Monthly Archives: June 2007

Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2007

Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0 The Social Informatics Research Unit (SIRU), University of York, will be running a conference on 5/6th September entitled ‘Towards a Social Science of Web 2.0′. This is in collaboration with the Taylor and Francis Journal Information, Communication & Society (iCS) and the ESRC e-Society Programme. If you are [...]

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Arts and Humanities e-Science Theme

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2007

Arts and Humanities e-Science Theme National  e-Science Institute in Edinburgh* (http://www.nesc.ac.uk/) —————————————————————- *Public Lectures* All lectures will be available as a web cast from http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/themes/theme_06/community.htm —————————————————————- *Monday 18th June* David Shepherd, University of Sheffield Andrew Prescott, University of Wales at Lampeter Robert Crouchley, Lancaster University *Methods and Technologies for Enabling Virtual Research Communities* Newhaven Lecture [...]

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The AHDS Spring/Summer newsletter

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2007

The AHDS Spring/Summer newsletter We’ve just published the latest edition of the AHDS newsletter. You can read it on our website or download a copy. (http://ahds.ac.uk/news/newsletters/spring-2007/) It includes articles on a selection of new collections available via AHDS: a slave trade database, four new collections focussed on Live Art, a corpus of early modern English [...]

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What is Clipperz?

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2007

Clipperz can be used to store and freely organize any kind of confidential textual information, such as passwords, confidential notes, burglar alarm codes, credit and debit card details, PINs, software keys, and so on. Clipperz is free and completely anonymous. Nothing to install. Nothing to backup (link).

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Google Maps Street View

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2007

I suppose that everyone has seen this by now. It would be great to see some interesting applications come out of this beyond the initial wow factor. I wish that I could add my own graffiti for other to see (link).

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Seven major research grants in Arts and Humanities e-Science

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2007

Seven major research grants in Arts and Humanities e-Science, to a total value of over £2m, have just been awarded to UK academic teams as a result of the recent AHRC-EPSRC-JISC Arts and Humanities e-Science Initiative. The projects cover a wide range of subjects in both the arts and the humanities, from dance and music [...]

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Report of the American Council of Learned Societies Commission on Cyberinfrastructure for the Humanities and Social Sciences

By Craig | Published: June 6, 2007

“Cyberinfrastructure” is more than just hardware and software, more than bigger computer boxes and wider pipes and wires connecting them. The term was coined by NSF to describe the new research environments in which high-performance computing tools are available to researchers in a shared network environment. These tools and environments are being built, and the [...]

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