Category Archives: digitisation

Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments

By Craig | Published: September 30, 2009

(A wonderful new resource from the JISC Digitisation Programme) Previously unpublished recordings of Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) talks from the 1980s online go online today at the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website of the British Library at <http://sounds.bl.uk> Featuring talks and debates with top cultural, artistic and political figures of the day, this latest [...]

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The Text of Dot Porter’s “Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch” Now Available Online

By Craig | Published: September 29, 2009

(an excellent paper that challenges the British Library’s crappy page-turning software) 3 February 2009 – The text of Dot Porter’s talk, “Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch,” including accompanying slideshow and example videos, are now available on the DHO website. Ms Porter, Metadata Manager at the DHO, presented this paper at the Royal [...]

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‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’

By Craig | Published: September 7, 2009

University of Birmingham,24-25 September, 2009. This workshop will review and address the making of tools for collaborative scholarly editing over the web. The workshop leaders joins partners in the COST-ESF Interedition project (http://www.interedition.eu), which is focussing – as is the JISC-funded Virtual Manuscript Room project — on Europe-wide creation of infrastructure and tools for collaborative [...]

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Achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content

By Craig | Published: August 28, 2009

JISC has funded 14 Workshops and Seminars exploring some of the achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content.  Covering a wide range of challenging and cutting-edge developments within digitisation these workshops address questions as diverse as visualising climate change data to digital performance, and issues around robot digitisation technology to Geographical Information Systems in history [...]

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TILE project blog and website launched

By Craig | Published: August 4, 2009

TILE: Text-Image Linking Environment is pleased to announce the launch of its public blog and informational site: http://tileproject.org Our first blog posting includes a description of anticipated TILE functionality. http://mith.info/tile/2009/07/20/welcome/ Upcoming posts will include an invitation to participate in user testing, as well as announcements of software as it becomes available. Visit often, or subscribe [...]

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The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment

By Craig | Published: July 23, 2009

“The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone,” by Joseph Wright, 1771 Dan Edelstein, a Stanford French professor, has been exploring an aspect of the Age of Enlightenment that is less familiar to most, the so-called “dark side” of the enlightenment. He described the differentiating factors. “The prevailing understanding of the enlightenment is one in [...]

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A vision of Britain through time

By Craig | Published: July 7, 2009

Another fantastic resource from the JISC. The JISC-funded A Vision of Britain Through Time website launches today, giving access, often for the first time, to over two centuries’ worth of facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing how 15,000 UK places have changed. The changing story of Britain’s towns and villages can [...]

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