by Talking Humanities | Nov 13, 2018 | Digital, Features
What are edge cases, and why do they matter? Dr James O’Sullivan, a digital arts and humanities lecturer at University College Cork, puts flippancy aside to unpick these uncanny constructs that are born of digital apparatus and reside somewhere between book and not...
by Talking Humanities | Sep 7, 2017 | Archives & Libraries, Digital, Features, History & Classics, Research & Resources
What kinds of questions will big data allow us to ask and answer? How can we ensure this material is collected and preserved in such a way that it meets the requirement of humanities researchers? These are two of the questions addressed by a 12-month ‘Born-digital big...
by Talking Humanities | May 30, 2017 | Digital, Events, Features, Research & Resources
Image: © Shutterstock Given the fragility of web data, and the increasing difficulty to access it freely, how can we establish online evidence as facts, historical evidence or truth?, asks Dr Anat Ben-David, a senior lecturer at the Open University of Israel. She is...
