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Digital Humanities Tech Skills Workshop Series Announced
16 January 2012 - The DHO is pleased to announce a series of three new workshops providing digital humanities scholars with critical technical skills and hands-on experience. The Digital Humanities Tech Skills series combine short lectures offering subject matter overview with hands-on exercises. The half-day workshops provide an informal forum to rapidly gain knowledge and appreciate application of the skills to real-world research challenges.
St Patrick's Confessio HyperStack Launched
14 September 2011 - The Royal Irish Academy was the setting for the launch of the St Patrick's Confessio HyperStack last night. Featuring a live recital of the confessio itself by their graces Dr Michael Jackson and Dr Diarmuid Martin, Archbishops of Dublin, the exciting project is now publicly available at: http://www.confessio.ie.
As Dr Luke Drury, President of the RIA reminded guests, 'Patrick is an iconic figure around which Irish identity revolves. Through the Confessio he speaks across time to us all and through the Hyperstack his words are now accessible not just to scholars but to the wider populace".
Project Leader Dr Anthony Harvey presented the HyperStack to an enthusiastic audience and thanked the many contributors who participated in making this unique and significant project a reality. The Digital Humanities Observatory has been intricately involved with this project, most recently through the efforts of Niall O'Leary, IT Projects Manager, who completed the web development of the Hyperstack and translated the scholarly objectives into technical reality. Over the past three years, Paolo Battino, Dr Randal Cream, Shawn Day, Don Gourley, Kevin Hawkins, Dr Faith Lawrence, Dot Porter and Dr Susan Schreibman have all provided technical advice and worked hands on with Hyperstack staff.
Launching DHO:Discovery - A Gateway To Irish Cultural Artefacts
30 March 2011 - Deputy Seán Sherlock, Minister of State for Research and Innovation, today launched discovery.dho.ie, a website to find and explore Irish cultural artefacts online. Pictured: Seán Sherlock, TD, Professor Luke Drury, President of the Royal Irish Academy and Shawn Day, DHO Project Manager. Speaking at the launch, Minister Sherlock said ‘The DHO:Discovery website is yet another innovative project developed by the Royal Irish Academy in cooperation with higher education and cultural institution partners as it seeks to promote excellence in the sciences, humanities and social sciences. The new website will give users access to over 6,000 digital artefacts from a range of world class collections held here on the island of Ireland. This project illustrates how we have combined innovation and technology to provide Ireland with a world class platform that provides outreach and education on our rich cultural heritage.’
New Additions to DHO:Discovery - Photographs from the RIA Library
10 May 2011 - New objects added to DHO:Discovery feature two collections of photographs from the Library of the Royal Irish Academy. The first series of photographs record the damage to Dublin from the Easter Rising in 1916. The second series of sepia- tone photographs date from the late nineteenth century and feature views of the former Museum of the RIA. Treasures from the Gold Room and artefacts previously displayed in the Long Room and the Crypt were transfered to the National Museum of Ireland. These wonderful images feature artefacts such as The Book Shrine of The Soiscal Molaise (Gospel of St. Molaise) and the Cross of Cong amongst others. Both of these collections enhance the growing number of digital artefacts referenced by DHO:Discovery and available for search and discovery.
The Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) is an all-island digital humanities collaboratory working with Humanities Serving Irish Society (HSIS), national, European, and international partners to further e-scholarship. The DHO is a knowledge resource providing outreach and education on a broad range of digital humanities topics. It provides data management, curation, and discovery services supporting the long-term access to, and greater exploitation of, digital resources in the creation of new models, methodologies and paradigms for 21st century scholarship.
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