. Archive Building:
and very next post less about research tools and
more about gathering, building,
testing digital archives/libraries for
use by scholars/students/public
audiences
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7. HASTAC
The three pillars of HASTAC, since 2002,
have been:
(1) new media,
(2) critical and creative thinking about the
role of new media in society
(3) participatory learning (formal and
informal).
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8. DH CENTRES
! Resource focused, organized around a
primary resource, located in a virtual
space, serves a specific group.
! Center focused organized around a
physical location, with activities are
undertaken by researchers, and
students, offer many different resources
to diverse audiences. Most USA
centers.
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9. DH in USA... by Diane M. Zorich, 11/ 2008
http://www.clir.org/pubs/reports/pub143/pub143.pdf
further humanities scholarship, ! offers digital humanities training
create new forms of ! conducts research in humanities and
knowledge, and explore humanities computing (digital
technology’s impact on scholarship);
humanities based disciplines. ! offers lectures, programs, conferences,
or seminars on digital humanities
topics for general or academic
! builds digital collections as scholarly or audiences;
teaching resources;
! creates tools for
! has its own academic appointments
and staffing
◦ authoring (i.e., creating multimedia
products and apps with minimal
! creates a zone of experimentation and
technical knowledge or training) innovation for humanists;
◦ building digital collections ! serves as an information portal for a
particular humanities discipline;
◦ analyzing humanities collections,
data, or research processes ! serves as a repository for humanities-
based digital collections
◦ managing the research process;
! departments uses digital collections
! provides technology solutions to
humanities.
and analytical tools to generate new
intellectual products;
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10. Europe DH centres
UCL Centre for Digital Humanities University College London, UK http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dh/
Göttingen Centre for Digital Humanities Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany http://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/136017.html
Humanities Research Centre University of Sheffield, UK http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/hrc/
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/digital/
The Digital Humanities Centre University of Nottingham, UK
index.aspx
http://www.kcl.ac.uk/artshums/depts/ddh/
Centre for Computing in the Humanities King’s College, London, UK
redirect.aspx
Digital Humanities Observatory Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland http://dho.ie/
The Humanities Advanced Technology and
University of Glasgow, Scotland http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/hatii/
Information Institute
Centre Informatique de Philosophie & Lettres University of Liege, Belgium http://www.cipl.ulg.ac.be/
Cologne Center for eHumanities University of Cologne, Germany http://www.cceh.uni-koeln.de/
Computerlinguistik und Technologie University of Bielefeld, Germany http://coli.lili.uni-bielefeld.de/index.html
Hamburg Digital Humanities University of Hamburg, Germany http://www.hdh.uni-hamburg.de/
Zentrum für Informationsmodellierung in den
University of Graz, Austria http://gams.uni-graz.at/
Geisteswissenschaften
Le centre CATI (Cultures Anglophones et
University of Sorbonne, Paris, France http://www.cati.paris4.sorbonne.fr/
Technologies de l’Information)
HUMlab University of Umeå, Sweden http://www.humlab.umu.se/english/?languageId=1
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11. DIGHUMLAB themes
Theme 1: Language-based materials and tools,
CLARIN, see http://clarin.dk
Theme 2: Mediatools (the Net Archive, Net Lab) AU,
(subcontractor: State Library) and Developing tools
for audio and visual media AU, http://www.netlab.dk/
Theme 3: Interaction and Design Studios, AAU and
SDU
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17. DIGHUMLAB in brief
DIGHUMLAB is a national consortium of four Danish
universities: Aalborg University, Aarhus University,
the University of Copenhagen and the University of
Southern Denmark. Together with the State and
University Library and the Royal Library,..promote
access to digital research resources, the
development of research tools and education,
strengthening ties to international networks.
http://www.dighumlab.dk
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18. DIGHUMLAB LAUNCH
HTTP://DIGHUMLAB.DK
◦ Theme 1: Language-based materials
and tools, CLARIN, http://clarin.dk
◦ Theme 2: Mediatools (the Net
Archive, Net Lab) AU, subcontractor:
State Library) and Developing tools Fra venstre: Jens Erik Mogensen, prodekan
KU, Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, dekan AAU,
for audio and visual media AU, http:// Flemming G. Andersen, dekan Syddansk
www.netlab.dk/ Universitet, Lauritz B. Holm-Nielsen, rektor
AU, Morten Østergaard, uddannelsesminister,
◦ Theme 3: Interaction and Design Mette Thunø, dekan AU og formand for
DIGHUMLBs styregruppe Erik Champion,
Studios, AAU and SDU projektleder DIGHUMLAB
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19. DIGHUMLAB Mission
• DIGHUMLAB will be a national distributed research infrastructure that
integrates and promotes digital resources, tools and opportunities to
Danish researchers in the humanities and social sciences, and also at
European and international levels.
Goals
• DIGHUMLAB will develop laboratory facilities to support experimental
humanities and social sciences research with associated development of
database facilities and metadata structures.
• DIGHUMLAB will provide an integrated and useful web portal linking
Danish researchers with digital assets, and tools, methods, debates and
opportunities in the Digital Humanities.
• DIGHUMLAB will both influence and benefit from European and
international collaboration in the development of appropriate and relevant
Digital Humanities standards, methods, tools and services; and in the
adoption and adaptation of digital humanities resources to best enable
Danish research in the Digital Humanities.
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20. Assessing ourselves..
• The promotion of solutions to access, preservation, training and inter-disciplinary
issues in Digital Humanities.
• The explicit development of tools, new collaborative and stand-alone research
projects, and the mentoring of students
• and scholars in the wider area of Digital Humanities.
• Demonstrated involvement in Digital Humanities-related policy formation involving
and impacting on Denmark, and Europe, and the wider international community.
• Demonstrated involvement in Digital Humanities-related research and research
dissemination, involving Denmark, and Europe.
• Demonstrated involvement in the development and dissemination of best practices (in
terms of standards, methods, services, data, tools and infrastructure projects) in
Digital Humanities research and scholarship.
• Academically recognized publication outcomes, detailed in both the annual reports
and final report to the Ministry.
• Success in grants and a record of satisfactory completed academic projects.
• Membership of international Digital Humanities-related academic associations and
organizations
• Quantifiable user feedback and peer esteem on the collaboration, development and
dissemination of DIGHUMLAB’s involvement in the Digital Humanities, via Danish,
Nordic, European and international user groups and organizations.
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21. The story so far
• LAUNCH 10 September 2012
• CLARIN eu has ERIC status
DARIAH is likely to receive that soon
• EU consortium grants, staff exchanges etc
• Various IT support project have been and will be hired
• Negotiating with Danish libraries
• DIGHUMLAB Mission being discussed
• NeIC grants applied for, RESAW, AALC workshop
application, EU, NORDPLUS etc applications possible
• Advisory Board discussed this week
• 17 APRIL 2013 TransAtlantic Debate, Aalborg
• Potential September 2013 Conference
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22. 2012 LAUNCH
2013 LAUNCH PART 2
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23. How to recognize the
best step forward?
• I am proposing a conference in September, to investigate what
best practice means in the digital humanities
• There is the option of debating paradigms in the humanities (or
do paradigms only exist in the sciences?)
• Of investigating
• Examining how projects and tools and services are judged
• How best of class can be transferred from traditoonal to digital humanities
• How awards are determined, how futures are predicted, and past
achievements judged..
• Asking leading grants and funding bodies how they judge digital
humanities applications..
• And the chance to invite and learn from the triumphs and mistakes of
leading researchers in the many fields exploring digital humanities
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28. http://lookingforwhitman.org lookingforwhitman.org/
THIS ONLINE SPACE WILL BE USED BY FOUR DIFFERENT
COURSES AT FOUR DIFFERENT COLLEGE CAMPUSES TO DISCUSSED IN SLIDES AT HTTP://
SHARE THEIR INTELLECTUAL EXPERIENCES OF DIGITALSCHOLARSHIP.FILES.WORDPRESS.COM/2011/10/
DHGLCA-5.PDF
EXPLORING WHITMAN’S WORK IN RELATIONSHIP TO
SPECIFIC PLACES IN WHICH WHITMAN LIVED.
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29. Digital edition of the Saint Gall corpus of Sequences by Notker
Balbulus
e-sequence
• Nisi enim ab homine
memoria teneantur, soni
pereunt, quia scribi non
possunt.
• Unless sounds are
remembered by man, they
perish, for they cannot be
written down
Isidore of Sevilla, c 625
http://www.e-sequence.eu/en/digital-edition/2
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30. HISTORY PIN
• Pin your history to the world. 192,682 photos, videos, audio clips and stories pinned so far.
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35. PAPER MACHINES
PROJECT
USES ZOTERO OR JSTOR DATA TO
DATE
VISUALIZELAYERS
DATE CLIENT
NAME
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36. POPCORN MAKER ENHANCE, REMIX AND SHARE WEB VIDEO. USE YOUR
WEB BROWSER TO COMBINE VIDEO AND AUDIO WITH CONTENT FROM
THE REST OF THE WEB — FROM TEXT, LINKS AND MAPS TO PICTURES AND
LIVE FEEDS.
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40. MIXED REALITY
PROJECT
HTTP://VIRTUAL.VTT.FI/VIRTUAL/PROJ2/MULTIMEDIA/ HTTP://AEL.GATECH.EDU/LAB/RESEARCH/
PROJECTS/MRCONFERENCE.HTML ARSECONDLIFE/USING-THE-AR-SECOND-LIFE-CLIENT/
DATE CLIENT
DATE NAME
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41. INTERACTIVE 3D WEBCAM /
WEBCHAT
• http://www.airtightinteractive.com/2012/08/webcammesh-demo/
• HTML5 demo projects webcam video onto WebGL 3D Mesh
http://www.airtightinteractive.com/2012/08/
http://verold.com/
webcammesh-demo/
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42. Near Something
Closest sites:
5.23 km
5.47 km
5.48 km
5.59 km
Cheat - About
nearsomething.com
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43. visualization tools
! http://www.chromeexperiments.com/ ! http://www.esri.com/software/mapping-
OR http://knottedline.com/tkl.html for-everyone/
! http://www.ludoscience.com/EN/blog/ ! http://neatline.org/ stories via maps
634-Craftyy-an-online-tool-geared- http://hotchkiss.scholarslab.org/neatline-
towards-collaborative-game-design.html exhibits/show/battle-of-chancellorsville/
fullscreen
! http://t-pen.org/TPEN/ T-PEN is a web-
based tool to attach transcription data ! AR http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/
to the actual lines of the original 9842-seven-awesome-augmented-
manuscript in a simple, flexible interface. reality-campaigns OR Toozla: http://
www.augmentedplanet.com/2009/12/
! http://www.textal.org/ to help scholars the-worlds-first-audio-augmented-
design wordclouds and produce reality-browser/
statistics
! HTML 5 movie threader http://evelyn-
! http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/ directory interactive.searchingforabby.com/
of DH tools
! Crowd tagging and the museum http://
! http://selection.datavisualization.ch/ www.imamuseum.org/page/collection-
data viz tools tags
! http://www.cassiopeiaproject.com/ ! http://pleiades.stoa.org/ A community-
videos2.php hi-def science videos built gazetteer + graph of ancient places
! http://digitalhumanities.org/centernet/ ! Epics, e-learning platform for digital
resources/tools/ heritage http://vimeo.com/33711147
! http://humanexperience.stanford.edu/ ! papermachines OR scalar
digital_humanities
! 3D SLOODLE - Simulation Linked
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49. DO ONLINE COURSES SPELL THE END
FOR THE TRADITIONAL UNIVERSITY?
• http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs291/CourseRev/1
• http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2012/nov/11/online-free-learning-end-of-university?CMP=twt_gu
Sebastian Thrun
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50. TRENDS IN HIGHER
PROJECT
HTTP://AWESOME.GOOD.IS/TRANSPARENCY/WEB/1109/
DATE CLIENT
DATE NAME
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51. http://www.europeana.eu/portal/
THE MASSIVE DATASET IS THE DESCRIPTIVE INFORMATION ABOUT EUROPE'S
DIGITISED TREASURES. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE METADATA IS RELEASED UNDER
THE CREATIVE COMMONS CC0 PUBLIC DOMAIN DEDICATION, MEANING THAT
ANYONE CAN USE THE DATA FOR ANY PURPOSE - CREATIVE, EDUCATIONAL,
COMMERCIAL - WITH NO RESTRICTIONS.
ONLINE OPEN DATA IS A CORE RESOURCE WHICH CAN FUEL ENTERPRISE AND
CREATE OPPORTUNITIES FOR MILLIONS OF EUROPEANS WORKING IN EUROPE'S
CULTURAL AND CREATIVE INDUSTRIES. THE SECTOR REPRESENTS 3.3% OF EU GDP
AND IS WORTH OVER €150 BILLION IN EXPORTS.
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53. FREE OR OPEN DATA
! Tim Berners-Lee http://www.wired.co.uk/news/
archive/2012-11/09/raw-data
! When governments begin to release data openly
on the web, the growing movement of hackers and
activists and even internal government agencies
and corporations, can begin to use the previously
unconnected and undissected numbers, images and
graphs to create new ways for you to access
valuable new information.
! The Ghana Open Data Initiative (GODI) just held
Ghana's first data bootcamp, bringing together
journalists and developers to find, extract and
analyse public data to tell better informed news
stories.
! http://www.thewebindex.org/
! http://www.theodi.org/
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54. FREE OR OPEN DATA
! http://www.slideshare.net/JuryKonga/open-data-new-
reality-community-benefits
! http://www.pbs.org/idealab/2012/11/how-
openspending-is-getting-the-story-out-of-the-
data313.html
! http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/how-open-
source-big-data-can-improve-supply-chains/4833 (VP,
Nike, Financial Times Innovate 2012 conference)
! http://mashable.com/2012/11/07/open-data-city-apps/
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55. HTTP://OPENSPENDING.ORG/
• Explore existing
spending
datasets
• Upload and
share a financial
dataset
• Make your own
budget
monitoring site
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56. Opening Up Digital
Humanities Education
“Can a New Research Library Be All-Digital?” m
Lisa Spiro and Geneva Henry
collaboration in the digital humanities in
Collaborative Approaches to the Digital in English
Studies, edited by Laura McGrath;
“What Is She Doing Here?” for #alt-ac: alternate
academic careers for humanities scholars, edited
by Bethany Nowviskie.
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57. A DH certificate program
Open:
Anyone should be able to use and even to create or modify course materials produced for the certificate
program. Openness promotes the values of DH and education (David Wiley: “education is sharing“)...
Distributed:
the program would give participants access to experts around the world, who would serve as mentors for
projects and online seminars. EG Dave Cormier and George Siemens’ “Education Futures” and David
Wiley’s “Introduction to Open Education.”
Community-focused:
Students would regularly participate in online forums and other networked conversations with their cohort
group, as well as with the larger community...coordinate crowdsourcing efforts such as transcriptions or
distributed editions, gaining an embedded knowledge of how networked communities work.
Balanced between making and reflecting:
..Participants could both build–collections, networks, tools, methods–and reflect on the process,
significance, and theoretical dimensions of what they have built.
Competency rather than credit based:
...as a basic understanding of programming, knowledge representation, media studies, digitization,
networked communication, and the history of digital humanities/humanities computing. Prior knowledge
and participation at other DH events–summer institutes, hackfests and the like–should count. Participants
in the DH certificate program could demonstrate their competencies through open online portfolios that
would be evaluated by the community through an open peer review process.
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59. Curation:
http://www.digcur-education.org/
• DigCurV brings together a network of partners to
address the availability of vocational training for digital
curators in the library, archive, museum and cultural
heritage sectors needed to develop new skills that are
essential for the long-term management of digital
collections.
• CURATE The Digital Curator Game is available for
download to all Network Members: designed to be
used as an exercise that prompts players to put
themselves into digital project scenarios in order to
address issues and challenges that arise when
institutions engage with digital curation and
preservation.
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60. DIGITAL CURATION
http://dhcuration.org/institute/
Participants will learn how to:
Model humanities data for sustainable computational
research
Identify, assess, and mitigate risks to their data
Evaluate tools and systems for working with data
from a curatorial perspective
DIGITAL HUMANITIES DATA CURATION INSTITUTES WORKSHOP: SUMMER
2013, ILLINOIS
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61. Euro summer schools
Digital Humanities Summer School Switzerland –
26-29 June 2013 – University of Bern
http://www.dhsummerschool.ch/?p=7
Digital.Humanities@Oxford Summer School, Oxford
8-12 July 2013 http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/
dhoxss/
"Culture & Technology" European Summer School in
Digital Humanities, 21-31 July 2013, Leipzig, http://
www.culingtec.uni-leipzig.de/ESU_C_T/
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62. where to go from here
Starting points, CFPS, tools..
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63. Getting started
Read http://digitalscholarship.wordpress.com/
2011/10/14/getting-started-in-the-digital-humanities/
and download Lisa Spiro’s slides
The_CUNY_Digital_Humanities_Resource_Guide
especially http://commons.gc.cuny.edu/wiki/
index.php/Defining_the_Digital_Humanities
Learn from the Programming for Historians and
download tools from bamboo DiRT Or surf ideas at
http://thoughtmesh.net/publish/416.php
Keep an eye on http://dighumlab.dk/
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64. Getting moving..
Find and organize a grant with likeminded scholars
Develop a workshop (NeDiMAH, ALLC)
Swap with other scholars (DARIAH)
Contribute to online archives (CLARIN et al)
Join an online community debating your issues
Propose a radical new PhD course (DIGHUMLAB)
Apply for a PhD scholarship or Postdoc opportunity
Enter a workshop or competition or hackathon or THATcamp
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65. DH Journals etc
• http://digitalhumanitiesnow.org
• http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/
• http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org
• http://www.digitalstudies.org/ojs/index.php/digital_studies
• CfP: Journal of Digital Culture and Electronic Scholarship
http://jdces.org/Submissions.html
• Literary and Linguistic Computing http://
llc.oxfordjournals.org
• The Journal of Interactive Technology and Pedagogy
http://ojs.gc.cuny.edu/index.php/itcp/index OR http://
jitp.commons.gc.cuny.edu
• Ongoing calls
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66. CFP opportunities
• Future traditions, (3D), 4-5 April, Porto, http://futuretraditions.arq.up.pt
• Narrative Minds and virtual worlds, 21-22 May, Tampere
http://fransmayra.fi/2012/12/03/cfp-narrative-minds-and-virtual-worlds-
conference-21-22-may-2013/
• XI. Conference “Culture and Computer Science”, 23-24 May, Pergamon
Museum, Berlin DE, http://inka.htw-berlin.de/kui/13/about
• framing the digital curation curriculum, Florence, 6-8 May
http://www.digcur-education.org/eng/News/Call-opens-for-DigCurV-
conference
• The future of education, 13-14 June, Florence http://www.pixel-online.net/
foe2013/
• Communities and Technologies, 29 June - 2 July, Munichhttp://
www.ct2013.cnss.de/cfp/submission/
• APEx conference, "Building infrastructures for archives in a digital world”
26-28 June, Ireland, see http://www.dariah.eu news (site down)
• http://mediaplaces2012.humlab.umu.se/ 2013 Helsinki 2014 Lund
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67. !
http://thoughtmesh.net/publish/416.php
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71. PALENQUE 2006
• This recreation was based
on the Popol Vuh, if players
navigated the archaeological
recreation correctly, they
could be teleported to
Xibalba, the mythic Mayan
underworld.
In 2006 two students recreated this in 6 weeks, featuring 3D joystick, surround projection,
and a dancemat that the player walked on in order to move about the virtual environment.
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