• Data-Intensive Research: how should we improve our ability to use data

    Today there is a growing abundance of data often in large-scale collections or with great complexity. It is pertinent to every pressing strategic challenge, to the deep questions that research addresses and the urgent application sciences. A great deal of thought is needed to improve our capabilities to use data well in a wide variety…

  • Digital Classicist

    Call for Presentations The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with support from the British Library, in Summer 2010 on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. We are especially interested in work that…

  • DHO Summer School 28 June – 2 July 2010, Trinity College, Dublin

    Registration is now open for the 2010 Summer School. Please see the registration page for further details. The Digital Humanities Observatory in conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative is pleased to offer the DHO Summer School 2010. It will bring together 60 Irish and International humanities scholars undertaking digital projects in diverse areas to…

  • SPARC Authors Addendum

    If you have written an academic paper and wish to publish it in a journal, you are often asked to sign away your rights to that journal so that it may not be distributed in any other form. The SPARC Authors Addendum (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is one way to distribute your…

  • TED Talks: How to make the data look interesting…

    You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.”

  • Scientists dispute climate sceptic’s claim that US weather data is useless

    An interesting twist on the Climate Change debate. When data is made public, so too is the basis in which this data was collected. Data is part of a scientific argument; it isn’t ‘absolute truth’. It appeared to have shaken the credibility of one of the most important global warming data sets in the world.…