Monthly Archives: December 2010
Connected Histories and Data Mining: New Tools for the Digital Humanities
Bob Shoemaker (Professor of Eighteenth-Century British History, University of Sheffield), one of the primary academics behind the Old Bailey on-line archive (http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/), recently came to address the Open University’s Digital Humanities seminar (22 November 2010). Having been set up with … Continue reading
Filling in some Gaps in GAP
Sometimes there’s nothing like a little face-to-face time to get a project going, even one that’s dealing predominantly with on-line material and involving collaborators from around the globe. So last week I flew to the UK to work first with … Continue reading
Talking Digital Infrastructure @ the ESF, Strasbourg
Back at the end of October I attended a two-day workshop put on by the European Science Foundation (yes, Humanities research counts as Science in the European Union). The Workshop addressed the issue of Research Communities and Infrastructures in the … Continue reading
Google Ancient Places 