An alternative to the Turing Test, an annual challenge with its first submission in October 2015. See Nuance’s website for more information.
Digital Exhaustion
I was just reading an informative piece, as always, by the 1709 blog which summarises the state around digital exhaustion. Not the tiredness of computers, but the way in which digital artefacts can be resold or passed on: Whether EU
DevDH: Development for the Digital Humanities
http://devdh.org About: http://devdh.org/about/ “No matter how digital humanities is defined, the development of research agendas encompasses the planning, organizing, motivating, and use of finite resources to achieve a greater understanding of the humanities and the human condition. DevDH.org provides the intellectual and strategic scaffolding
Digital Scholarship and Digital Studies: The State of the Discipline by Matthew Kirschenbaum, Sarah Werner
Book History http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/book_history/v017/17.kirschenbaum.html Abstract: While popular imagination has “the digital” opposed to “the book,” the two are now inextricably linked. This review essay looks at the range of digital tools available for conducting book history; the importance of software studies,
Stats: Wales data sources
Welsh Overview: http://wales.gov.uk/statistics-and-research/wales-summary/?lang=en 3.1 million people (mid 2011). The main urban areas are Cardiff (346,100), Swansea (239,000) and Newport (145,700). About 1 in 20 of the UK population live in Wales. The total land surface of Wales comprises nearly 2.1 million
A digital lib-bib-cell-hus
National Library of Wales [photo by Dylan Moore] Library Llyfrgell Bibliotheque Which will stand the test of time? Library (English) from librarium (Latin) – a chest for books. Llyfrgell (Welsh) – from Latin a cell for books. Bibliotheka – from
The Demise of Welsh History?
Huw Bowen’s suggestions for sustainable Welsh History: http://www.clickonwales.org/2014/12/the-strange-death-of-welsh-history/ There are many things that we could do, but here are two suggestions. First, there should be an annual festival of Welsh history. We seem to have festivals of virtually everything in
Living Labs
http://www.openlivinglabs.euThe European Network of Living Labs (ENoLL) is the international federation of benchmarked Living Labs in Europe and worldwide. Founded in November 2006 under the auspices of the Finnish European Presidency, the network has grown in ‘waves’ up to this day. To
Gwaith Dafydd ap Gwilym
Dafydd ap Gwilym website: http://www.dafyddapgwilym.net The editors of the works of Dafydd ap Gwilym included on the site are visualised using Cytoscape. The layout is manually tweaked after being laid out by Cytoscape’s algorithms. Raw data can be found here
Turning an Eye to Crime
Turing an eye to crime: South Wales Police crime data. Cytoscape layout of crime data Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v1.0. UK Crime data