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From the National Endowment for the Humanities 1. 32 New Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Awards 2. 5 New Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities 3. DFG/NEH Bi-Lateral Digital Humanities Grantees From Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Germany) and NEH
Authors: Sitaram Asur, Louis Yu, Bernardo A. Huberman (Hewlett-Packard Labs, Palo Alto and Hewlett-Packard Labs) From the Abstract: There has been a tremendous rise in the growth of online social networks all over the world in recent times. While some networks like Twitter and Facebook have been well documented, the popular Chinese microblogging social network Sina […]
A new service offering bound paper copies of material available from the wonderful Social Science Research Network web site is now available. Even with the eBook and eBook Reader frenzy going on these day, professionally bound versions of printed research reports still seem to be of value to authors and others. If not bound, all […]
1. “The Court of Appeal in London has today upheld a ruling that headlines and web links taken from newspapers websites are protected by copyright.” (via Managing IP) Case: NLA v Meltwater & PRCA Full Text of Ruling (via BAILII) “Winners And Losers In The News Aggregator Copyright Case” (via paidContent) “PRCA and Meltwater are […]
"Looking for Link Between Library Usage and Student Attainment" In New Issue (July, 2011) of Ariadne
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|Ariadne #64 (July, 2011) Main Articles in This Issue: Towards Interoperabilty of European Language Resources Sophia Ananiadou and colleagues describe an ambitious new initiative to accelerate Europe-wide language technology research, helped by their work on promoting interoperability of language resources. Image ‘Quotation’ Using the C.I.T.E. Architecture Christopher Blackwell and Amy Hackney Blackwell describe with examples […]
The maps shows 373 centers that the feds hope to close over the next two years. From Computerworld: The targeted data centers range in size from a 195,000-square foot Department of Homeland Security facility in Alabama to four Department of Agriculture data centers, each of less than 1,000 square feet in size. If the White […]
From the DuraSpace Web Site: The not-for-profit DuraSpace organization announced that it will develop a hosted, cloud-based data storage and management service aimed at meeting the specific needs of working scientists and researchers. The new service, an expansion of DuraSpace’s popular DuraCloud data management and archiving service, is being funded through a grant from the […]
From Europeana News: The results of this year’s user survey are now available online. The survey ran in May 2011 and received over 5000 responses. Respondents say they find the content of Europeana more userful than on similar sites and far more trustworthy. Read a Summary of the Results (PowerPoint) Read the Complete Report (34 […]
Both Items are Published by Statistics Canada. Access is free. 1. Recently Updated: Health Profile (Searchable Database) Features health region data from a number of sources including Statistics Canada’s health surveys, administrative data, and the census of population. The application is designed to give quick access to the latest health-related data available for a selected […]
From an Article by Alison Flood (via The Guardian): Until now. I come back from holiday to learn about one of the most exciting developments for ages: from Arthur C Clarke to Philip K Dick, Marion Zimmer Bradley to Robert Silverberg, Gollancz is making thousands of classic out-of-print SFF titles available as ebooks. The SF […]