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Teaching Digital Humanities – Higher Education Academy Summit
by Graeme Earl via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
I spent the last two days at a fascinating event in Lewes funded by the Higher Education Academy. The “summit” was focused on the teaching of Digital Humanities, with a view to the HEA gaining a sense of the current issues and priorities in teaching and learning. This will in turn inform further HEA policy and recommendations. As part of …
CII seminar, 13:00, 15th May 2014. Room 13/3017
by Luke Goater via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
Lasers for Spectroscopy and Imaging – developing new forms of cancer treatment and diagnosis of bone disease. Professor Anthony W. Parker FRSC STFC Fellow Central Laser Facility Science & Technology Facilities Council Rutherford Appleton Laboratory Abstract The presentation will describe the STFC Central Laser Facility and focus on research into using multiphoton excitation of […]
Five years into Work Futures
by Josephine Corsi via Work Thought Blog
We established the Work Futures Research Centre in December 2008 with four co-directors: Professor Susan Halford, Professor Pauline Leonard, Professor Alison Fuller, and Professor Catherine Pope. Originally supported by the Research Strategy sub-committee of the School of Social Sciences, a year later WFRC became a University Strategic Research Group. Our objectives are : – To […]
Making the Most of MOOCs
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
19th May at 12.30pm in 34/3001 After the success of the Web Science and Oceans MOOCs, 19th May sees the launch of the Portus MOOC and a number of others are in the pipeline. This event will introduce you to current and future MOOC developments with an overview of the Portus MOOC and early plans for the Digital Marketing MOOC. …
Burying the Digital
by Graeme Earl via WSI | WSI
I am at Museums and the Web this week in Baltimore. I was sat next to @trinkermedia and we were talking enthusiastically about the physical, tangible and the interactive digital (as usual). Over the last few years we have been digitising very large collections of cuneiform tablets and are mid way through developing an open source […]
Build Peace – Peace through Technology Conference
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
The event takes place from April 5 – 6 2014, at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA As another illustration of the pioneering work undertaken under the banner of Web Science, one of our Web Science DTC students, Jen Welch (@jenwelch15), has been co-organising the first ever international conference on the use of information and communication technology for peacebuilding. The Build …
WSI input to Interdisciplinary Week
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
Graeme Earl, Les Carr, Chris Phethean and myself had a great interactive session this morning on the Digital University: The Digital University #IDRW2014 from sotonDE Live blogging from #IDRW2014 this morning. Link here http://t.co/3YSyTVEAV4 talking about the Digital University. @intersoton @digichamps — Alex Hovden (@WheelsOnFire92) March 27, 2014 @lescarr and @Graemeearl demonstrating speed dating opportunities at #idrw2014 pic.twitter.com/A82ucNOwt2 — Lisa …
Crowd annotation of RTI
by Eleni Kotoula via WSI | WSI
As part of the on-going AHRC RTI FoF project for the on-line, open source RTI viewer we are working on development of a tool that will encourage scientific co-operation among cultural heritage professionals, being at the same time an enhanced dissemination and presentation tool. The artefact visualised in RTI form is not just a static […]
Rode Imaging Event
by Hembo Pagi via WSI | WSI
Few posts ago i wrote about imaging work at St. Nicholas church in Tallinn, Estonia. Now this has grown into bigger collaboration and a co-hosted event in coming May. There will be three speakers from ACRG: Graeme Earl, James Miles and me. Check the museum’s website for more information and registering .
Interdisciplinary Research Week: Trust, Truth and Trolling – how we handle the web
by Lisa Harris via WSI | WSI
Tickets are free and you can book your place here Trust truth and trolling from lisa harris Can’t miss free coffee and muffins!
“Interdisciplinary Week @ UoS» Web Science MOOC http://t.co/twkmTSP50j #flwebsci #IDRW2014” — Edita (@Edita_Tama) March 6, 2014