Category: digital humanities
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A Summer of Digital Humanities Love
I am about to leave soon to do my annual pilgrimage to the Digital Humanities conference, this time held in Hamburg, Germany. I will also attend the UK’s Digital Humanities Summer Institute at Oxford. I am looking forward to it, although I still need help with the key things I want to say in my…
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William Noel: Revealing the lost codex of Archimedes
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Political Issue Analysis System
The report from the project is available (here). And have fun with the prototype (click on the image below). The Internet is recognised as a vital component of our political information systems. Although extensively used by governments and civil society groups, its effects on political processes, particularly deliberative political processes, remain relatively unknown. Emerging research…
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Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Review
The newly formed Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) held its inaugural conference Digital Humanities Australasia: Building, Mapping, Connecting in Canberra, 26-30 March 2012. The event was the first major conference of its type in Australia, bringing together some of the leading figures in the digital humanities internationally and showcasing some innovative new research in…
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Another vision?
Suppose there is to be another so-called broader vision of ‘computers in the humanities’ at this stage of development. In that case, there needs to be much more work done in terms of ‘research into research’ (i.e. especially into humanities research practices). The practical and urgent problems of science require many talented people to address…
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eResearch and Digital Humanities: a broader vision?
I have been having many conversations with people of late around the boundaries eResearch and Digital Humanities. I have received many divergent and exciting responses from researchers and professionals working in various ways with computing in the humanities. There does tend to be little agreement about certain aspects of the landscape; many researchers have discovered…