Month: April 2008
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Old Bailey opens its unseen files
The long arm of the law now stretches across time: from tomorrow, the transcripts of every trial heard at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 can be read online, free of charge. The records of more than 210,000 criminal trials held from shortly after the Great Fire of London until just before the Great…
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New on ICTGuides
ICT Guides is a service offered by the Centre for eResearch at King’s College in London (CeRch). It seeks to promote the use of ICTs in research and learning through cataloging digital arts and humanities projects along with the tools and methods they employed. A number of new projects have been added to ICT Guides:…
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Digital Darwin
90,000 new pages of work connected with Darwin have gone online for the first time. Guardian science correspondent James Randerson gives you a tour of the Darwin treasure trove (link) Also see the ICT Guides entry for this project. http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=875
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What is the Southern Cross Resource Finder?
The Southern Cross Resource Finder (SCRF) is a web-based resource that enables users to discover collections from libraries, archives and museums which hold resources useful for the study of Australia and/or New Zealand. It has been produced by and is maintained by the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies, King’s College London and was produced by…
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Trans-Atlantic Digitisation Project
A collaborative project between the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s and New York University, is among the first to receive a new Transatlantic Digitization Collaboration Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Joint Information Systems Committee (link).
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Soap Box Project
This project led by Dr Sally Young at the University of Melbourne will be of interest to those who wish to understand the history of political advertising in Australia. Politicians and members of the public would once stand atop a soapbox in order to shout their message across to an audience. Now they use a…