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Created: 22 June 2015
As part of the Europeana Cloud project, a team from Work Package 1 are exploring different topics and assessing the current research requirements and available tools and resources for that topic. This will help Europeana assess the feasibility of aggregating data in this area
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Created: 17 June 2015
By using the broad term of “Digital Humanities” we tend to forget the diversity of disciplines it covers. What about the “Medical Humanities”
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Created: 2 June 2015
Following the successful call for researchers making use of historic newspapers, a workshop was held on May 13 at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. It aimed to understand the precise workflows and methodologies researchers use, shape the kind of tools that can be built to them with these workflow and define how data are made available for re-use.
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Created: 27 May 2015
Europeana Research aims to support humanities research on the digitised content of Europe’s galleries, museums, libraries and archives by addressing issues such as licensing, interoperability and access.
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Created: 14 May 2015
One of the earlier cross-disciplinary calls in the EU’s H2020 programme was for the Virtual Research Environment call (eInfra-9)
The deadline for proposals was earlier this year. According to the EU website, over 90 proposals were received. Given that 40m Euros was available, and that proposals were supposed to request between 2 and 8 million Euros, this means that around 8 proposals will get funding.
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Created: 11 May 2015
Like explorers cutting through the jungle, so digital humanists continue to slice through swathes of large sources of data, the so called 'big data'.
Some resources are already fully open online, in all sense of the words. The recent publication of transcribed data from The Text Creation Partnership on early English language texts is a great example.
But many mass digitisation datasets are not quite as open, meaning they cannot be used in for text and data mining.
