Category: digital humanities
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Virtual Research Environments: VRE Programme Phases 2 & 3
A Virtual Research Environment (VRE) enables a group of researchers, often across several institutions, to work collaboratively by forming a social structure and sharing resources over the internet. According to Michael Fraser, University of Oxford, ‘a VRE comprises a set of online tools and other network resources and technologies interoperating with each other to facilitate…
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XMod: A TEI based publication application (from CCH)
xMod is a desktop application which can transform a repository of XML into a completely finished website. The entire process can be setup and run to produce a basic website very quickly assuming some prerequisites: A set of valid XML files. These would normally comply with a TEI DTD. Some basic configuration. xMod needs to…
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AHDS Guides to Good Practice
These guides are a little out of date as the AHDS is no longer, but they do respresent a fantastic resource. The AHDS publishes a series of Guides providing the arts and humanities research and teaching communities with practical instruction in applying recognised standards and good practice to the creation and use of digital resources.…
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Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2008 (blog)
The blog for the recent DRHA conference in available here (link)
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The Economic and Social Data Service (UK)
The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) is a national data service providing access and support for an extensive range of key economic and social data, both quantitative and qualitative, spanning many disciplines and themes. ESDS provides an integrated service offering enhanced support for the secondary use of data across the research, learning and teaching…
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Scholarship in the Digital Age (Bibliography)
A usuful resource from Christine Borgman’s book (bibliography…link) “Scholars in all fields now have access to an unprecedented wealth of online information, tools, and services. The Internet lies at the core of an information infrastructure for distributed, data-intensive, and collaborative research. Although much attention has been paid to the new technologies making this possible, from…