Month: September 2009
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Probing questions in the Digital Humanities?
The ‘Digital Humanities’ is a problematic field partly because is traverses the treacherous chasm between the academic and non-academic. Here is a polemic I wrote on Arts-humanities.net on a forum for the DRHA Conference that starts in Belfast today (and if you ask me nicely, I will give examples). <soapbox> The essence of the humanities…
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NINES Project: Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online (Peer Review system)
The Peer review system for the NINES project may be of interest to punters. Digital humanities projects have long lacked a framework for peer review and thus have often had difficulty establishing their credibility as true scholarship. NINES exists in part to address this situation by instituting a robust system of review by some of…