Leif Isaksen, Author at Digital Humanities

Here and There, Then and Now – Modelling Space and Time in the Humanities

Leif Isaksen — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 22:58:20 +0000

Here are details for the 1st Call for Papers for the Second Workshop of the NeDiMAH Space and Time Working Group: Here and There, Then and Now – Modelling Space and Time in the Humanities. This is a Satellite Workshop of Digital Humanities 2012, Hamburg, Germany on Tuesday 17th July Spatio-temporal concepts are so ubiquitous that it is easy for us to forget …

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Google funds project investigating the geography of the ancient world

Leif Isaksen — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:25:47 +0000

A University of Southampton led project, exploring how people of antiquity viewed the geography of the ancient world, has been backed by $50,000 of funding from Google, Inc. via its Digital Humanities Awards Program. Google Ancient Places (GAP) is developing a Web application which allows users to choose a classical text or book (500BC – 500AD) and then search for …

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Pelagios: An Information Superhighway for the Ancient World

Leif Isaksen — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:22:54 +0000

The Open University is leading a project that aims to connect Ancient World resources online. By providing guidelines and plans for annotating, cataloguing and visualising references to ancient places, Pelagios2 assists people working with the ancient world to make their resources more discoverable, accessible and usable to other researchers and the general public. Dr Elton Barker, Lecturer in Classical Studies …

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