Month: February 2007
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Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the Arts and Humanities
Here is a report done in the UK to help advance peer review processes for digital work in the arts and humanities. Peer review is a problematic issue, especially in Australia, in that many academics who don’t invest any intellectual energy into advancing digital work for humanistic purposes are (ironically) rewarded more than those academics…
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What is TAPor?
I haven’t played with this tool as yet but I would be intereted to hear your ideas… TAPoR is a gateway to tools for sophisticated analysis and retrieval, along with representative texts for experimentation (link).
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Humanities Computing Links
Here is a list of links that are useful for humanities computing research. Thanks to Geoffrey Rockwell for the (link).
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The Circus in America
One of my favorite projects from IATH (the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities) at the University of Virginia is the Circus in America project; spanning the period from 1793-1940. The Circus has been one of the most significant forms of popular entertainment in America. Between 1793 -1940 the circus evolved from a small…
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Fidel Castro Search Engine
Cuba built an internet search engine that allows users to trawl through speeches by Cuban leader Fidel Castro and other government sites, but does not browse web pages outside the island. The search engine (www.infosoc.cu/buscador) unveiled at a conference last week underscored restrictions on internet access in communist-run Cuba, which the government blames on US…