This is an audio recording of the presentation '"Oh, to make boards to speak! There is a task!" Towards a Poetics of Paradata' given by Richard Beacham, King’s College, London, UK, at the Methods Network expert seminar on history and archaeology: Virtual History and Archaeology (University of Sheffield, 19-21 Apr 2006).

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...]

Establishing Collaborative Postgraduate Research Programmes And Integrated Teaching Agendas Using The Access Grid

Start Date: July 2005
End Date: Oct 2006

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The Virtual Vellum project provides distributed access to research-quality digitisations of folios from the Chronicles of Jean Froissart, the principal historical source for the first phase of the 100 Years War between England and France. Images are digitally photographed and stored as TIFFs. [read more...]

Multidimensional Visualization of Archival Finding Aids is a focused study intending to create a ZigZag implementation of two finding aids: the Gateway to Archives of Scottish Higher Education (GASHE) and Navigational Aids for the History of Science, Technology and the Environment (NAHSTE). [read more...]

This paper contains sections on: Tools and Web Resources; Database Structures; Data Mining; Quantitative Methods; Visualization; and Geographical Information Systems. [read more...]