Monthly Archives: April 2007

What is OpenDOAR?

OpenDOAR is an authoritative directory of academic open access repositories. Each OpenDOAR repository has been visited by project staff to check the information that is recorded here. This in-depth approach does not rely on automated analysis and gives a quality-controlled list of repositories (link).

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e-Science Institute Public Lecture: A Potential for All: e-Science for the Arts and Humanities

Ms Sheila Anderson (AHDS and AHeSSC) and Professor David Robey (AHRC ICT Programme) The first lecture of the Arts and Humanities e-Science Theme at the e-Science Institute in Edinburgh will be held on April 30th at the eSI, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh. Tea and coffee will be served at 1.30, and the lecture will [...]

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Data Sans Frontières: web portals and the historic environment

Organised by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network and supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and The British Museum, this one-day conference takes a comprehensive look at exciting new opportunities for disseminating and integrating historic environment data using portal technologies and Web 2.0 approaches. Bringing together speakers from national organisations, national and local government [...]

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Queer Online: Media Technology and Sexuality

Not my favorite publisher in the world, but this book has currency none the same. The ideas in it are rich, if lacking in evidence (and yes it is possible to do both). This collection draws together contemporary research into queer theory and practices, as they intersect with new media and communication technologies. It provides [...]

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Video Google: A Text Retrieval Approach to Object Matching in Videos

We will demonstrate an approach to object and scene retrieval which searches for and localizes all the occurrences of a user outlined object in a video. The object is represented by a set of viewpoint invariant region descriptors so that recognition can proceed successfully despite changes in viewpoint, illumination and partial occlusion. The temporal continuity [...]

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Rustam mortally wounds Suhrab

This is one of the reasons I love the Digital Humanities. Check out some of the document on this project (the Shahnama Project). These 42 documents represent one scene in an epic poem; they are collected from all around the world and spread a seven hundred year period. Fantastic! (link).

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Virtual Knowledge Studio, 3-month Postdoctoral Fellowship, KNAW, Amsterdam

Applications are invited for three-month fellowships within the Virtual Knowledge Studio for the Humanities and Social Sciences (VKS), a programme funded by the KNAW (Royal Dutch Academy for Arts and Sciences). The VKS aims to support researchers in the humanities and social sciences in the creation of new scholarly practices, termed here e-research, as well [...]

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