Author: Craig
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Report back: IRCHSS Symposium: Digital Humanities – New Frontiers, Trinity College, Dublin, 14 October 2009
A one day seminar was held at Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 14 October to discuss Ireland’s contributions to the Digital Humanities and the possible futures of the field within Ireland. http://dho.ie/node/634 The seminar, held in a skilfully restored 19th Century Anatomy lecture theatre, was attended by representatives from government, the Irish Research Council (IRCHSS),
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Free London’s Data. Now!
Help us free London’s Data Saturday 24th October 2009 10.00 am London’s Living Room City  Hall The Queens Walk London SE1 2AA The Greater London Authority is currently in  the process of scoping London’s DataStore. Initially we propose to release as much GLA data as possible and to encourage other public agencies in London to
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Call for papers:Digital Humanities 2010
Next years Digital Humanities Conference is to be held at King’s College London (c0-hosted by CCH and CeRch). The call for papers is now out. Abstract Deadline: Oct. 31, 2009 Proposals must be submitted electronically using the system which will be available at the conference web site from Oct. 1st. Presentations may be any of
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UK.gov appeals for developers to mashup 1,000 datasets
UK.gov is calling on developers to consult the Cabinet Office on its prototype website that will open some government datasets to the public. It wants the developer community to get involved in shaping what apps, data sources and features the website should contain. “With over 1,000 existing data sets, from seven departments (brought together in
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Report back: ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ Birmingham, 24 September
I attended the ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ workshop on Thursday (24 September) organised by the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. There were presentation by many leading figures of electronic textual editing from the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia, Ireland, and Britain. The workshop was organised
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The Text of Dot Porter’s “Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch” Now Available Online
(an excellent paper that challenges the British Library’s crappy page-turning software) 3 February 2009 – The text of Dot Porter’s talk, “Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch,” including accompanying slideshow and example videos, are now available on the DHO website. Ms Porter, Metadata Manager at the DHO, presented this paper at the Royal