What are the Digital Humanities?
The Day of Digital Humanities on 27th March this year has provoked numerous conversations about the nature of Digital Humanities (DH). Some believe DH is a discipline or community, with its own methods, resources, communities of practice, journals, standards of … Continue reading
Discovering Babel – final outcomes
This is a summary of some of the key outcomes of the Discovering Babel project, with links to where you can find out more. Next steps For those of you looking to find electronic literary and linguistic resources please visit … Continue reading
CLARIN infrastructure notes – on the record
In a recent informal meeting involving various members of the CLARIN and other infrastructure initiatives, we had an open, frank and “off the record” discussion about successes and failures so far, and plans for the future. In preparation for the … Continue reading
Making your language resources discoverable and reusable
By Ylva Berglund Prytz and Martin Wynne, University of Oxford The JISC-funded Discovering Babel project has enabled the Oxford Text Archive to improve the ways in which we make our language resources available for users to find and use. Here … Continue reading
Discovering Babel: technical issues
The Discovering Babel project aims to make the digital resources in the Oxford Text Archive easier to discover for potential users. The technical issues in the project relate to the ways in which we are making the OTA catalogue data … Continue reading
Discovering Babel workshop
A summary of the outcomes of the workshop on How to make your language resources discoverable was held at Oxford University Computing Services on Friday June 24th, as part of the JISC-funded Discovering Babel project.
How to make your language resources discoverable
The Oxford Text Archive will host a one-day workshop on Friday June 24th entitled How to make your language resources discoverable, as part of the JISC-funded Discovering Babel project. The workshop is aimed at researchers who create and use corpora … Continue reading
Do we still need language corpora?
A debate at the University of Oslo will consider whether we should still spend our time hand-crafting the balanced, representative corpus of language in use, or instead rely in marshalling the mass of online data at our fingertips.
Discovering Babel
I am currently working on the project Discovering Babel: enhanced language resource discovery, as part of a wider project to bring the latest technologies for finding and sharing data to the Oxford Text Archive. The project is funded by JISC, … Continue reading
CHAIN Panel Session
In a panel session at the Digital Humanities 2010 conference, representatives of key organisations and infrastructure initiatives explained some of the ways in which they are engaged in building services to support research in the Humanities, and were asked to … Continue reading