Author: Craig
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Designing Historical Databases
The AHDS has produced a number of case studies concerning good practice within the Digital Humanities. Here is one on database design (link). It is in relation to the Religion, dynasty and Patronage project c. 440-840. The database is available online (buggered if I could get it to work though), and you can also download…
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A Day at Oxford
I spent yesterday at Oxford University learning XML-TEI. Oxford Computing Services has a number of fantastic courses and rather than simply being service-orientated-computing as in most institutions, the Oxford Computing Service has a research agenda as well (with a much deeper focus upon computing in the humanities). The course was taught by Lou Burnard; one…
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EVA Conference London 2007
The e-science (AHeSSC) section of the AHDS is going to this event. The EVA London conference is a forum for communicating the uses and implications of electronic visualisation in culture and the arts. Held annually, it is for groups and organisations from a wide range of disciplines to share and promulgate results. The scope includes…
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Who is Dariah?
Ok, if you though DARIAH was a nice German girl from Potsdam ,then you are only partly right. DARIAH is a proposal to build a central European data centre to support the Arts and Humanities. Sounds scary? Well only if a Dutch anarchist hacks into it and changes all the records from Britain in the…
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Snow in London
When I got up today and walked outside of the little flat I am looking after in Islington, the streets were covered in snow. I have never seen snow in London before; it makes it seem so cosy and warm. I slushed along the streets to the tube and had to put the ridiculous hood…
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What is e-social science?
OK, now that you understand e-science…what is e-social science? Well I am glad you asked. E-social science is like e-science in that it utilises a high capacity research ‘grid’, but the questions that is concerns itself with, chiefly focus upon large social questions such as population trends. E-social science has its own data centre (called…