Category: digital humanities
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What is the National Centre for Text Mining?
The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) is the first publicly-funded text mining centre in the world. We provide text mining services in response to the requirements of the UK academic community. NaCTeM is operated by the University of Manchester with close collaboration with the University of Tokyo (link)
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Electronic Textual Centres Hub
At the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory we conduct original research, develop new ways of disseminating information, and foster the innovative adaptation of existing tools. Our cross-disciplinary work in the areas of data-harvesting, textual content analysis, and document encoding puts us at the forefront of a global conversation about the future of communication (link).
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Project Bamboo
Bamboo is a multi-institutional, interdisciplinary, and inter-organizational effort that brings together researchers in arts and humanities, computer scientists, information scientists, librarians, and campus information technologists to tackle the question: How can we advance arts and humanities research through the development of shared technology services? (link)
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Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars (ICS, London)
Subject: Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars (ICS, London) **Digital Classicist Work-in-Progress seminars** Institute of Classical Studies Fridays at 16:30 in NG16, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU (June 20th, July 4th-18th seminars in room B3, Stewart House) (June 27th seminar room 218, Chadwick Bdg, UCL, Gower Street) **ALL WELCOME** 6 June (NG16) Elaine Matthews and…
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May 1 and Online Academic Labour
Dear Humanist, This project from a student at MIT (User Labor Markup Language (ULML)is pertinent given that today is May 1. And I find the question of the fair and productive use of labour online, including academic labour, one of the most interesting at the moment. For instance ‘My Experiment, a project from the Science…
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Old Bailey opens its unseen files
The long arm of the law now stretches across time: from tomorrow, the transcripts of every trial heard at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 can be read online, free of charge. The records of more than 210,000 criminal trials held from shortly after the Great Fire of London until just before the Great…