We invite contributions concerning (but not limited to) the following topics relevant to e-Research in an arts, humanities and cultural heritage context:

* cyber-infrastructures for research
* digital repositories, digital libraries, and digital archives in research
* collaboration techniques for geographically distributed research; architectures of participation [read more...]

This workshop aims to stimulate discussions between the UK and Australasian arts, humanities and cultural heritage communities about the use of e-Research infrastructures, services, technologies and methodologies. In recent years, several grass-roots initiatives in the UK culminated in a national e-Science programme for the arts and humanities. [read more...]

Media in Motion:The Challenge of Preservation in the Digital Age

29 October 2008
McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada [read more...]

In 1938 at the XIV Congress of FID, a paper was delivered entitled A Method for Documentation in the Humanities, by A.F.Blunt.

This was used as a basis for a seminar at Kingston University in 2006, and then a meeting of the KIDMM group of the BCS. [read more...]

There is to be an exhibition in February 2008 at the Dulwich Gallery based on teh St.Sebastians of Guido Reni.

This is the first upcoming exhibition since I started exploring here with a LGBT frame of reference, so as good a topic for a knowbot as any other. [read more...]

Beginning to experiment with how much wifi access there actually is, and what you can actually do with it.

Started at the Courthauld, where I have a card for the library as a visitor, and find that I can't have wifi access and I can't telnet out to my site, nor can I access any other wifi.

So I am back to a 5x3 card.

Then to the RSA where this is fine, and posting from here. [read more...]

Last week I was invited to speak at a meeting in Birmingham organised by the Higher Education Academy on sustainable development and the humanities. The poster and abstract was on the Liverpool site of teh HEA for history, the classics and archaeology, but the last time I looked had disappeared. [read more...]

This paper, by John Bonnett, presents two opportunities for humanities and social science scholars to exploit High Performance Computing (HPC). Although from a Canadian perspective, this paper provides valuable insights for UK humanities scholars seeking to exploit recent advances in computer technology. [read more...]