Part of the recent developments in Ubiquitous Music (ubimus) research involve the proposal of the Internet of Musical Stuff (IoMuSt) as an expansion and complement to the Internet of Musical Things (IoMusT). The transition from IoMusT to IoMuSt entails a critique of blockchain and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as technologies for allotment,…[Read more]

[Note: these are the slides for the second talk described in the abstract.]

Phylogenetics is an approach developed in evolutionary biology to reconstruct organisms’ relationships of descent based on observations of their trait similarities and differences. It finds a close analogue in textual criticism, where manuscripts correspond to o…[Read more]

Taking up the challenge of navigating the complex world of digital humanities, Making Sense of Digital Humanities offers readers an exploration of the many ways scholars have employed the diverse toolkit of digital humanities to create a better understanding of the synergies and disruptions created by technological change. Rooted in a concern for…[Read more]

The transition towards open access to research articles has become a
question of how, rather than why and the rise of transformative agreements
has enabled publishers to strike agreements with large institutions and
national research organisations to provide open access and authorship to
their members. In this post, Arthur J. Boston puts…[Read more]

This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). It offers a perspective into the historical imaginary of the late-medieval Portuguese aristocracy; an imaginary that underlay the argumentation of members of this social class in defence of their…[Read more]

This dissertation deals with aristocratic historiography and political legitimation in late-medieval Portugal (late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries). It offers a perspective into the historical imaginary of the late-medieval Portuguese aristocracy; an imaginary that underlay the argumentation of members of this social class in defence of their…[Read more]

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El diseño de servicios y productos de información conforman la categoría ofertas de información. El diseño de estas para el ambiente Web, centrado en los usuarios, potencia la usabilidad y la participación de dichos usuarios. Se analizan cuatro disciplinas y se exponen sus puntos de contacto: Diseño de ofertas de información, Arquitectura de info…[Read more]

Viking invasions and settlements left substantial legacies in late Anglo-Saxon England, attested in legal texts as a division between areas under Dena lage and those under Ængla lage. But how legal practice in Scandinavian-settled England functioned and differed from Anglo-Saxon law remains unclear. III Æthelred, the ‘Wantage Code’, provides criti…[Read more]

Los estudios sociales acerca del desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y el Caribe conforman un campo científico que ha sido poco estudiado y delimitado. Su constitución tiene un carácter interdisciplinar, permeado por la actividad de científicos procedentes de diversas áreas del saber y su análisis permite identificar perspectivas – limitaci…[Read more]

Die Quellensammlung zum Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita – Northern Bald Ibis) versammelt Knochenfunde (ab dem Miozän), Bildquellen aus dem Mittleren Osten, dem Alten Ägypten, der Antike, dem Mittelalter und bis ins 17. Jahrhundert und Textquellen, die bis in die Antike zurückreichen und einen eindeutigen Höhepunkt im 16. Jahrhundert (Conrad Ges…[Read more]

Das Stadtbuch der niederösterreichischen Stadt Waidhofen an der Thaya aus der Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts beginnt mit einer bemerkenswerten Initiale. Diese kombiniert Motive, die aus Notarssigneten stammen mit einem Vogel, der seit 1971 mit dem Waldrapp (Geronticus eremita) identifiziert wurde.

This dataset captures all of the references to trees in Richard Power’s The Overstory. Data from the book include page number, section, and sentence the reference appears in. Additional data include, when possible, scientific name, order, family, subfamily, genus, species, and native range.

Like early modern marginalia, tweets are used to engage with text in a plethora of ways: to annotate, explain, comment, cross- reference, call attention, memorise, disparage, satirise, ridicule, praise, translate, summarise, &c.—and to make apparently entirely extraneous, sometimes unintelligible, comments. Twitter is used by scholars in Early M…[Read more]

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बहुजन साहित्य और संस्कृति की अवधारणा ने पिछले कुछ वर्षों में आकार लेना शुरू किया है। अभी हाल (2016) में आए प्रमोद रंजन द्वारा संपादित तीन संकलन- ‘बहुजन साहित्य की प्रस्तावना’, ‘हिन्दी साहित्येतिहास का बहुजन पक्ष’और ‘महिषासुर एक जननायक’- बहुजन साहित्यिक-सांस्कृतिक आंदोलन की प्रस्तावना और अवधारणा को सामने रखते हैं और इसे पल्लवित-पुष्पित तथा विकसित क…[Read more]