Category: humanities computing
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AHDS Guides to Good Practice
Guides indicating best practice and good standards in digitisation The AHDS publishes a series of Guides providing the arts and humanities research and teaching communities with practical instruction in applying recognised standards and good practice to the creation and use of digital resources. Some of the Guides focus on methods and applications relevant to humanities…
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doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities
CALL FOR PROPOSALS doing digital: using digital resources in the arts and humanities DRHA07 : Dartington College of Art : 9 – 12 September 2007 http://www.dartington.ac.uk/drha07/ Bringing together creators, practitioners, users, distributors, and custodians of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities Over the last decade the annual Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts…
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The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945
The Reading Experience Database is about 10 years old now. It seeks to gather and provide access to (from a community of scholars) evidence of the history of reading in the UK over a 500 years period (pretty ambitious huh?). It is built on some solid conceptual and scholarly ideas, and has just undergone a…
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The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
This year is the 200th Anniversary of the abolition of the Slave Trade in the British Empire. There are a lot of exhibitions and events taking place around London at the moment. Here is a timely new resources from the Arts and Humanities Data Service (btw. this is just the database files you download). The…
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Genevan Sex Crimes Database
Thanks to Alistair Dunning for the Link Exhibit is a tool from MIT. It “enables web site authors to create dynamic exhibits of their collections. The collections maybe browsed using facetted browsing. Assorted views of the collections are provided including tiles, maps, etc”. It allows anyone to put tabular data online with astonishing ease. http://simile.mit.edu/wiki/Exhibit…
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What is ICT Guides: Community?
Part of my job here at King’s is to develop ICT Guides into a sustainable community resource. The present version of ICT Guides is built on a MySql database with a JSTL (Java) interface. The new community component of ICT Guides will (initially) be built on a Joomla (or Drupal) CMS (partly because it has…