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ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB) is an online collection of approximately 4,300 books of high quality in the humanities, accessible through institutional and individual subscription. HEB is available to entire campus communities. Using any web browser, faculty, students, staff and library patrons of subscribing institutions can view and search the HEB collection from campus offices, libraries, dorms and remotely when off-campus. An institutional subscription to HEB includes unlimited, simultaneous multi-user access from any Internet-connected location.
An Ideas Exchange Blending Live Events and Humanities Journalism. An affiliate of Arizona State University. A not-for-profit. publishes original daily journalism syndicated to 189 media outlets worldwide. At a time when our country’s public sphere is narrow and polarized, Zócalo seeks to be a welcoming intellectual space where individuals and communities can tackle fundamental questions in an accessible, nonpartisan, and broad-minded spirit. committed to translating ideas to broad audiences and to engaging a new, young, and diverse generation in the public square.
This site aims to give the background to, and rationale for, our vision of building a low cost, sustainable, Open Access future for the humanities. The Open Library of Humanities aims to provide a platform for Open Access publishing that is: Reputable and respected through rigorous peer review, Sustainable, Digitally preserved and safely archived in perpetuity ...
CLARIN proposes a component-based approach: you can combine several metadata components (sets of metadata elements) into a self-defined scheme that suits your particular needs. Of course you can share your profile with others (in fact we strongly advise that). If sharing the full profile is not an option, you still can use common components, e.g. a component to describe a sound recording. In case that still does not address your needs, it is even possible to create components yourself.The CLARIN project (Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure) is a large-scale pan-European collaborative effort to create, coordinate and make language resources and technology available and readily useable.
Links for the book by Richard Miller and Kurt Spellmeyer. The Link-O-Mat is designed to help you learn more about the issues raised by the readings included in The New Humanities Reader. We've created a separate "link-o-mat" for each of the readings. e.g. Karen Armstrong, David Abram, Susan Faludi, Malcolm Gladwell, Henry Petroski, Michael Pollan, Mitchell Stephens.
The Software Environment for the Advancement of Scholarly Research (SEASR), funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, provides a research and development environment capable of powering leading-edge digital humanities initiatives.
Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with nineteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access and free, downloadable MARC records. HEB is available 24/7 on- and off-campus through standard web browsers.
The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC1) from the United Kingdom, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH2) from the United States, the National Science Foundation (NSF3) from the United States, and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC4) from Canada.
Lincoln Mullen (a doctoral student at Brandeis) surveys the continuum of practices that connect "traditional" scholars working with tools like MS Word and JSTOR to the most digital-minded humanists, and makes a positive case for bringing the two sides together.
VisualEyes is web-based authoring tool developed at the University of Virginia to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations. VisualEyes enables scholars to present selected primary source materials and research findings while encouraging active inquiry and hands-on learning among general and targeted audiences. It communicates through the use of dynamic displays – or "visualizations" – that organize and present meaningful information in both traditional and multimedia formats, such as audio-video, animation, charts, maps, data, and interactive timelines. The effective use of the visualizations can reveal and illuminate relationships between multiple kinds of information across time and space far more effectively than words alone.
Annotating is a pervasive element of scholarly practice scholars remain dissatisfied with the options available for annotating digital resources. The overarching goals of this project (consisting of multiple phases) are: To facilitate the emergence of a Web and Resource-centric interoperable annotation environment To demonstrate through implementations an interoperable annotation environment enabled by the interoperability specifications To seed widespread adoption by deploying robust, production-quality applications conformant with the interoperable annotation environment in ubiquitous and specialized services, tools, and content used by scholars -- e.g.: Zotero, AXE, LORE, Co-Annotea, Pliny; JSTOR, AustLit, MONK.