Category: humanities computing
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Frontiers in Spatial Humanities (Video)
Frontiers in Spatial Humanities from Scholars’ Lab on Vimeo. Bethany Nowvisky talks in ‘the final event of our NEH-funded Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. The Scholars’ Lab/NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship was held at the University of Virginia Library May 25-27, 2010 and concluded with a set of two-minute, three-slide lightning talks by Institute…
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Review: Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford
Digital Humanities Conference, Stanford University, June 2011 Conal Tuohy and myself recently attended the Digital Humanities conference 2011 at Stanford University in California (19-22 June). In its 23rd year, the conference is the peak conference for the application of computing to humanities research with the numerous digital humanities associations holding their annual general meetings at…
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Transcribe Bentham in the NY Times
Another article in a series of articles in the New York Time about the Digital Humanities. This time it is about the Transcribe Bentham project from UCL. Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings —…
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Cyberinfrastructure debates in Australia (Humanities)
For those interested in the Cyberinfrastructure debate within Australia for the humanities, there are a number of key documents to consider. Here is a report produced by Professor Graeme Turner for the Australian Academy of the Humanities titled ‘Towards an Australian Humanities Digital Archive‘. The report came out of a scoping study of Digital Humanities…
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Decoding Digital Humanities #2, August 26
Dear Digital Humanists, Next Thursday 26th , 5.30-7.30 we will meet again in the Prince Albert Hotel, 191 Grattan Street, Carlton, to discuss digital humanities in the pub. ‘Decoding Digital Humanities’ is an informal monthly get together in to discuss all things digital in the humanities. This is an opportunity to meet others working on…