Author: Craig
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Fidel Castro Search Engine
Cuba built an internet search engine that allows users to trawl through speeches by Cuban leader Fidel Castro and other government sites, but does not browse web pages outside the island. The search engine (www.infosoc.cu/buscador) unveiled at a conference last week underscored restrictions on internet access in communist-run Cuba, which the government blames on US
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Summit on Digital Tools in the Humanities
This site from IATH (the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities) at the University of Virginia contains the findings of a summit held in 2006 about digital tools in the humanities. The report is excellent reading; and points to the need for innovations in the humanities such as ICT Guides (link) Digital tools are
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OSS Watch – open source software advisory service
Based at Oxford University, OSS Watch advices UK higher ed on the use of open source software (link) OSS Watch promotes awareness and understanding of the legal, social, technical and economic issues that arise when educational institutions engage with free and open source software. It does this by providing unbiased advice and guidance to UK
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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