Category Archives: Standards

Internet Archaeology 24: Dealing with Legacy Data

Posted on 2008-07-08 by Gabriel Bodard

Internet Archaeology announces issue 24, a themed issue dedicated to: “Dealing with Legacy Data” edited by Pim Allison. In the Mediterranean region particularly, but by no means not exclusively, there exist large datasets from previous excavations, published and unpublished, whose … Continue reading →

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EpiDoc Summer School, July 14th-18th, 2008

Posted on 2008-04-23 by Gabriel Bodard

The Centre for Computing in the Humanties, Kings College London, is again offering an EpiDoc Summer School, on July 14th-18th, 2008. The training is designed for epigraphers or papyrologists (or related text editors such as numismatists, sigillographers, etc.) who would … Continue reading →

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Report on NEH Workshop “Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions”

Posted on 2008-04-04 by dporter

The official report on the NEH Workshop “Supporting Digital Scholarly Editions”, held on January 14, has been released and is available in PDF form: http://www.virginiafoundation.org/NEH%20Workshop%20Report%20FINAL-3.pdf Attendees included representatives from funding agencies and university presses, historians, just one or two literary … Continue reading →

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Rieger, Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization

Posted on 2008-03-02 by Gabriel Bodard

CLIR (the Council on Library and Information Resources in DC) have published in PDF the text of a white paper by Oya Rieger titled ‘Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization‘. She discusses large-scale digitization initiatives such as Google Books, … Continue reading →

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Music in TEI SIG

Posted on 2008-02-10 by Gabriel Bodard

The TEI community have just set up a Special Interest Group for the encoding of music in XML (disclosure: I am one of the moderators). I forward the announcement below: A Special Interest Group for music encoding in TEI has … Continue reading →

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Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future (report)

Posted on 2008-01-20 by Gabriel Bodard

The British Library and JISC commissioned the Centre for Information Behaviour and the Evaluation of Research (CIBER) at UCL to produce a report on Information Behaviour of the Researcher of the Future. It’s well worth reading the full reportin PDF … Continue reading →

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Tutorial: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model

Posted on 2008-01-15 by Tom Elliott

Noted by way of JISC-REPOSITORIES: DCC Tutorial: The CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model – A New Standard for Knowledge Sharing January 29 2008 University of Glasgow The DCC and FORTH are delighted to announce that they will be delivering a joint … Continue reading →

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Long-term data preservation

Posted on 2007-12-14 by Gabriel Bodard

There was an article in New Scientist last week on plans for permanent data preservation for the scientific data. The argument in the sciences seems to be that all data should be preserved, as some of it will be from … Continue reading →

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In mediis tutissimus ibis

Posted on 2007-09-14 by scaife

Even if it’s true that “People just want to see what’s real,” surely there are times when one needs to step back from technology’s bleeding edge.

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Promise and challenge: augmenting places with sources

Posted on 2007-06-19 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has some very interesting things to say about “the widespread digitization of historical sources” and — near and dear to my heart — “augmenting places with sources”: William J. Turkel, “Seeing There,” Digital History Hacks, 18 June 2007 … Continue reading →

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Withdrawal of AHDS Funding

Posted on 2007-06-02 by Gabriel Bodard

Following the recent public announcement that the UK’s AHRC intends to withdraw funding from the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the following petition has been set up at the British Government’s website. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/AHDSfunding/ On 11 May 2007, Professor Phillip Esler, … Continue reading →

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Google Earth with Audio

Posted on 2007-05-13 by Gabriel Bodard

This interesting post over at New Scientist Tech: Bernie Krause has spent 40 years collecting over 3500 hours of sound recordings from all over the world, including bird and whale song and the crackle of melting glaciers. His company, Wild … Continue reading →

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Stop teaching historians to use computers!

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has started what looks to be an important and potentially influential thread on the nexus of history and the digital. His opening salvo: Teaching history students how to use computers was a really good idea in the early … Continue reading →

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International Network of Digital Humanities Centers

Posted on 2007-04-24 by Tom Elliott

Making the rounds on various lists this morning is a call for participation in “an international network of digital humanities centers.” Julia Flanders et al. write: If you represent something that you would consider a digital humanities center, anywhere in … Continue reading →

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Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo support GeoRSS

Posted on 2007-04-06 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot: This week, Microsoft announced their new Live Maps, in addition to supporting Firefox on Windows for 3D, now supports the GeoRSS standard. They join Google which recently announced the support of GeoRSS and KML mapping in their … Continue reading →

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