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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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A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts:
AHeSSC is organizing a roadshow about e-infrastructure at King’s on 30 January. See below for more details and the programme. It’s free to come along and there will be lunch. To register go to the roadshow website: www.jisc.ac.uk/kingsroadshow. =============== A roadshow on e-infrastructure, ‘From motion capture to ancient manuscripts: Using complex digital resources across disciplines’…
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Arts Birthday (and Craig’s too!)
It is my birthday next weekend. And i am going to Vienna to celebrate as it is also ‘Arts Birthday‘ . Kunst Radio is holding a party in Hainsburg near Vienna where my good friend Andrew Garton will be playing a 100 year old electronic instrument. Art is 1,000, 0045 years old. I was born…
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SENSORIUM RE-CONNECTED by Andrew Garton
From 18 August through to 26 September 97, ABC Classic FM’s The Listening Room presented Sensorium Connect / Body Morph, a generative composition by composer Andrew Garton comprising of sounds sampled from performances by Stelarc. On 11 January 2009 KunstRadio will broadcast an entirely new version of this work. Sensorium Re-Connect commemorates the work of…
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The Death of Mr Practical: The Practical man and Globalisation
This is a polemical article I wrote in 1995 and published on my blog in 2003. In reflection there is perhaps no such thing as ‘practicality’ (well there is; but it is also not value neutral). Practicality can be a form of ‘non-thinking’; it is a thing that we do without understanding the context that…
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What is Geoparser?
The GeoParser demonstrator is a tool that allows users to upload web pages, text files, metadata records, xml etc., which can then be parsed for geographical names. These are then checked against GeoCrossWalk to obtain explicit geographical coordinates for the location referred to , in order to “geo-tag” the uploaded document. In other words, it…
