Category: education
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Humanities Research Institute: The University of Sheffield
The Humanities Research Institute at the University of Sheffield, like the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London, is one of the leading centres in the UK in the digital humanities. Check out their range of projects.. As its history of successfully completed projects demonstrates, the HRI has to date concentrated on…
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Summit on Digital Tools in the Humanities
This site from IATH (the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities) at the University of Virginia contains the findings of a summit held in 2006 about digital tools in the humanities. The report is excellent reading; and points to the need for innovations in the humanities such as ICT Guides (link) Digital tools are…
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A Day at Oxford
I spent yesterday at Oxford University learning XML-TEI. Oxford Computing Services has a number of fantastic courses and rather than simply being service-orientated-computing as in most institutions, the Oxford Computing Service has a research agenda as well (with a much deeper focus upon computing in the humanities). The course was taught by Lou Burnard; one…
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What is e-social science?
OK, now that you understand e-science…what is e-social science? Well I am glad you asked. E-social science is like e-science in that it utilises a high capacity research ‘grid’, but the questions that is concerns itself with, chiefly focus upon large social questions such as population trends. E-social science has its own data centre (called…