• Chair and Head of Department, Department of Digital Humanities, Centre for Computing in the Humanities

    (The Digital Humanities will be very sad to see Harold Short retire. What a wonderful contribution Harold has made to the field; especially in terms of his leadership of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities…a beacon in the broader humanities). The Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), King’s College London is looking for…

  • What is eResearch in the Arts and Humanities

    This is the start of a ‘white paper’ on eResearch in the Arts and Humanities. Comments are most welcome (I do admittedly rely a little too much on Susan Hockey’s wonderful history of Digital Humanities in ‘A Companion to Digital Humanities).1 …by its very nature, humanities computing has had to embrace “the two cultures”, to…

  • That Camp at Digital Humanities 2010

    That Camp, is a ‘user generated’ conference focussing upon the tools, methods, and theoretical issues within the Digital Humanities. It originates from the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US and has been held in a number of other locations. ‘That Camp’ London to be help immediately before the…

  • Paul Walk from the UK’s UKOLN – Engaging developers, supporting innovation

    Paul Walk – Engaging developers, supporting innovation from VeRSI on Vimeo.

  • Victorian eResearch Review

    The State Government of Victoria (Australia) has invested a reasonable sum in eResearch activities here in Victoria over recent years. The Government is undertaking a review; the discussion paper is available online with 36 Key Questions (and some of them are really hard like ‘how can the progress and uptake of eResearch be measured’. The…

  • Text Encoding in the Digital Humanities

    I was recently looking for a good article on Text Encoding in the Humanities and found this article written by Allen H Renear. It is a good introduction to Text Encoding and posits a excellent argument on why it is important. This chapter will provide a general orientation to some of the historical and theoretical…