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    Swansea’s Bookshops & Booksellers

    Inside view of cover to cover mumbles showing books and shelving

    Just gathering a list of the Information Palaces of Swansea. Image is ©Cover to Cover in Mumbles. Current Waterstones (Online Chain & Oxford Street) Cover to Cover (Online and Newton Road, Mumbles) Dylan’s Online and Mobile Bookstore Siop Ty Tawe

    Steve 3 May 20213 May 2021 cultural, library, literature, Swansea History Read more

    Prologue to a Digital Adventure

    Prologue to a Digital Adventure

    Wales’ Digital Adventure  In any great project there will be more than one strand, more than one thread, that will weave a path through activities, through participants, joining together communities in new endeavours. The promise of the Digital Adventure is

    Steve 25 April 202126 April 2021 cultural, data, Digital Estate, research, technology, Welsh, Welsh History Read more

    Complexities: there’s not an app for that

    Complexities: there’s not an app for that

    It is still quite amazing how much the digital world can hinder, not help. It is such a fantastic resource, and opportunity, and there’s an app for that you know. But at times, maybe more than even we realise, it

    Steve 21 October 2016 Digital Estate Read more

    Happy #NationalPoetryDay 2016

    Happy #NationalPoetryDay 2016

    The Village R. S. Thomas Scarcely a street, too few houses To merit the title; just a way between The one tavern and the one shop That leads nowhere and fails at the top Of the short hill, eaten away

    Steve 6 October 20166 October 2016 poetry, Welsh Read more

    The Digital Estate

    The Digital Estate

    In a previous post I mentioned the idea of the Digital Estate, an idea originally from a colleague referring in a similar way to our physical estate — buildings etc. — to our online presence and world that is usually made

    Steve 21 August 201621 August 2016 Digital Estate Read more

    Digital Latin Library

    Digital Latin Library

    Digital Latin Library digitallatin.org “The Digital Latin Library (DLL) is a joint project of the Society for Classical Studies, the Medieval Academy of America, and the Renaissance Society of America. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Scholarly Communications Program funds the

    Steve 20 August 201621 August 2016 Classics, computer science, digital humanities, language, Latin, linguistics Read more

    Swansea University Libraries – Delivering the Bay Library – the short story

    Swansea University Libraries – Delivering the Bay Library – the short story

    A Shorthand social story about the building of Swansea University’s Bay Library

    Steve 18 February 201621 August 2016 library, South Wales, Swansea University Read more

    A Year of Digital Adventure: building our digital estate

    For Wales, 2016 is the Year of Adventure. In this fledgling digital world of ours though, every year is full of digital adventures, where new technologies, services, apps, ideas and people come to the fore. The prologue to the digital

    Steve 28 January 201621 August 2016 Big Data, computer science, conference, cultural, data, digital humanities, South Wales, Swansea University, Tourism, Welsh Government Read more

    National Poetry Day 2015

    … But what strange art, what magic can dispose The troubled mind to change its native woes? Or lead us willing from ourselves, to see Others more wretched, more undone than we? This BOOKS can do;–nor this alone; they give

    Steve 8 October 201521 August 2016 library, poetry Read more

    The making of a digital language?

    To be a digital, online language we might expect that various support tools are required, foundations if you like. Languages need computer support, digital tools and from these a range of advances become possible. Without these tools and foundations then

    Steve 8 June 201521 August 2016 digital humanities, language, linguistics, Welsh, Welsh Government Read more
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