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  • Announcing the DHO 2010 Summer School

    10 December 2009 - The third annual Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) Summer School will take place in Dublin from 28 June to 2 July 2010 in conjunction with NINEs and the EpiDoc Collaborative.

    For more information please visit the Summer School site

    Following the highly successful 2009 Summer School, next year’s event will see the expansion of popular workshop strands such as:

    • A Practical Introduction to the Text Encoding Initiative
    • Data Visualisation for the Humanities
    • An Introduction to EpiDoc Markup and Editing Tools
    • The One to Many Text: Text Transformations with XSLT

    The Summer School will feature lectures by Dr. Hugh Denard (King's College London Visualisation Lab) and Dr Ian Gregory (University of Lancaster).

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  • Intellectual Property and Art and Design Highlighted at NIVAL

    Icon Showing Copyright Symbol of Scales23 November 2009 - Participants from the Digital Humanities Observatory were pleased to be part of the Art and Design, Digitisation and Intellectual Property Symposium, A NIVAL event in association with IVARO and the DHO. DHO IT Manager Don Gourley provided an introduction to the event speaking on the copyright and intellectual property challenges facing the digital humanities. Digital Humanities Specialist Dr K Faith Lawrence spoke later in the afternoon session on creativity and mash-up culture.

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  • The DHO invited to Visualizar 09: Public Data, Data in Public

    the Digital Façade used to display information on air quality in Madrid area20 November 2009 - DHO Web Developer, Paolo Battino, attended the third edition of the Visualizar international workshop-seminar in Madrid (Spain). Paolo Battino and Valentina Barsotti (designer within the Rome-based company AzzeroCO2) were invited to present their paper, Closing the circle: a novel way of presenting environmental data to the public, selected as 1 of 5 theoretical works for public presentation.

    The event started with a two-day international seminar on data visualization, highlighting the importance of data structures today in public decision-making and governance processes.

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  • DataBasics Workshop Presented at Trinity College Dublin

    Image showing the DataBasics classroom20 November 2009 - Don Gourley, DHO IT Manager, and Dr K Faith Lawrence, Digital Humanities Specialist, delivered the DataBasics - Using Databases for Humanities Research, workshop at Trinity College Dublin. This one-day course provided an introduction to the concepts, techniques, and technology for using the entity-relationship model to organise and manage humanities research data.

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  • Doegen Records Web Project Goes Online

    19 November 2009 - The Royal Irish Academy Library in collaboration with the Digital Humanities Observatory is proud to announce the launch of the Doegen Records Web Project web site. This digital archive of recordings in Irish-language dialects, made during 1928-31, comprises an important collection of stories, songs and other material. The collection includes 137 Gaelic speakers from 17 counties. This initial edition of the web site provides digitized versions of recordings originally produced on shellac records. These audio files will be supplemented by transcriptions and translations of the recordings, information on the people recorded, and other related content as it becomes available, enhancing an already rich resource.

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