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The Digital Arts & Humanities site was launched on Sunday 11 September at a reception at the 'Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities and Arts' conference.
Digital Arts & Humanities is a place to share and discuss ideas, promote your research and discover the digital arts and humanities. This virtual community of arts and humanities researchers has been developed by the AHRC ICT Methods Network in collaboration with several other institutions and communities and is hosted by King's College London.
http://www.arts-humanities.net/
As a member of the community you can:
- announce activities in your field to a wide audience
- keep up to date with what others are doing
- exchange ideas and experience with the community in our group forums and user blogs
- build your profile to show your research interests and background and search others' profiles to find contacts and identify future collaborations
- use our wiki to learn more about tools and methods for your research.
Digital Arts & Humanities is also used as a community platform by various groups and projects. We would be happy to host your community and offer features including blogs and open or private discussion groups. Even if you are already using such features on your own website, a presence on Digital Arts & Humanities is a good way of letting the wider community know what you are up to and to make new contacts.
Discussions and postings are automatically announced on other websites and integrated into social bookmarking and networking sites to make them available to a wide audience. Our RSS feeds make it easy to add our community content to your site.
Several other groups support and contribute to Digital Arts & Humanities. These include: Arts and Humanities Data Service, Arts and Humanities eScience Support Centre, CHArt - Computers and the History of Art, ICT Guides. The site already has over 240 registered members and active discussions.
You might be especially interested in a forum thread where we discuss 'After the AHDS: The End of National Support?' This thread continues the discussion from a panel at the DRHA conference (David Robey, David Sheperd, Lorna Hughes) earlier this month:
http://www.arts-humanities.net/366
For further information please contact Torsten Reimer (torsten.reimer@kcl.ac.uk).
Medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands on the web
The Hague, September 21 - Today all medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands are available on the website Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (MMDC), www.mmdc.nl. The website provides a portal to a database with short, uniform descriptions and photographs of all medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands, about 6000 items in all. Jos Biemans, Special Professor of Medieval Manuscript Studies launched the website today in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, by making the first click on the homepage.
Medieval snapshot Medieval manuscripts provide a fascinating snapshot of the cultural and intellectual life of this period. Until now, information about these manuscripts and the related knowledge and expertise was dispersed, but MMDC brings all of this material together. MMDC has been set up by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the university libraries of Leiden, Amsterdam, Utrecht and Groningen, and the Atheneumbibliotheek Deventer and it is partly financed by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO).
One website for all manuscripts MMDC is focussed on creating possibilities for progressive research based on medieval manuscripts, by building a database with uniform descriptions, digital images and links to facsimile editions and subject-specific websites. This way, all the disseminated information about medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands has been brought together and made available through one database. To benefit international use, all information is published in English.
Virtual platform The website also contains more information on medieval books in the Netherlands. This website will function as a virtual platform for researchers and students in palaeography, art history, philology and other fields. Visitors will find an overview of all Dutch institutions with medieval books, along with information on the history of the collections, contact information and procedures of requesting manuscripts. The website also contains digital versions of several key out-of-print books about medieval manuscripts and an illustrated overview of medieval script.
For questions you can contact Saskia van Bergen, project coordinator Parchment to Portal, tel.: 070-3140430, e-mail: saskia.vanbergen@kb.nl
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