Author: Craig
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Virtual Research Environments: VRE Programme Phases 2 & 3
A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) enables a group of researchers, often across several institutions, to work collaboratively by forming a social structure and sharing resources over the internet. According to Michael Fraser, University of Oxford, ‘a VRE comprises a set of online tools and other network resources and technologies interoperating with each other to facilitate…
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Are you wired or tired? How to ease information overload
Information overload is an all too familiar modern malady, and we can’t all have a personal assistant on hand to help out. But strategies do exist to help people deal with today’s constant information barrage, as the recent study ‘Being wired or being tired’ explains. To help combat everything from interruptive texts, IM and status…
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XMod: A TEI based publication application (from CCH)
xMod is a desktop application which can transform a repository of XML into a completely finished website. The entire process can be setup and run to produce a basic website very quickly assuming some prerequisites: A set of valid XML files. These would normally comply with a TEI DTD. Some basic configuration. xMod needs to…
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AHDS Guides to Good Practice
These guides are a little out of date as the AHDS is no longer, but they do respresent a fantastic resource. The AHDS publishes a series of Guides providing the arts and humanities research and teaching communities with practical instruction in applying recognised standards and good practice to the creation and use of digital resources.…
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Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2008 (blog)
The blog for the recent DRHA conference in available here (link)
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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…