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  • Roberto Busa dies aged 97

    There are perhaps not many fields in the humanities that can trace their roots to certain individuals, collaborations, and innovative new approaches. But within the application of computing to humanities problems one name looms large. Roberto Busa, one of the pioneers of humanities computing, died in Italy on Tuesday (August 9, 2011). Roberto Busa is…

  • Frontiers in Spatial Humanities (Video)

    Frontiers in Spatial Humanities from Scholars’ Lab on Vimeo. Bethany Nowvisky talks in ‘the final event of our NEH-funded Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. The Scholars’ Lab/NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship was held at the University of Virginia Library May 25-27, 2010 and concluded with a set of two-minute, three-slide lightning talks by Institute…

  • Review: Digital Humanities 2011, Stanford

    Digital Humanities Conference, Stanford University, June 2011 Conal Tuohy and myself recently attended the Digital Humanities conference 2011 at Stanford University in California (19-22 June). In its 23rd year, the conference is the peak conference for the application of computing to humanities research with the numerous digital humanities associations holding their annual general meetings at…

  • Digital classics

    Here is a interview with Gabriel Bodard of King’s College London (my old drinking buddy) by Elton Barker (one of my new drinking buddies). Gabriel is particulary good at articulating where computing fits within classical studies. Well worth a look…

  • Digital humanities video showcase

    Stefan Sinclair produced these videos for the recent Centrenet/CNHI meeting that I attended at the Jackman Institute at the University of Toronto. There are a whole bunch of them and they give a pretty good outline of some of the work in the field. I have embedded one here and links to the rest can…