Intute presents the 15 most recent Web resources for education and research added to our Humanities Computing subject area 13 Mar 2010 03:30:00 GMT en-uk http://www.intute.ac.uk/humanities-it/latest.html Logo for the Intute service http://www.intute.ac.uk/images/intute_100_new.png 100 42 http://www.intute.ac.uk/humanities-it/latest.html http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-20100212-114846 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=vim-20100212-114846 Open Scriptures is an online project which seeks to create an open source Web repository for integrated scriptural data, and to provide a platform for building scripture-related applications. The ultimate aim is to create a database for a variety of textual resources (including, for example, manuscripts and biblical translations), which would permit these to be compared, searched, and analysed. The website offers: background information on the project; a directory of other websites dealing with open scriptural data; a discussion group; and a link to the project source code. Also available are prototypes of the sort of tool the project hopes to facilitate, including a manuscript comparator, which allows the text of two or more New Testament manuscripts to be examined side by side, with insertions, deletions, and variations highlighted. Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091123-2255128 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091123-2255128 Journal TOCs is a JISC-funded project, allowing users to easily search the recent tables of contents (TOCs) from most commercially-published academic journals. The service offers a simple search-box, enabling keyword searches of RSS feeds from... "12,725 journals collected from 422 publishers". The service also has lists which can be browsed by either publisher or journal subject. The export of OPML files is permitted - enabling users to set up feeds for their favourite RSS feedreader. This reviewer undertook a test search for six major open-access titles in the arts and humanities, and the lack of these titles in Journal TOCs suggests that many open-access journals are not likely to be found here - presumably due to the general lack of RSS feeds in open-access ejournals outside of the sciences. Despite this limitation, the Journal TOCs service will be immensely useful for researchers in a wide variety of subjects. Users may register with the site, to save their regular searches. A free API is available to developers, offering potential for integrating Journal TOCs into other information services and online mashups. Tue, 29 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091210-11042124 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091210-11042124 Rossiiskie elektronnye biblioteki is a portal for Russian digital libraries, which publishes the Russian Digital Libraries Journal and promotes collaboration on issues of standards and technology. A bilingual inventory of Russian digital libraries is especially useful, and can be browsed by: subject area (e.g. education or arts and culture); type of resource (e.g. video, geodata, full-text); creator organisation; status (completed or in progress) amongst others. Some areas of the site do not seem to have been updated for several years, and there are a number of broken links in the inventory, but it still provides a wealth of interesting information on humanities computing and online resources for Russian area studies, with contact details for those involved in these projects. The journal provides English-language abstracts of Russian full-text papers, as well as full-text versions in both languages of papers submitted in English. Potentially a useful springboard for those researching, planning or implementing digitisation projects involving Cyrillic. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091101-23245975 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091101-23245975 Cartography 2.0 is a 2009 website whose authors describe it as a... "free online knowledge base and e-textbook for students and professionals who are interested in interactive and animated maps". This resource will be of interest to graphic designers, as well as those working in the digital humanities. Chapters include: Elements of Design; Map Animation (including a History of Animated Maps); 3D / Virtual Globes; U.I. & Useability; Map Interaction Techniques; Advanced Topics. The content of the website is licenced under a Creative Commons 3.0 License. The website is run by Mark Harrower, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is published by his company Axis Maps LLC. Sun, 29 Nov 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091025-15455329 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091025-15455329 The Parsons Journal for Information Mapping is a free full-text ejournal for research in the novel design approaches needed to map complex information systems and huge data sets. At October 2009 the issue has published four issues during 2009. Articles are freely available as full-text PDF files, with abstracts, author biography, and project metadata. Example articles from the first four issues include: 'The Visual Repertoire of Obama's Run for the White House'; 'Revising the Map: Modulated Mapping and The Spatial Interface'; 'Bronx Rhymes: An Urban Multimedia Project'; 'Spatial Awareness and Exploration of the Museum Building'; and 'Magnifying the Eye of Culture: Visual Cognition through a Comparative Sociocultural Progression of Christian and Islamic Images', among others. The journal is likely to be of interest to those in graphic design, interaction design, knowledge visualisation methods, visual communication, and infosthetics. Articles may also interest those working with terascale data sets in the digital humanities. The journal has details of the Editorial Board, calls for papers, and the ability to subscribe by email. Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091004-08351551 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20091004-08351551 Kultur was a JISC-funded online project, which created a... "working model of a sustainable institutional repository for research output in the visual and applied arts", the Kultur Demonstrator. The website contains a full set of PDF reports on the progress and outcomes of the project, along with details of the staff involved, and links to the original JISC description of the project. This may be an interesting resource for those considering the ways in which academic online repositories and archives might best deal with... "the requirements of images and time-based media". The project ended in March 2009 and was a joint venture between the University of Southampton, University of the Arts, University for the Creative Arts, the Visual Arts Data Service, and Leiden University - and was part of the £14m JISC Repositories and Preservation Programme. Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090911-12012635 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090911-12012635 This is the demonstration website for STARS (Semantic Tools for Screen Arts Research Project). Run from the University of Bristol, STARS is funded by JISC to develop: this demonstrator online system; an extended open source tool for searching distributed data sources (including multimedia) for the visualisation, replay and annotation of screen-based arts media in context; a review of existing practices and technologies used for screen arts media databases; and an analysis of options for resource retrieval across file-sharing systems. The project ran for 18-months, and concluded in July 2009. There is also an associated weblog which contains documentation, a profile of the project and its staff, reports of demonstration workshops with images, and a link to the main STARS online demonstration project. STARS will be of interest to those researching semantic approaches to image and screen arts databases. Fri, 11 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090219-10380585 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090219-10380585 This Web page outlines a series of AHRC-funded workshops held in 2009 aimed at exploring the contribution of research to innovation and creativity, by bringing together practitioners, researchers and policy makers from disciplines across the arts, humanities, social sciences and creative industries. Fri, 4 Sep 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080605-15091892 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20080605-15091892 This is the wiki-based website of Concordia, a JISC/NEH-funded project. Concordia will create a new digital collection of engraved inscriptions from the Roman monuments of Tripolitana (northern Libya). The digitised texts may be integrated with geographic datasets to allow: integrated text searching; dynamic mapping; and geographical linkages for these and other relevant collections. The project is completed in 2009, and the The website remains active in aprts, with schedule of Web chats online. The site also includes: a short description of the primary sources used; a minimal project plan; project news; and information on the ORE (Object Reuse and Exchange) and other interoperability standards that are used. Other major resources may be presented as the project outputs become available. Indeed, elsewhere on the Web some outputs from this project are in evidence, for example in the Pleiades website which gives geographical information on the ancient world Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090818-15500055 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090818-15500055 This Web page from the JISC Digitisation Programme details the work done by academics at the University of Oxford and at the Internet archiving bodies - Hanzo and the Internet Archive - to establish comprehensive collections of archived humanities research websites on the First World War and the Second World War. This work was done in an effort to demonstrate a framework for 'e-Humanities' (also called Digital Humanities or Humanities Computing) research using available open source tools and technologies and archived Web content to create novel research interfaces to scholarly, e-Humanities Web collections and to build and test the tools constructed. Some of these tools are still available online and are linked to from the World Wide Web of Humanities' final report (June 2009) which you can download as a PDF. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090818-14513981 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090818-14513981 This is a the website of DigiIslam, a project which completed, in 2008, a review of User Requirements for Digitised Resources in Islamic Studies. This study was funded by the JISC Digitisation Programme. From the home page you may download a PDF of the final report which details the project's work to plot existing digitised resources (mainly online) and to identify gaps in the provision of digitised resources for Islamic Studies. This also looks at establishing criteria for prioritizing potential material and collections for future digitisation as well as further recommendations to support the development of Islamic Studies via the use of existing digitised resources to assist in the study and teaching of the subject. Tue, 18 Aug 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-01275418 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090629-01275418 Slovo: Towards a Digital Library of South Slavic Manuscripts is the website of an international project which aims to: increase cooperation between academic institutions studying medieval Slavic monastic culture; develop a website on Balkan literary heritage; create internationally agreed standards for the electronic publishing, description and encoding of medieval Slavic manuscripts. Pages on individual monasteries offer all or some of the following: an overview of monastery history; a description of manuscript collections and art treasures; a description of digitization efforts; links to manuscript descriptions; related links; bibliography; links to online articles or PDF files. Within the guidelines section is: an article on storing, publishing and researching Slavic manuscripts with computer technology, based on the work of the Repertorium Intitiative and the Slovo project; a ‘how to’ encode Slavic manuscripts within Text Encoding Initiative guidelines; and further documents on character set standardization, XML and advanced encoding resources which will be of interest specifically for those involved in the electronic publishing of medieval manuscripts. The links to current manuscript projects under ‘initiatives’ are of particular interest. This site will be of great use for researchers in the field of palaeoslavistics, and of significant interest to those researching medieval Slavic monastic culture. Mon, 29 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090604-22425511 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090604-22425511 'Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting The Past on The Web' (2005) is a free ebook, published online by the Center for History and New Media. The book is cleanly designed in HTML, and is easy to navigate. Chapters include: 'Designing for the History Web'; 'Building an Audience'; 'Collecting History Online'; 'Owning the Past?' and 'Preserving Digital History', among others. A 355-page print version of the book (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) is also available for purchase, if required. The authors are Daniel J. Cohen of the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University, and Roy Rosenzweig, Professor of History & New Media at George Mason University. This will be a useful book for anyone undertaking a history project with an online component. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090628-20385630 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090628-20385630 This is the website of a 2009 Cambridge University Press book on search design, possibly one of the most critical design issues of our age. 'Search User Interfaces' is freely available online in full-text form. The book by Marti Hearst examines the design of search interfaces across a range of platforms and delivery methods. Chapters include: 'Design of Search User Interfaces'; 'Evaluation of Search User Interfaces'; 'Presentation of Search Results'; 'Information Visualization for Search Interfaces'; and 'Emerging Trends in Search Interfaces', among others. At June 2009, it is reported that the book will be available in print form in September 2009. This ebook will be useful for interface designers, web designers, designers of library systems, and those aiming to build robust methods of data-mining in the digital humanities, among others. Sun, 28 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090119-1449029 http://www.intute.ac.uk/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=20090119-1449029 The Telamon Project is hosted by the department of Classics at St Kliment Ohridski University in Sofia and aims to create an online digital library of the ancient Greek inscriptions found in Bulgaria. In total there are over 3,500 such inscriptions, dating from the 6th century BC to the 4th century AD. Geographically the particular focus is on Roman Thrace, Philippopolis and Augusta Traiana. At the time of compiling this review only a very small proportion of the inscriptions was available on the website, but this is clearly an evolving resource. Users may search for inscriptions by number, findspot, date, text category and type of monument, and for each inscription the following information is provided: the original text; an English translation; important bibliography; textual apparatus and commentary; a photograph of the inscription. This resource is of particular interest for scholars whose work focuses on Greek epigraphy, as well as for people working with the digital humanities generally, especially those interested in encoding and resource-construction. Thu, 25 Jun 2009 00:00:01 GMT