Category: digital humanities
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Institutional repositories and data re-use for the humanities
(originally written for Arts-humanities.net) Institutional repositories have become increasing important systems to store the rising amount of data produced by researchers. An institutional repository may be university wide or subject specific. They may serve the needs of a particular institution, a group of institutions, a nation, or an entire region. Examples include the UK’s Archaeological…
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Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the arts and humanities
The mechanisms for the evaluation and peer review of the traditional print outputs of scholarly research in the arts and humanities are well established, but no equivalent exists for assessing the value of digital resources and of the scholarly work which leads to their creation. This project proposes to establish a framework for evaluating the…
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What is BoB: Box of Broadcast?
Bob or Box of Broadcast is being launched at the JISC conference in Edinburgh this week. Here is a blurb from the JISC press release. the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC) will be launching BoB – Box of Broadcast. Similar to the BBC’s iPlayer, it will make broadcast and video content available indefinitely…
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A day in the life of the Digital Humanities
This is the entry I wrote for the ethnographic study yesterday on the day in the life of the Digital Humanities. I am not sure it was a typical day; except all the reflection about the nature of the Digital Humanities. That is typical for me (link). Nanook of the North; a famous (but discreited)…
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How do you define Humanities Computing / Digital Humanities?
The digital humanities is a set of beliefs, theories, practices, methods, and artifacts associated with the use of digital technologies to support, extend, and transform traditional humanistic fields. I follow Erwin Panofsky’s definition of the humanities as those disciplines concerned with interpreting the “records left by man.” (Sexism not intended.) Among the specific assemblage of…