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Half a million website visits!

At 1.30pm on Tuesday July 3rd a website created by the eLanguages team in Modern Languages received its 500,000th visit. ‘Prepare for Success’ (www.prepareforsuccess.org.uk) is a website of free interactive learning resources for international students planning to study at any UK university or college. It is also being used extensively by receiving institutions in the UK, as well as by institutions overseas. Continue reading →

Connected Past videos online now

Two months ago members of SotonDH organised a conference about networks in archaeology and history, called The Connected Past. The event was great (or at least that is how we experienced it). But if you were not able to be there you will be happy to know that the recorded talks are now available online. The recorded talks are illustrative of the wide range of topics by scholars from an equally diverse range of disciplines. Continue reading →

sotonDH workshop: Thinking and working in digital 3D

This *free* workshop will provide an outline of the possibilities for incorporating digital 3D technologies into your working practice. The workshop will include an introduction to a variety of techniques but it will also help you to consider how these techniques can be practically implemented within your work.  The workshop will cover a range of techniques for the capture, modelling and dissemination of 3D data including 3D printing and different styles of 3D projection and cinematography. Continue reading →

Collaborative working using open research data to create open educational resources for the humanities

This *free* local event is part of the Higher Education Academy Open Education Resources seminar series. The focus of this workshop will be to show the benefits of publishing research data openly, and to show how one set of data collected for a single discipline can be used in different ways to create Open Educational Resources with varied content across the humanities. It will be an interactive session which will involve presentations, discussion and hands-on activities. Continue reading →

Media Archaeology

Jussi Parikka from sotonDH will be talking at the CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities) seminar in Cambridge on 23 May 2012. The talk entitled “What is Media Archaeology?” will examine the theoretical challenges of studying digital culture and memory. Media Archaeology opens up the sedimented layers of contemporary media culture. I am giving a talk at Cambridge uni in May, at CRASSH, crassh.cam.ac. Continue reading →

Leipzig eHumanities award

The Leipzig centre for eHumanities has recently announced a new award scheme: the eHumanities innovation award. The award aims to recognise “emerging researchers who have developed new automated methods for the analysis of Humanities content”. The Leipzig team emphasises that they are not looking for scholars who applied existing methods to digital data, but instead want to uncover real methodological innovations that are useful for the Humanities. Continue reading →

Providing virtual access to fieldwork

We have learned that a Student Centredness grant application that the Portus Project was a partner on has been funded. The bid led by Dr Rex Taylor will design, test and evaluate a methodology for virtual fieldwork that will be appropriate to disciplines with fieldwork components from across the University. The resulting environment will be particularly suited to students who are limited in their ability to participate in fieldwork projects, for mobility, visual or other reasons. Continue reading →