Author: Craig
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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…
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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)