Category: humanities computing
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Manuscript account of Newton’s apple made public
The manuscript is one of a number published online to mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, and can be accessed at www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages (from the Age)
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TEI by example
The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) of King’s College London, and the Department of Information Studies of University College London, are pleased to announce that funding has been secured to develop the online resource “TEI…
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Digital Humanities in India
I am not sure if there is a defined ‘Digital Humanities’ field in India (where I am at the moment), but there is activity occurring in numerous places. The Library Science is one area to find Digital Humanities activities in India as per this International Conference on Digital Libraries in New Delhi early in 2010.…
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Between two cultures
A recent post I placed on Humanist, one of the most essential academic initiatives in the Digital Humanities run by Professor Willard McCarty of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London. In this post, I hijacked the subject somewhat, but this needed to be said because, as I see it, the…
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Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize
The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Now in its inaugural year, the prize will be given every three years to honour an outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the…
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What to do with 30 million books?
(Posted to that wonderful Digital Humanities list, Humanist). Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:22:57 +0100 From: Jockers Matthew <mjockers@stanford.edu> Subject: Possible Text Mining Opportunity at Stanford Friends, As I’m sure many of you already know, Stanford has been closely involved with Google’s book scanning project, and we (Stanford) are currently preparing a proposal for the…