The Australian Association for Digital Humanities will hold its 2nd conference at the University of Western Australia, 18-21 March 2014. The conference webiste is at http://dha2014.org/ The deadline for submissions is 14 September 2013.

The revelation of JK Rowling as the author of mystery novel "The Cuckoo's Calling" has been widely reported. Perhaps the more interesting story is that of the software used by Patrick Juola to determine Rowling's authorship. Patrick Juola (widely named incorrectly as Patrick Juoma) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duquesne University.

An interesting example of using Google's Ngram database: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/opinion/sunday/crunching-literary-numbers.html?_r=1&

http://www.uws.edu.au/newscentre/news_centre/more_news_stories/uws_appoints_australias_first_professor_in_digital_humanities

The book:logic series of symposia was established in 2010 to bring together postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, independent researchers and academics whose work involves aspects of textual studies: the scholarly editing of literary works and historical documents, the study of versions of works, editorial theory, physical bibliography, codicology and history of the book.

The 2013 Symposium will meet at UQ on Friday 4 October.

Digital humanities pedagogy edited by Brett Hirsch asks us to start thinking critically not only about what is taught under the banner of "digital humanities" and how it is taught, but also to consider the broader institutional implications and political consequences, of doing so. The book is divided into sections: practices, principles and politics.

Dear members of the UQ Digital Humanities community,

The Library has established this Digital Humanities Blog to start a conversation about digital literacies and engagement with digital humanities pedagogy at UQ. It is open to all so please send us your views. We will start posting soon some of our ideas about establishing a digital information literacy program as well as information about parts of the Library's collection that we are digitising.

Bob Gerrity, University Librarian

tDAR - the Digital Archaeological Record - is an international digital archive and repository. It houses data about archaeological investigations, research, resources and scholarship, to provide broad access to a wide range of archaeological data.

The Getty Research Portal provides global access to digitised art history texts in the public domain. The catalogue is multilingual, and provides an open access platform from which to search and download digital copies of publications in the scholarly areas of art, architecture, material culture and other fields.

The Edgar Allan Poe Digital Collection is a digital goldmine for Poe enthusiasts, students and researchers looking for primary sources, and writers and artists who want to dig deeper into Poe's life and work and see original, hand-w