Author: Craig
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Museums in Libya 2.0
Dear friends, After several months of intense and exciting work, the nonprofit research project “Museums in Libya 2.0” (http://lamusediffuse.com/muslibeng.htm) is already available on the Internet. Now we are looking forward your feedback and interaction. The research team lamusediffuse (http://lamusediffuse.com) proposes the use of Social Web tools for the inclusion of non-dominant cultural expressions in the…
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How to create a virtual museum
A good introductory article from the Relics and Selves Archive produced here at King’s College. This virtual exhibition originated with the idea of deconstructing the rarefied and sanctified museum atmosphere, and thus subvert the order and cataloguing of objects which were important to the consolidation of national imaginaires in 1880s Argentina, Brazil and Chile. The…
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International Database of Digital Humanities Projects
This project stalled Arts and humanities computing has since its inception been hampered by the lack of an adequate means for collecting and publishing information about activity in the field. Its interdisciplinary scope and methodological nature, coupled with rapid changes in the technology and long undervalued contributions to scholarship, have so far thwarted the development…
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Wolfenden50: Sex/Life/Politics in the British World 1945-1969
2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Wolfenden Report, a British government inquiry into homosexuality and prostitution which profoundly shaped public debate on the regulation of these sexualities (and others), in Britain and beyond.Most famously, the Report recommended that homosexual acts between consenting adults in private ought not to be an offence and 2007 also…
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Google Maps Street View
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).