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Castillos y Batallas

by Filipe Penicheiro Jan 19, 2012 Web Readings Leave a comment

Castles are one of the most easily identifiable symbols of  Middle Ages. Even today, castles appeal to a variety of people, arousing curiosity and wonder. The Iberian Peninsula has many different types of these constructions. The Diputacion Provincial de Jaen created a interesting website where we can explore some of them and their historical context. Take a closer look at http://www.castillosybatallas.com

Web Readings Weekly Roundup (3rd January)

by paulasimoes Jan 3, 2012 News Leave a comment

• Mobile Historical

• The Old Order Changeth by Stanley Fish
• Why digital humanities isn’t actually “the next thing in literary studies” by Ted Underwood
• Literary studies’ digital humanities future by Alex Reid

Web Readings Weekly Roundup (20th December)

by paulasimoes Dec 20, 2011 News Leave a comment

• Critical Elements of Web Culture Scholars Should Understand by Dan Cohen
• Digitisation Studio Setup by Melissa Terras
• What no one tells you about the digital humanities by Ted Underwood
• Humanities in a Digital Age Symposium podcast
• SOPA and Invention in Cultural Heritage Informatics by Rachael Hodder

Web Readings Weekly Roundup (13th December)

by paulasimoes Dec 14, 2011 News Leave a comment

• Evaluating Digital Scholarship – Free section of Profession 2011, a MLA Journal
• Innovative GIS Projects in the Humanities by Amanda Rybin

• Digital Scholarship Publication Activity in 2011
• Is free inevitable in scholarly communication? The economics of open access by Caroline Sutton

Web Readings Weekly Roundup (6th December)

by paulasimoes Dec 6, 2011 News Leave a comment

• Panel on the Future of Digital Publishing [Video] by Dan Cohen
• Startups and the Digital Humanities by Lisa Spiro
• Research Infrastructures in the Humanities [Report from European Science Foundation]
• The Problem of the Yellow Milkmaid A Business Model Perspective on Open Metadata [Europeana White Paper]

Creative Cultural Heritage

by paulasimoes Nov 30, 2011 News Leave a comment

Creative Cultural Heritage (CreativeCH), funded under the Seventh Framework Programm from European Commission, “will promote cooperation and mutual innovation among organisations of Science & Technology (S&T), Cultural Heritage (CH) and Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI), and highlight the contribution of such cooperation and innovations to vital European economic, social and cultural objectives.” [1]

The international project will include, at regional level, a series of showcases, which will demonstrate how the cooperation of S&T, CH and CCI organisations “can help overcome barriers in the access to, and understanding of, cultural heritage.” [1]

At European level, the project will promote the sharing of knowledge and experiences with “an open peer-learning network, a series of workshops at major European events, and a virtual forum for students and practitioners“. [1]

CreativeCH began in October and it will run until September of 2014. EuroMACHS’ blog will be following further developments and soon will have more information on the project.

[1] – From EU website

Web Readings Weekly Roundup (29th November)

by paulasimoes Nov 29, 2011 News Leave a comment

• Stats and the Digital Humanities by Melissa Terras
• DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Winter 2011
• Google Scholar Citations Open To All
• What Is Publishing? A Report from THATCamp Publishing

Games and Mobile Learning

by Filipe Penicheiro Nov 23, 2011 Call for papers, Events Leave a comment

 
The meeting “Games and mobile learning” will be held at University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, the 26th October 2012. Paper submission is open until 31 May 2012. For more information, please visit http://webs.ie.uminho.pt/encontro.jml/

Web Readings Weekly Roundup (22th November)

by paulasimoes Nov 22, 2011 News Leave a comment

• Digitalkoot - Electrifying our cultural heritage

• Part 1: The Wisdom of Crowds(ourcing) 

• Crowdsourcing cultural heritage: UCL’s Transcribe Bentham project by Melissa Terras [presentation]
• Crowdsourcing in the Cultural Heritage Domain: Opportunities and Challenges by Oomen, J. & Arroyo, L. [PDF]
• AddressingHistory: challenges in crowdsourcing Edinburgh’s past [Presentation]

Web Readings Weekly Roundup (14th November)

by paulasimoes Nov 15, 2011 News Leave a comment

• ViewShare Interfaces to Our Heritage

• Siri? How Do I Fix Academic Publishing?

• The CUNY Digital Humanities Resource Guide

• Stanford’s latest iPhone and iPad apps course now free to the world on iTunes U
• iWrite Assistant [ProfHacker Column]