Category: humanities computing
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A day in the life of the Digital Humanities
This is the entry I wrote for the ethnographic study yesterday on the day in the life of the Digital Humanities. I am not sure it was a typical day; except all the reflection about the nature of the Digital Humanities. That is typical for me (link). Nanook of the North; a famous (but discreited)…
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How do you define Humanities Computing / Digital Humanities?
The digital humanities is a set of beliefs, theories, practices, methods, and artifacts associated with the use of digital technologies to support, extend, and transform traditional humanistic fields. I follow Erwin Panofsky’s definition of the humanities as those disciplines concerned with interpreting the “records left by man.” (Sexism not intended.) Among the specific assemblage of…
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DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop
DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop 10-12 March 2009 London The majority of scientific research is carried out through short-term, funded projects. Accordingly, principle investigators and researchers must constantly be on the lookout for new funding opportunities to continue their research activity. This, coupled with often limited staffing resources, has meant that data management and curation…
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Digital Humanities Observatory Dublin Lecture
The DHO announces an upcoming presentation by DHO Metadata Manager Dot Porter entitled ‘Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch’. The lecture is presented as part of the Culture and Technology Seminar Series organized by Humanities Advanced Technology And Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, and will be simultaneously webcast. Ms. Porter…
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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’…
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What is Geoparser?
The GeoParser demonstrator is a tool that allows users to upload web pages, text files, metadata records, xml etc., which can then be parsed for geographical names. These are then checked against GeoCrossWalk to obtain explicit geographical coordinates for the location referred to , in order to “geo-tag” the uploaded document. In other words, it…