Last week the DM2E team at the Austrian National Library (ONB) organised a seminar on the wider possibilities of scholarly and library (re-)use of Linked Open Data in Vienna. Max Kaiser, Head of the Research & Development department of the ONB opened the afternoon and stressed how satisfied the library is with the progress that DM2E has […]
Open Humanities Awards: Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online update 2
*This is the second in a series of posts from Dr Michael Piotrowski, one the recipients of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – Open track.* Europäische Friedensverträge der Vormoderne online (“Early Modern European Peace Treaties Online”) is a comprehensive collection of about 1,800 bilateral and multilateral European peace treaties from the period of 1450 to 1789, published as an […]
Open Humanities Awards: finderApp WITTFind update 2
*This is the second in a series of posts from Dr Maximilian Hadersbeck, the recipient of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – DM2E track.* The research group “Wittgenstein in Co-Text” is working on extending the FinderApp WiTTFind tool, which is currently used for exploring and researching Wittgenstein’s Big Typescript TS-213 (BT), to the rest of the 5000 pages of […]
DM2E final event: Registration and agenda
Enabling humanities research in the Linked Open Web – DM2E final event Since the project start in February 2012, the partners in the DM2E project have been working on building the tools and communities to enable humanities researchers to work with manuscripts in the Linked Open Web. Before the project closes, in February 2015, we […]
Open Humanities Awards – SEA CHANGE update 2
This is the second in a series of posts from Dr Rainer Simon, one the recipients of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – Open track. Bringing About the SEA CHANGE: Results from our 1st Workshop About a week ago, on Friday October 31, we held our first annotation workshop for the SEA CHANGE project. As you […]
Open Humanities Awards: finderApp WITTFind update 1
*This is the first in a series of posts from Dr Maximilian Hadersbeck, the recipient of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – DM2E track.* One aim of our project was to extend our FinderApp WiTTFind, which is currently used for exploring and researching only Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Big Typescript TS-213 (BT), to the rest of the 5000 […]
DM2E event on 18 November, ONB, Vienna: Registration and agenda
Putting Linked Library Data to Work: the DM2E Showcase Join us on Tuesday 18 November at the ONB Austrian National Library in Vienna to find out more about the DM2E project and the wider possibilities of scholarly and library (re-)use of Linked Open Data. In this half-day seminar we will share information on how content has been used […]
Fifth Digital Humanities Advisory Board meeting
The Digital Humanities Advisory Board of the DM2E project meets on a regular basis to ensure that the research direction and technical developments within the project meet the needs of digital humanities scholars. On 2 October the Board held their fifth meeting, with the following attendees: Dirk Wintergrün (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte) Sally Chambers (DARIAH, Göttingen Centre […]
Open Humanities Hack: 28 November 2014, London
On Friday 28 November 2014 the second Open Humanities Hack event will take place at King’s College, London. This is the second in a series of events organised jointly by the King’s College London Department of Digital Humanities, the Digitised Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E) project, the Open Knowledge Foundation and the Open Humanities Working Group. The event is […]
Open Humanities Awards: SEA CHANGE update 1
*This is the first in a series of posts from Dr Rainer Simon, one the recipients of the DM2E Open Humanities Awards – Open track.* SEA CHANGE aims to facilitate the mass annotation of places in Historic Geospatial Documents (both geographic texts and maps) in two hackathon-style annotation workshops. We are pleased to announce that […]