Category: digital humanities
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The Virtual Museum of the Pacific: A Semantic Web-based Content Management System
The Virtual Museum of the Pacific (VMP) is a Rich Internet Application with a Web Services architecture used to manage and navigate 400 objects from the Australian Museum’s (http://www.austmus.gov.au/) Pacific Island collections. This project tests a new means of facilitating access for Indigenous people and researchers to museum-based digital collections whose artefacts are physically distributed…
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Report on the working group on Virtual Reseach Communities
This report from the OSI (Office of Science and Innovatuion) e-Infrastructure Steering Group may be of interest to punters (link).
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DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop
DCC Digital Curation 101 Workshop 10-12 March 2009 London The majority of scientific research is carried out through short-term, funded projects. Accordingly, principle investigators and researchers must constantly be on the lookout for new funding opportunities to continue their research activity. This, coupled with often limited staffing resources, has meant that data management and curation…
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Digital Humanities Observatory Dublin Lecture
The DHO announces an upcoming presentation by DHO Metadata Manager Dot Porter entitled ‘Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch’. The lecture is presented as part of the Culture and Technology Seminar Series organized by Humanities Advanced Technology And Information Institute (HATII) at the University of Glasgow, and will be simultaneously webcast. Ms. Porter…
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A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts:
AHeSSC is organizing a roadshow about e-infrastructure at King’s on 30 January. See below for more details and the programme. It’s free to come along and there will be lunch. To register go to the roadshow website: www.jisc.ac.uk/kingsroadshow. =============== A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts: Using complex digital resources across disciplines’…
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What is Geoparser?
The GeoParser demonstrator is a tool that allows users to upload web pages, text files, metadata records, xml etc., which can then be parsed for geographical names. These are then checked against GeoCrossWalk to obtain explicit geographical coordinates for the location referred to , in order to “geo-tag” the uploaded document. In other words, it…