A project funded by the Undergraduate Research Assistant Scheme has successfully completed the first stage of interdisciplinary work, between the Institute of Mediaeval Studies and the School of Computer Science. The long-term aim is to digitise and analyse early French bibles.
digital humanities
Text mining and copyright law
Does copyright law pose problems for research that makes use of text mining?
Six degrees of Francis Bacon
A new social network of early modern Britain is being created by digital humanities scholars at Carnegie Mellon and Georgetown Universities.
St Andrews Digital Humanities Network Launch event
The Library is looking forward to launching the new St Andrews Digital Humanities Network with an interesting afternoon of short talks, presentations and panel discussion.
Science + humanities lunchtime discussion series
Following up on the very successful IDIR Summer of V’s events, we are kicking off a more informal bi-weekly discussion series where we can continue conversations around interdisciplinary approaches to technology and data, from both a humanities and sciences perspective.
Summer of V’s: Transcribing Bentham, by Kris Grint
Kris’ slides from the Summer of V’s event.
Summer of V’s: Movies and methods, by Dina Iordanova
Dina’s slides from the Summer of V’s event.
Digital anthropology and online computational social science
Two links that might be of interest.
Discussion of digital humanities
A recent article in the New York Times digs-in to the use data in the humanities.