Author: Craig
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The Economic and Social Data Service (UK)
The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching
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Scholarship in the Digital Age (Bibliography)
A usuful resource from Christine Borgman’s book (bibliography…link) “Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from
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Opening soon: a digital library for Europe
Europe’s cultural diversity in books, music, paintings, photographs, and films open to all citizens at the click of a mouse via one portal – this dream of a European Digital Library could become reality this autumn. However, further efforts by the EU Member States are needed, said the Commission today in a new Communication on
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Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008)
We are delighted to announce that the Companion to Digital Literary Studies (2008) is now freely available online at at <http://www.digitalhumanities.org/companion/DLS/>. The online version of the text is hosted by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations and is made freely available through the generosity of our publisher, Blackwell Publishing. With all best wishes, Susan Schreibman
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Under the Southern Cross
The Weston Room, Maughan Library & Information Services Centre, Chancery Lane Tuesday 9 September – Saturday 13 December 2008 9.30-17.00, Monday to Saturday >From classical antiquity Europeans speculated on the existence of a continent in the Southern Hemisphere and imagined what it might contain. The voyages of men like Abel Tasman in the seventeenth century
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Nature: Big Data
The journal Nature has just come out with its latest issue, which includes a special section on “Big Data” — the flood of scientific data and its implications for science and for scholarly communication. It includes several superb articles, and a brief commentary that I’ve written on data curation issues. Readers interested in cyberinfrastructure, e-science