3D facial reconstruction and visualization of ancient Egyptian mumies using spiral CT data
http://medialab.di.unipi.it/Project/Mummia/SIGGRAPH99/
The 3D facial reconstruction and visualization of ancient Egyptian mummies using spiral CT data website is a report on the work with reconstructing the face of a person living in Egypt more than two thousand years ago using the mummified remains of that person and modern computer technology. The mummified head in question is probably from the Ptolemaic era, around third to fourth century BC. The head has been scanned with Computer Tomography (CT) and the bone structure and what is left of the soft tissues have been reconstructed and modelled in the computer. Then a model for reconstructing the face has been applied that include mathematical modelling of soft tissues with some anthropological input. The site is very simple and not too appealing to the eye but the information, the formulas and the images are very instructive and this is a valuable resource for anyone interested in Egyptology, archaeology and the application of computers in the humanities.
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ACH (association for computers and the humanities) jobs
http://www.ach.org/jobs/
ACH (Association for Computers and the Humanities) Jobs is an online resource developed by the Association as a means to alert members of the humanities computing community to relevant job vacancies and to support members seeking a career in the field. The database, hosted at King's College London, permits the browsing of entries and provides a form for entering new posts. The Association's career support page provides the contact details of mentors within the ACH who are willing to provide advice to anyone seeking a position within humanities computing. The Jobs page also includes a report arising out of a panel discussion at the ACH/ALLC 2000 conference on the state of the job market for academic humanities computing.
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ACO*HUM : advanced computing in the humanities
http://gandalf.aksis.uib.no/AcoHum/
This is the website of the Advanced Computing in the Humanities (ACO*HUM) project; it contains information on the EU-funded thematic network which operated from 1996 to 2000 and that aimed to investigate the impact of information and communication technologies on humanities teaching and learning within higher education. The website includes: the full text of the book Computing in Humanities Education: A European Perspective / Koenraad de Smedt, Hazel Gardiner, et al. (eds.); the project's final dissemination report (1999-2000); and other publications and studies associated with the project. This resource also includes a translation of the report to Spanish, however it is not complete.
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Acquine : aesthetic quality inference engine
http://acquine.alipr.com/
Acquine (Aesthetic Quality Inference Engine) is an experimental online stylometrics service, which is the result of research by Dr. Ritendra Datta and assistants at Penn State University, partly funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. This free website offers an automatic algorithm-based assessment of the aesthetics of any natural colour photograph. Users can upload a photograph which is then evaluated via a score from 0 to 100. Dr. Ritendra Datta has since left Penn State University and is now working for Google. The website also has full details of the project, and links to three full-text academic papers detailing the patent-pending process behind the Acquine engine. This website will be of interest to those investigating computer-based aesthetic inference and ranking systems.
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AHDS acronym-buster
http://www.ahds.ac.uk/creating/acronyms.htm
The AHDS Acronym Buster decodes the acronyms of the institutions, organisations, projects and services associated within humanities computing. Drawing on the expertise and knowledge of AHDS staff, the list is updated every three months, keeping up to date with changes and innovations within the field. The list does not pretend to be exhaustive, but it does aim to cover every major current acronym within humanities computing, as well as many acronyms specific to particular subject fields. While its focus is on the UK, acronyms from continental Europe and the rest of the world are included where the acronyms are of international importance. This resource is no longer being updated; it was last updated on March 2008.
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AHDS case studies
http://ahds.ac.uk/creating/case-studies/
AHDS Case Studies is an online collection of case studies which provide examples of good practice in various digitisation projects, each illustrating a particular concept or theme that plays a part in the: creation; management; use; dissemination; or preservation of digital resources. The resources investigated are drawn from projects with a wide range of aims: some projects are capturing digital images for reference purposes; some are developing databases for research purposes; whilst others are developing resources for learning and teaching. These projects have taken place not only in universities, but in: museums; local councils; and heritage organisations. Some of the particular topics covered include: how to trace copyright holders and develop the appropriate licences; writing successful AHRC technical appendices; capturing high-quality images with a portable scanner; developing a database; using XML in texts; and project management issues. There are also some general case studies which provide an overview of how certain digitisation projects proceeded. The full range of subjects within the arts and humanities are covered in the series, running from archaeology to linguistics to theology. This page has not been updated since March 31st, 2008.
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AHDS information for BA applicants
http://ahds.ac.uk/ba/
AHDS Information for BA Applicants is an online source of help for those applying for grants to the British Academy in the context of creating or exploiting a digital resource. The webpages also provide help for those who are currently receiving funding from the BA. Those applying to the British Academy are obliged to contact the AHDS to discuss the intended standards and practices in their proposed projects, while all successful applicants who are developing a digital resource must offer a copy of their resource to the AHDS for long-term preservation. The Web pages provide background to the relationship between the AHDS and the BA, plus links to documents that those applying to the AHRB may well find helpful in terms of preparing their applications and planning the digital resource itself. This includes links to AHDS Case Studies, Guides to Good Practice as well as the related information for those applying to the Arts and Humanities Research Board. This page is no longer updated, and represents its state at 31st March 2008.
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AHRC ICT Methods Network
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/
AHRC ICT Methods Network is the website of a "national forum for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) for Arts and Humanities research" across the whole range of subjects covered by the AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council). It aims to: bring together a community of researchers interested in ICT for the arts and humanities; and to: promote; support; and develop the use of advanced ICT methods by means of: a programme of activities and publications; and by funding workshops, seminars and any other type of dissemination and training activity within the arts and humanities community which focus on ICT methods. Its website is detailed and informative, offering: information about past and forthcoming events and seminars of interest to anyone thinking about or already using advanced ICT methods in their research; working papers and case studies, together with project reports; and up-to-date news from the field. The site's Resources section is especially useful, featuring: podcasts and audio files from past expert seminars and workshops; a glossary of ICT terms relevant to the arts and humanities; and the ICT map, a guide to where to go, what to consult and what to use in order to achieve specific goals within Arts and Humanities ICT. The Methods Network is part of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) ICT Programme and hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London. Information about student bursaries (for named conference attendance) and the funding available from the Network for ICT Arts and Humanities-related activities is available in full from this site. Funding for the Methods Network ceased on 31st March 2008, and so this website will not be updated after this date, although it will still be maintained.
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AHRC ICT Methods Network : expert seminars
http://www.methodsnetwork.ac.uk/activities/seminars.html
AHRC ICT Methods Network : Expert Seminars is an online collection of information on a series of seminars held in 2005-6 to bring together specialists to share their knowledge and debate the advanced use of Information and Communication Technology in the arts and humanities. Seminars took place in the following subjects: Word Frequency and Keyword Extraction; Modern Methods for Musicology; Text Editing in a Digital Environment Expert Seminar; Virtual History and Archaeology. The website includes: each seminar's programme; paper abstracts; and a rapporteur's report.
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ALLC : association for literary and linguistic computing
http://www.allc.org/
ALLC, the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, aims to support the application of computing in the study of language and literature. Membership in the association is by subscription to its journal, Literary and Linguistic Computing (LLC). An annual conference is held by ALLC in collaboration with The Association for Computers in the Humanities. The ALLC site is clearly structured and includes information about the association, its members, and minutes from previous meetings; conferences, projects, events, and bursaries; publications (LLC, Humanist, Computing in the Humanities Working Papers); and links to related organisations, institutions and projects.
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American Museum of Natural History library : digital library project
http://library.amnh.org/diglib/
American Museum of Natural History Research Library : Digital Library Project is a collection of online resources digitised from the Museum's expedition collections and research projects. Included are: data and images; sound recordings; maps; and field notes. The first digital collection to be published is The American Museum Congo Expedition 1909-1915. Of great interest to the humanities computing community are the links to Internet resources on: digital imaging; metadata specifications; and best practice that are intended to help evaluate and assess how to proceed with a digital imaging project "and what steps to take to ensure its viability once it is created". The Library's own services and equipment are specified in detail, with photographs of some of the work of the team.
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Annotating image archives to support literary research
http://wiki.cs.cf.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/Sandbox/WorkshopAHRC
Arising from the AHRC-funded Database of Mid-Victorian Wood-Engraved Illustrations (DMVI) project, this wiki describes a two-day workshop bringing together researchers of nineteenth century literature and illustration with computer scientists with an interest in Semantic Web and CBIR technologies to better understand how user communities interpret image content and the potential for these communities to add value, in particular to the DMVI. Additionally, the final report to is available to download.
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Apertium
http://xixona.dlsi.ua.es/apertium-www/
This is the website of Apertium, a free software/open source machine translation platform. The website, available in more than ten different language versions provides general information about the Apertium platform and its developers; a test drive, where users are allowed to evaluate the software on line before installation; a list to related software (including links); it also promotes contact with developers and others users through a discussion forum; a mailing list and a RSS news feed. The software which has been developed with funding from the Spanish government and the government of Catalonia at the University of Alicante (Universitat d'Alacant) has been released under the terms of GNU General Public License.
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Appia project
http://www.kvl.cch.kcl.ac.uk/appia.html
This website describes the AHRC-funded Appia project, which used 3D visualisation technology to recreate the designs of scenographer Adolphe Appia. Appia was an important innovator in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century theatre, with his use of performance space, scenography and lighting to reflect and change the performance's mood. This has led to him being regarded as a "prophet of the modern theatre". The website details the research, explaining the steps taken to model not just Appia's set designs but his unique and intricate lighting, within a recreated Festspielhaus theatre at Hellerau (creater by the THEATRON Project) that was the setting for many of his key works, in particular the 1913 performance of Gluck's Orpheus and Eurydice. The reconstructions were further tested with virtual performances, using ChromaKey and motion capture (made possible by additional grants from the HEFCE SRIF funding programme). Data from the project, including the visualisations themselves, has been deposited for preservation at AHDS Performing Arts, and, although the project's outputs (such as conferences and papers) are listed, the visualisations are not presently available from the website.
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Araucaria
http://araucaria.computing.dundee.ac.uk/
Araucaria is the website of a free software programme for analysing arguments. It is primarily intended to be used as an undergraduate teaching tool for students of philosophy and logic, although it may also be of use to researchers requiring analytical support for claims. The software assists the reconstruction of arguments and their presentation in diagrammatic form. It features customisable schemes and is written in Java, ensuring compatibility with most computer systems, including: Windows; Linux; Unix; and Mac operating systems. The software may be downloaded from the website. The website describes the software and allows access to the full user manual, either in Postscript or PDF format. The site also hosts a searchable database of arguments, in the "search corpus" section, constructed from various online sources. Scheme sets may be downloaded. It appears that the software itself is relatively simple to use, and should be of interest to students and tutors of logic.
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Archaeotools : data mining, facetted classification and e-archaeology
http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/project/archaeotools/
This website describes an AHRC, ESPRC and JISC funded project which aims to utilise emerging information science technologies such as text mining and facetted classification to “discover, share and analyse datasets and legacy publications which have hitherto been very difficult to integrate into existing digital frameworks”. The project has three main strands: to create an intuitive ‘three dimensional’ index of the ADS database (over one million records describing sites and monuments); to use natural language processing (NLP), allowing automated tools to expand the classification schemes providing much deeper and richer access to unpublished archaeological literature; to apply these tools to back runs of archaeological journals (currently being digitised) which will include investigating whether NLP can recognise and harvest place names and match them to precise grid co-ordinates. The project aims not just to create an important and sustainable archaeology resource, but to “make recommendations for the future format and indexing of grey literature, and to draw lessons for the wider humanities e-Science community”. Project presentations and publications will be added to the website as they are released.
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Archeologia e Calcolatori
http://soi.cnr.it/archcalc/
This is the website of Archeologia e Calcolatori, an international journal in the field of archaeology and information technology. In this website users can find general information in relation to the journal; author guidelines and special issues. The site provides a search facility; an index by year; open free access to more than 100 articles that can be downloaded as PDF and access to an image gallery containing all the colour plates published in the journal. Archeologia e Calcolatori identifying the positive introduction of computers in archaeology aims to publish the results of computer research carried out in the field of historical archaeology projects in Italy and abroad; the journal is published on the initiative of the Istituto per l'Archeologia Etrusco-Italica (now Istituto di Studi sulle civiltà italiche e del Mediterraneo antico) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), together with the Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti of the University of Siena.
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Ariadne magazine
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/
Ariadne is a quarterly Web and print magazine focusing on Internet issues, published by UKOLN. It is targeted principally at information professionals in archives, libraries and museums in all sectors of academia, and will also be of interest for general readers and other professionals and academics. Ariadne offers a platform for the description and evaluation of sources and services available on the Internet and of potential use to librarians and information professionals. Coverage is given to nationally funded projects and services such as those supported by the JISC, keeping practitioners abreast of current relevant developments. Back issues from 1996 onwards are available, as is an RSS feed.
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ARMADILLO: information mining in distributive research datasets in the arts and humanities
http://www.hrionline.ac.uk/armadillo/
ARMADILLO: Information Mining in Distributive Research Datasets in the Arts and Humanities is the website of a research project which aims to provide new tools for the creation of structured information from unstructured source materials. Based on semantic web methodologies, the software is designed to retrieve information following a pre-defined ontology and populate it by using statistical techniques to derive the most likely combinations of metadata components. The website includes a demonstrator, access to which requires (free) user registration. In addition, it provides: information on the project's objectives; its background; information on the historical sources used; and links to related projects. The website will also include the project's final report when completed.
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Arts and humanities e-science support centre
http://www.ahessc.ac.uk/
The Arts and humanities e-science support centre (AHeSSC) is a JISC-funded centre which esists to support and promote the benefits of e-Science to the arts and humanities. Hosted by King's College London the centre is located at the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS) and the AHRC Methods Network. AHeSSC services include: helping connect arts and humanities researchers to grid technologies; e-Science training, advice and promotional activities; the exchange of information and expertise. To this end, the website includes a blog, wiki and community forum to connect the arts and humanities e-Science community and facilitate exposition of e-Science initiatives. There is also information on training, events and a useful knowledge base a searchable list of e-Science projects and tools.
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Arts and humanities research council (AHRC) : ICT in arts and humanities research programme
http://www.ahrbict.rdg.ac.uk/
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) : ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme is the website for a programme has which two overall aims: to build capacity throughout the UK in the use of digital technologies for arts and humanities research through the funding of projects and initiatives; and to promote, develop and monitor the AHRC's own ICT (Information and Communication Technology) strategy. The programme's website provides information about the AHRC-funded ICT Methods Network, hosted by the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London; and the ICT Strategy Projects funding programme. Information is also available about: the survey of humanities computing methodologies within existing research centres being undertaken by the programme (in association with the AHDS); the results from a series of expert seminars which discussed the ICT requirements of arts and humanities researchers; the relevance of e-science or e-research; and electronic publishing issues. The activities of the ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme are intended to complement existing services funded by the AHRC, including: the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS); and Intute: Arts and Humanities. The Programme is directed by David Robey (University of Reading).
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Arts and humanities research ICT awareness and training (ARIA)
http://aria.dmu.ac.uk/
ARIA (the Arts and Humanities ICT Awareness Programme) is a JISC-funded project which aims to provide a broader overview of ICT use and training resources for arts and humanities postgraduates and researchers. This, the project website, provides general information about the project, which aims to develop "an interactive road map providing access to a suite of nationally available online resources comprising existing training resources and new content". Existing online training resources include the Arts and Humanities Data Service, the Intute: Virtual Training Suite and Netskills. In addition, the site provides information about the AHRC ICT Methods Network - "a UK-wide service for Arts and Humanities researchers with more than a basic knowledge of ICT resources" - with whom ARIA will work closely. The project is the result of the collaboration between De Montfort University and Salford University. The ARIA site also invites researchers to fill out a questionnaire or to suggest an ICT tool for ARIA to promote.
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Assessment delivery engine for QTIv2 questions
http://www.asdel.ecs.soton.ac.uk/
Assessment Delivery Engine for QTIv2 Questions is the website of a JISC-funded project which sought to construct a suite of software for the automation of assessments conforming to version 2 of the IMS Question and Test Interoperability specification (QTI). Aiming to "kick start" the adoption of this XML-based standard, the project, which was completed in March 2008, produced a suite of software, including: JQTI (a core software library); R2Q2 (a tool for rendering and replying to questions delivered under QTI); and tools for: playing; validating; scheduling; and constructing assessments. In addition to the software tools themselves, the website also provides: an overview; papers and presentations; a project blog; and links to related resources.
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Association for computers and the humanities (ACHweb)
http://www.ach.org/
The Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACHweb) is the website of an international association for scholars involved in computer-aided research, especially the manipulation and analysis of texts. They are involved with the publication of the journal 'Literary and Linguistic Computing' and also host the Humanist discussion group. The ACH organise sessions at the major humanities conferences, as well as staging their own events. Full conference details are available online, along with abstracts of papers. The site includes a jobs page and administrative details of the Association's executive and constitution. Links are provided to related associations and projects supported by ACH.
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Athena
http://www.athenasoft.org
Athena is an online collection of resources created by a cooperative effort between philosophers and engineers to allow philosophical methods of reasoning and argumentation to be "extracted, elaborated and implemented" in computer programs. The project and related software was developed by members of the Philosophy Department, Blekinge Institute of Technology, in Karlskrona, Sweden and of the Lund Institute of Technology in Lund, Sweden. This practical application of academic research has produced two levels of the software. The standard version supports reasoning and argumentation. The other, the Athena Negotiator, is intended as an aid for the analysis of complex decision-making and two-party negotiations. Both software packages are accompanied by educational modules. All information may be downloaded and used freely for non-commercial purposes. Downloading instructions are provided. The site aims its material at teachers and students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels; users may sign up to receive updates. Accompanying articles which elaborate on the research behind the educational and software packages, as well as a number of supporting essays and exercises may be downloaded from other parts of the site. The site also has a good annotated links page.
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