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From: "Julie Sweetkind-Singer" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "MAPS-L" <[log in to unmask]>, "WAML" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, July 31, 2009 6:56:14 PM GMT -06:00 US/Canada Central
Subject: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship, please apply!
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Hi, all,
Please consider applying for this institute. It will be a great opportunity to learn more about GIS in the humanities. Let me know if you have questions. Distribute to others who may be interested. I will be chairing the Stewardship, Track 1 with Bethany Nowviskie from UVa.
Best, Julie
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The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia Library is now accepting applications for an NEH-funded "Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship," to be held in Charlottesville, Virginia in November 2009 and May 2010.
http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/geospatial/
This program will bring together humanities scholars, software developers, and librarians and other cultural heritage professionals to discuss and develop geospatial tools, content, methods, policies, and infrastructure, in the context of open source and open access. Thirty-one leading academics, developers, and higher-ed administrators serve on the faculty and advisory board of the Institute.
The National Endowment for the Humanities will support travel, working meals, and lodging for 40 attendees as well as Institute faculty members. Special funding is available for graduate students. The University of Virginia Library will also fund up to 5 short-term scholar- and developer-in-residencies at the Scholars' Lab to complement the Institute's focus on humanities GIS.
Three four-day Institute tracks are planned:
15-18 November 2009:
Track 1: Stewardship (for library, museum, GIS and digital humanities center professionals)
Track 2: Software (for Web developers, designers, systems administrators, and information scientists)
25-28 May 2010:
Track 3: Scholarship (for humanities scholars, advanced graduate students, and post-docs)
Application DEADLINES are September 1st (for Tracks 1 and 2) and December 1st (for Track 3). Special consideration will be given to those who apply as part of an institutional team, as the curriculum is designed to foster robust technical and social infrastructure, at a local level, for geospatial scholarship in the digital humanities.
Apply to attend at the URL above, and please help distribute this message widely!
Bethany Nowviskie, MA Ed, Ph.D
Director, Digital Research & Scholarship, UVA Library
Associate Director, Scholarly Communication Institute
http://lib.virginia.edu/scholarslab/ ● http://uvasci.org/
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Julie Sweetkind-Singer
Head Librarian; GIS & Map Librarian
Branner Earth Sciences Library & Map Collections
Stanford University
397 Panama Mall; MC 2211
Stanford, CA 94305
(650)725-1102
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