Announcements and discussion of the IHR Digital History Seminar, online and in London
By Adam Crymble Historians are becoming the clients of computer science departments. It’s a quiet conspiracy to steal our research funding and push out employment opportunities for our junior historians whose skills just don’t...
Please join us for our last session of the year. This is a joint-session with the Archives and Society seminar. Presenter(s): Sarah Rees Jones, Helen Petrie, Sonia Ranade, Emma Bayne, and Roger Evans Date: ...
The A Big Data History of Music project uses metadata about sheet music publication to explore music history. The data the project uses comes from MARC records converted into tabular form with MARCedit. Inconsistencies...
Please join us for our next seminar. Presenter: Stephen Rose (RHUL) Title: Writing a Big Data History of Music Date: 9 June 2015 Time: 5:15 PM (GMT) Venue: John S Cohen Room 203, 2nd floor, IHR, North...
Presenters: Matthew Nicholls (Reading) Title: Virtual Rome: a digital reconstruction of the ancient city Date: 26 May 2015 Time: 5:15 PM (GMT) Venue: John S Cohen Room 203, 2nd floor, IHR, North block, Senate House...
Please join us for our next seminar. Presenters: Sophia Ananiadou (Manchester University) Title: Text Mining the History of Medicine Date: 24 March 2015 Time: 5:15 PM (GMT) Venue: John S Cohen Room 203, 2nd floor, IHR,...
Over the last year or so, our seminar has become increasingly web-focussed. Last week we had an excellent paper from Jack Grieve of Aston University on the tracking of newly emerging words as they...
The IHR Seminar in Digital History would like to welcome you to its second seminar of 2015. Presenters: Julia Thomas, Nicky Lloyd and Ian Harvey (Cardiff) Title: Lost Visions: retrieving the visual element of printed...
The IHR Seminar in Digital History would like to welcome you to its first seminar of 2015. Presenters: Jack Grieve (Aston) Title: Tracking the Emergence of New Words across Time and Space Date: 24 February...
By Matt Phillpott There are an increasing number of crowdsourcing projects making claims about being ‘citizen history’. Old Weather, one of the more successful crowdsourcing projects of recent years, has started to use the...
