Tag: humanities computing
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The Digging into Data Challenge: What to do with one million books?
This is a opportune international development for those in the Digital Humanities. I am not aware of any involvement from King’s, but would be interested to hear from any other UK institutions who plan to compete! The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information…
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The Milkbar Manifesto
This is a manifesto that I wrote in 1999 to accompany my work Milkbar.com.au (as an angrier man… grrrr). I still believe in most of these things, especially the points that I have highlighted. Passive technological determinism is so engrained in the popular imagination that an entire professional class (many employed in universities ) manipulate…
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CeRch Project Portfolio
The centre that I work at here at King’s has an increasing portfolio of projects; some have only recently started and other are either complete or at various stages of completion. Most of the project are digital infrastructure related; some are mass-digitisation projects and a couple are management of digital content related. The projects vary…
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JISC Digitisation projects
JISC (the Joint Information Services Committee) fund a number of digitisation projects with content that spans nearly five centuries of British history. Some notable examples include British Newspapers 1620-1900 and the 19th Century Pamphlets Online. The manifold importance of digitisation is that the records are made easily accessible to scholars and the general public, and…
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Mapping the worlds photos
This article from David Crandall et.al at Cornell University may be of interest. An historian asked me the other day what were the majore concerns of the Digital Humanities. I tried to explain that once there is a lot of data; like all the books in the 19th Century being in digital form, or all…
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CeRch awarded 1.3 Million Pounds in JISC funding
(A VRE is a Virtual Research Environment…like a blackboard, well not really) The following press release is from the Centre that I work within at King’s College; London. A lot of these projects won’t be of that much interest to researchers (as they are infrastructure grants, not research), however the TEXTvre project may be of…