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FYI. As Bethany remarks, questions can go directly to her. --- A. Soroka Digital Research and Scholarship R & D the University of Virginia Library Begin forwarded message: > From: Bethany Nowviskie <[log in to unmask]> > Date: July 21, 2009 3:28:39 PM EDT > To: ajs6f Soroka <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Fwd: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship > > Adam, would you kindly forward this to code4lib for me? Keep my > email sig at bottom, if you don't mind, so I can field questions! > -- Bethany > > Bethany Nowviskie > [log in to unmask] > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Bethany Nowviskie <[log in to unmask]> >> Date: July 21, 2009 3:11:33 PM EDT >> To: GIS for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> >> Subject: [Gis4lib] Fwd: Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship >> Reply-To: GIS for Libraries <[log in to unmask]> >> >> 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/ >> >