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New on ICTGuides
2008-03-20 17:15:00 ICT Guides is a service offered by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) at King’s College, London (soon to be the Centre for eResearch CeRch). It seeks to promote the use of ICTs in research and learning through cataloging digital arts and humanities projects along with the tools and methods they employed. A number of ...
Web Curator Tool 1.3.0
2008-02-29 18:55:00 Web Curator Tool version 1.3.0 has just been released. Web Curator Tool is free open source software for ‘web harvesting’ (aka ’site ripping’), and is provided by the National Library of New Zealand and the British Library. It differs from common free desktop software for archiving websites ? such as HTTrack+ProxyHTTrack ? because it integrates ...
Single, likes Sudoku*
2008-01-18 11:04:00 This morning (following a news item in the Guardian’s technology supplement I read on the train home yesterday) I’ve been playing with the latest ‘Web 2.0′ service to cause a stir - Spock. It’s a kind of shotgun marriage of a specific web search - for people (Spock reckons about a third of all searches ...
Electronic Visualisation in the Arts
2007-12-13 12:57:00 EVA London 2008 is calling for papers. The conference, co-sponsored by the Computer Arts Society is looking for offers of paper in subjects including: visualising ideas and concepts in museums and galleries, digital arts, sound, music, film and animation, 2D and 3D imaging, European projects, the European Digital Library, social media for museums, heritage and fine art ...
Leonardo and Computer Drawing
2007-10-11 12:27:00 Wednesday 24 October 2007, 5:00pm, Middlesex University, Cat Hill, Barnet. Ever wondered what Leonardo would have made of today?s technologies? Professor Clive Richards, Associate Dean of Coventry School of Art will discuss the ingenious ways in which Leonardo used drawing to solve information design problems, and suggest that Computer Drawing systems would benefit from some ...
Digital Arts & Humanities
2007-09-21 09:32:00 The Digital Arts & Humanities: discover and discuss digital research website was launched at a reception at the ‘Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities and Arts’ (DRHA07) conference. From the launch press release: “Digital Arts & Humanities is a place to share and discuss ideas, promote your research and discover the digital arts ...
What is ICT Guides?
2007-09-18 16:10:00 ICT Guides is a JISC funded initiative housed at King?s College in London. The purpose of ICT Guides is to provide a focal point for new and established researchers in the digital arts and humanities to find out about digital projects and the methods and tools they employed. In listing digital arts and humanities projects ...
After the AHDS?
2007-09-18 13:53:00 A panel discussion at the opening of the recent Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts (DRHA) conference at Dartington College of the Arts posed the question what happens after the end of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS); is this the end of national support? The Arts and Humanities Data Service is a national ...
DHQ
2007-09-18 11:54:00 The second issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly is now available online. DHQ (reviewed in Intute) is a freely available, peer-reviewed electronic journal which focuses on humanities computing and computational linguistics and literature studies, co-publishing with the print journal LLC (also reviewed in Intute). In the press release for this issue the editors explain that “Some ...
Blogumenta
2007-06-13 12:02:00 An interesting looking project in Facebook/in the “rather primitive” [sic] blogosphere, aiming to curate in social networking spaces an exhibition to rival Kassel’s once-every-four-years Documenta. Users can join the Blogumenta group in Facebook and post their own art works. It seems an interesting take on curating work in these kind of spaces (which is at ...
Bye Bye Blackboard?
2007-06-05 20:57:00 Bye Bye Blackboard is the online record of a creative experiment that may appeal to many lecturers who, as the academic year draws to a close, feel they have become all too familar with the taste of chalk-dust. In 2005 the Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, invited notable people to respond to one ...
AHRC ICT Programme: Update
2007-05-17 13:17:00 The AHRC’s ICT Programme is inviting interested arts and humanites researchers to take a look, and comment on, its updated website, which reflects the programme’s focus until its conclusion in October 2008.
EpiDoc Summer School, 11-15 June, 2007
2007-05-16 13:24:00 Over the last few years an international group of scholars has been developing a set of conventions for marking up ancient documents in electronic form; since we started with inscriptions, it is known as EpiDoc, but the principles are being applied to papyri and coins, and the aim is to produce conventions consistent for those ... |
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