Author: Craig
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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…
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What is a good Digital Humanities project?
If you were wondering what a good Digital Humanities projects is, then check out the LAIRAH project at University College London that has produced a succinct check list: (link)
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AHDH History
The Arts and Humanities Data Service (where I work) has a number of offices throughout the UK that specialise in more disciplanary approaches to digital technology in the humanities. This is one of the reasons that I like Digital Humanities (or ‘Humanities Computing’) in that it respects the body of knowledge and autonomous directions built…
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JISC Conference
JISC is an interesting organisation that funds investment in ICTs in the higher education sector in the UK (they fund my post). JISC is funded by a number of Universities in the UK and they use the money to invest in a broad range of research ranging from learning, network infrastructure, administration, and digital content…
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Virual Vellum
“Virtual Vellum is an e-Science demonstrator project that has been funded by EPRSC/JISC/Arts & Humanities e-Science Initiative and the UK e-Science Core Programme with the aim of promoting and demonstrating the use of technology within arts and humanities research. The aim of the project is to investigate technologies that facilitate the retrieval, manipulation and annotation/hotspotting…