Category: eresearch
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Mapping the worlds photos
This article from David Crandall et.al at Cornell University may be of interest. An historian asked me the other day what were the majore concerns of the Digital Humanities. I tried to explain that once there is a lot of data; like all the books in the 19th Century being in digital form, or all…
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CeRch awarded 1.3 Million Pounds in JISC funding
(A VRE is a Virtual Research Environment…like a blackboard, well not really) The following press release is from the Centre that I work within at King’s College; London. A lot of these projects won’t be of that much interest to researchers (as they are infrastructure grants, not research), however the TEXTvre project may be of…
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GRIT 02: Illusions of Homogeneity
Let’s hope that the grand dreams of eResearch aren’t about ‘research homogeneity’ as cultural homogeneity may have become the case in other areas of cultural activity (thanks to Andrew Garton, the performer, for the link). GRIT 02 examines the death of analogue broadcasting by way of readings from numerous sources describing the process of enclosure…
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MA Digital Asset Management
The Centre where I work at King’s, the Centre for eReseach, in conjunction with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), is starting a new MA course this year in Digital Asset Management. Details of the new course are as follows: The Programme will equip students with the necessary critical and reflective capacities, set…
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Report on the working group on Virtual Reseach Communities
This report from the OSI (Office of Science and Innovatuion) e-Infrastructure Steering Group may be of interest to punters (link).
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A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts:
AHeSSC is organizing a roadshow about e-infrastructure at King’s on 30 January. See below for more details and the programme. It’s free to come along and there will be lunch. To register go to the roadshow website: www.jisc.ac.uk/kingsroadshow. =============== A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts: Using complex digital resources across disciplines’…