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[CANCELLED] It’s all just noughts and ones

Posted on April 15, 2016 by Gabriel Egan

As computer systems get increasingly sophisticated, the experiences of users — even specialist ones working in the digital humanities — are increasingly abstracted from the underlying electrical and mechanical operations of computers. Underneath everything there are only zeroes and ones … Continue reading →

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MAKE – Digitising a single day

Posted on February 23, 2016 by Adam Crymble

The theme of this event is ‘scale’. Lately in digital humanities, we’ve tended to think about big scales – big data, longue durée. But what about the very small? In this session, I propose that we work together to ‘digitise’ … Continue reading →

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TEACH/PLAY – Treating BMD data as a ‘(semi-)closed set’

Posted on February 18, 2016 by Richard Light

Starting from 1837, the GRO Civil Registration index provides a nominally complete record of births, marriages and deaths for England and Wales.  The FreeBMD project has transcribed the vast majority of this material (up to 1983, when the GRO register … Continue reading →

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#thisthat Camp Sussex Humanities Lab, 19-20 May

Posted on September 27, 2012 by James Baker

How do we locate the individual in the noise of data? How do we tell big stories that aren’t reductive? What tools and technologies can empower researchers, educators and learners in and outside the academe to grapple with the macroscope? … Continue reading →

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