Category: e-science
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Report back: ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ Birmingham, 24 September
I attended the ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ workshop on Thursday (24 September) organised by the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. There were presentation by many leading figures of electronic textual editing from the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia, Ireland, and Britain. The workshop was organised…
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Scientific Collaborations on the Internet
(A fantastic book for e-Science buffs!) Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants. Historically, scientific collaborations were carried out by scientists in the same physical location—the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for example, involved thousands of scientists gathered on a remote plateau…
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what is the eSAD Project?
(The magnifying glass is perhaps a form of ‘Interpretation Support System’. The eSAD project is another ambitious and well-conceptualised project from AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative (sorry, an overly complicated set of acronyms here…my acronym is bigger than your acronym!) Anyhow what particularly attracts me to this project is its use of the concept…
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Christine Borgman lecture@OII
Christine Borgman gave an interesting lecture at OII (Oxford Internet Institute) recently (she is one of the Keynote speakers at this years Digital Humanities Conference. One of the major points that I retained from this talk is that Data is not objective fact. Data is simply the ‘alleged evidence’ as one researchers observations may differ…
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Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) wins NEH Grant
(The new Digital Humanities Observatory in Dublin has some innovative projects. This new ‘VRE’ (Virtual Research Environment) collaborative-style of project may be of interest to viewers). A collaborative project between the Digital Humanities Observatory, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and Indiana University Bloomington has been selected to receive a major grant from the…