The text of Domesday Book is notoriously ambiguous, its array of social and economic statistics hitherto inaccessible, and the majority of individuals and many places unidentified. This electronic edition aims to make Domesday Book both more accessible and more intelligible by presenting its contents in a variety of forms: a translation, databases of names, places…

The next meeting of the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship will be on Thursday 21 February 2008, at 17:30 – 19:00 in room ST275 (Stewart House), as follows: Speakers: Andrew Prescott ‘Digital Manuscripts: Retrospect and Prospects’ Abstract: It is only thirteen years since the first digital images of medieval manuscripts were made available…

This multi-disciplinary, international conference on e-Research will be held at the University of Oxford from 11-13 September 2008. It is being organized by a consortium of research projects in association with the journal Information Communication and Society (iCS). The Oxford e-Research Conference 08 seeks to stimulate and inform multi-disciplinary research on the development, use and…

ON THE day Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to the stolen generations, Christine Satchell updated her Facebook status to “is sorry” like thousands of other Australians. The small virtual gesture made her position on the sorry debate loud and clear to her online friends. “I think it helped affirm it in myself and also showed…

Although Bill Gates famously remarked, ‘The paper-based book, magazine, or newspaper still has a lot of advantages over its digital counterpart’ (Gates 1996: 130), the digital text is becoming increasingly important in the arts and humanities communities. The arts and humanities have long enjoyed a close relationship with the library and information science community, to…

Ralph Schroeder from the Oxford Internet Institute was in Australia recently discussing his theoretical approaches to e science. Here is an article he wrote with Jenny Fry that maps some of the social science approaches to eScience The use of advanced high performance computing tools across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities has rapidly expanded…