Tag Archives: digital_humanities

Research Databases in the Humanities

I went to the Research Databases in the Humanities workshop, organised by Sudamih, which was an excellent afternoon and time well spent. An Oxford heavy event, there were a number of interesting directions that came out of the afternoon. Firstly James Wilson, project manager of Sudamih at Oxford University Computing Services, outlined the Database as […]

January 23, 2011 – 12:11 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in Information Retrieval | Tagged , , | Comments (2)

Digital Humanities and building data sets

Rob Myers reposted this New York Times link on the Open Knowledge Foundation discussion list about Digital Humanities and its growth. It mentions the Mapping the Republic of Letters project (unfortunately it does not appear to be open) and its linking together of the centres of letter production. Last night I managed to build the […]

November 18, 2010 – 8:22 pm | By iain_emsley | Posted in projects, Text Mining | Tagged , | Comments (0)