Briefing Papers

The principle areas that this paper will focus on are the digital tools and techniques that have been developed to acquire, process, analyze and present text in digital formats. [read more...]

The use of computers in archaeology has a lengthy history and practitioners within the discipline can claim, with some justification, that both the technology they use and the methods that they’ve adopted have more of a relationship to scientific practice (including computer science) than those adopted by colleagues in man [read more...]

In addition to sections introducing the discipline and computational approaches relating to it, this paper includes sections on corpus linguistics, knowledge-based systems and developer tools and environments. [read more...]

This paper introduces, and reflects on, a selection of recent and current technical approaches to musicology with a view to promoting and encouraging the use of ICT techniques for research within the discipline. [read more...]

Vision and history of the Grid [read more...]

The Strategic Advisory Board For Intellectual Property Policy (SABIP) has recently published a report that examines the theoretical and empirical research on the economics of copyright and digitisation. It also identifies areas where further research is required.

An executive summary and 102 page report are available on the SABIP web site

The Internet, as most people use it, consists out of texts. These might be enriched by multimedia content, but web pages are generally nothing else but texts written in HTML so that they can be rendered by Web Browsers like the Internet Explorer. HTML texts differ from written texts in their hypertext functionality. [read more...]