The EU-funded DARIAH project is now starting work on a major
deliverable, forming a key part of its objective to define the
infrastructure needed to support European digital research in the arts
and humanities for the next decade. The *TEI demonstrator* will
showcase an open hosting service for richly encoded documents following
the Guidelines of the Text Encoding Initiative.

The service brings together ideas from several DARIAH partners. It will
combine case studies and examples of best practice and build a freely [read more...]

Here's a novel way of combining serendipity with seasonality:

http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/blog/2008/12/01/ad...

Days two and three of the Ecole Thematique I attended in Frejus last week (regrettably I had to leave on day four, thus missing the afternoon excursion to the seaside) were rich with matter. [read more...]

I find myself once more in France. The food, the weather, the wine, the cheese, are all pretty good, and so is the discussion of digital humanities. Today I gave an invited plenary to kick off a week long event on digitization in the humanities, funded by the CNRS through the TGE Adonis, and organised by three of the French Centres of Expertise which I mentioned in an earlier posting here. [read more...]

David Shepherd of Sheffield's Humanities Research Institute welcomed a respectable number (I counted about thirty at the start, and more people drifted in during the morning; the registration list has 48) people to this second workshop organized by the fledgling Network of Expert Centres in Arts and humanities. [read more...]

Last week I found myself once more in Paris for a meeting of the Conseil Scientifique (sounds impressive, means something like Academic Advisory Committee) of the TGE Adonis which, if you don’t know it, is the major French infrastructural agency for provision and management of digital resources in the humanities and social sciences (SHS), one of the small n [read more...]

In these post-AHDS, apres-Methods-Network days, a small amount of
funding has been found to explore the possibility of
setting up a "network of expert centres", aiming to develop an effective
support infrastructure in the digital arts and humanities area. As a
former AHDS centre, Oxford was invited to join the network, and I went [read more...]