Category Archives: humanities computing

Frontiers in Spatial Humanities (Video)

By Craig | Published: July 29, 2011

Frontiers in Spatial Humanities from Scholars’ Lab on Vimeo. Bethany Nowvisky talks in ‘the final event of our NEH-funded Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. The Scholars’ Lab/NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship was held at the University of Virginia Library May 25-27, 2010 and concluded with a set of two-minute, three-slide lightning talks by Institute [...]

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Review: Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford

By Craig | Published: July 21, 2011

Digital Humanities Conference, Stanford University, June 2011 Conal Tuohy and myself recently attended the Digital Humanities conference 2011 at Stanford University in California (19-22 June). In its 23rd year, the conference is the peak conference for the application of computing to humanities research with the numerous digital humanities associations holding their annual general meetings at [...]

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The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing

By Craig | Published: February 24, 2011

I approach this Digital Humanities journal issue with caution. Although admittedly I have only skimmed the articles (and there are some good arguments being made) someone still needs to make good humanities software to help us understand the human condition in new ways (and these ‘hybrid’ scholars are very much in the minority). I’ll go [...]

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The Computational Turn (Maiking sense of data)

By Craig | Published: January 15, 2011

N. Katherine Hayles at The Computational Turn (Swansea) How We Think: Transforming Power and Digital Technologies Within the Digital Humanities community, there is an on-going dispute about the relation of human to machine eading, in particular whether finding patterns can be a goal in itself or whether it must be linked to interpretation and meaning. [...]

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Transcribe Bentham in the NY Times

By Craig | Published: January 5, 2011

Another article in a series of articles in the New York Time about the Digital Humanities. This time it is about the Transcribe Bentham project from UCL. Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings — [...]

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Cyberinfrastructure debates in Australia (Humanities)

By Craig | Published: October 11, 2010

For those interested in the Cyberinfrastructure debate within Australia for the humanities, there are a number of key documents to consider. Here is a report produced by Professor Graeme Turner for the Australian Academy of the Humanities titled ‘Towards an Australian Humanities Digital Archive‘. The report came out of a scoping study of Digital Humanities [...]

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Decoding Digital Humanities #2, August 26

By Craig | Published: August 19, 2010

Dear Digital Humanists, Next Thursday 26th , 5.30-7.30 we will meet again in the Prince Albert Hotel, 191 Grattan Street, Carlton, to discuss digital humanities in the pub. ‘Decoding Digital Humanities’ is an informal monthly get together in to discuss all things digital in the humanities.  This is an opportunity to meet others working on [...]

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