More project case studies available

We’re very pleased that all of the project case studies are now available to read online. We posted before about the first five case studies when we added them to our institutional repository. Now the other five have joined them. Searching for Home in the...

IHR workshop on web archiving

On 11 November the IHR held a workshop, ‘An Introduction to Web Archiving for Historians’, for which we welcomed back two old friends from the BUDDAH project as speakers. The day opened with Jane Winters talking about why historians should be using web...

New IHR Digital project to be funded by AHRC

IHR Digital is very pleased to announce that we have been awarded funding by the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a new project called the Thesaurus of British and Irish History as SKOS (TOBIAS). The IHR will publish as a web ontology the Bibliography of...

Toronto summer interns’ work

Here Kaspar writes about the work of the project’s two summer interns: Roman Polyanovsky and Tim Alberdingk Thijm, two Computer Science undergraduates who were working as summer interns on the Dilipad project, have created a video to showcase the project to a...

Visualizing Parliamentary Discourse with Word2Vec and Gephi.

This is a post by Kaspar Beelen. Kaspar is a post-doctoral researcher with the Toronto part of the project team. Introduction For historians, the idea of “automated” content analysis is still contested and treated with a justified dose of suspicion. How...