Category: digitisation
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New Book: Digital Scholarship
A interesting new book on Digital Scholarship was released in December called ‘Digital Scholarship’; edited by Marta Mestrovic Deyrup. I haven’t ordered, read, and reviewed this book as yet (it doesn’t come cheap at 57 pounds). What I see as one of the grand challenges of digital resources and scholarship is developing an explicit understanding…
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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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BUND: The British Universities Newsreel Database
The British Universities Newsreel Database (BUND) is another innovative service offered by the British Universities Film and Video Council (BUFVC). Other important projects include BoB (Box of Broadcasts) and NFO (Newsfilm Online). The later contains more than 3000 hours of news stories available online (partly funded by JISC and available to subscribing Universities). The BUND…
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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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JISC Digitisation Projects
Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching and research The JISC Digitisation programme is founded upon the need to build significant e-resources from some of the UK’s greatest collections in a wide variety of formats – sound, images, journals, moving pictures, newspapers and much else. Using the latest technology available, the projects provide the…