Monthly Archives: March 2007

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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E Research in Australia Conference

There is an E Research Conference coming up in Brisbane, Australia on June 26-29. There is a stream on E Research in the Arts and Humanities for those who are interested (link)

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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 [...]

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How to record and transcribe interviews

From the AHDS blog: One of the increasingly common project outputs is for recorded interviews to be made available as audio files and or transcriptions. There are numerous sources of advice for those planning to do such interviews http://blogs.ahds.ac.uk/?p=26 

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Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and Industry

AHeSSC workshop at UK All Hands meeting 10-13th September 2007, East Midlands Conference Centre, Nottingham MINI-WORKSHOP CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Text and Grid: Research Questions for the Humanities, Sciences and Industry http://www.allhands.org.uk/news/textgridws_call.cfm Textual resources play a pivotal role not only in research, but also in business. In 2003 alone, 300 Terabytes of textual data were produced, [...]

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