Whether in universities, cultural heritage organizations such as museums, libraries and archives, commercial contexts and even in individuals’ homes the application of computing to cultural heritage is transforming how the human record can be transmitted, shaped, understood, questioned and imagined. An increasingly mainstream area of academic r…[Read more]

Since the earliest days of hypertext, textual scholars have produced, discussed and theorised upon critical digital editions of manuscripts, in order to investigate how digital technologies can provide another means to present and enable the interpretative study of text. This work has generally been done by looking at particular case studies or…[Read more]

As Web 2.0 technologies changed the World Wide Web from a read-only to a co-creative digital experience, a range of commercial and non-commercial platforms
emerged to allow online users to contribute to discussions and use their knowledge, experience, and time to build online content. Alongside the widespread success of collaboratively produced…[Read more]

Librarians have been consciously adopting metaphors to describe library concepts since the nineteenth
century, helping us to structure our understanding of new technologies. As a profession, we have drawn extensively
on these figurative frameworks to explore issues surrounding the digital library, yet very little has been written to date
which…[Read more]

Purpose

Since its launch in 2007, research has been carried out on the popular social networking website Tumblr. The purpose of this paper is to identify published Tumblr-based research, classify it to understand approaches and methods, and provide methodological recommendations for others.

Design/methodology/approach

Research regarding…[Read more]

This article considers the use of semantic web technologies in the context of everyday historians. It deduces from theoretical considerations needs for the actual implementation of a digital edition. It explains some of the basic concepts of the semantic web more extensively than necessary for the digital humanities scholar already familiar with…[Read more]

Preprint, to be published in: Historische Editionen im digitalen Zeitalter. Les éditions historiques à l’ère numérique : Bestandesaufnahme und Ausblick. État des lieux et perspectives, hg. v. Pascale Sutter u. Sacha Zala, Basel (Schwabe)
The essay discusses the consequence of digital methods in scholarly editing of historical sources. It come…[Read more]