Data preservation for historians

When you embark on historical research do you think much about backing up your data?  Do you have files scattered all over the place with random names that make it very difficult to figure out what is what?  Have you considered how you might make your data available...

Free Data Preservation course on History SPOT

When you embark on historical research do you think much about backing up your data?  Do you have files scattered all over the place with random names that make it very difficult to figure out what is what?  Have you considered how you might make your data available...

Journal of the House of Lords: new volumes

We have just published four new volumes of the Journal of House of Lords on British History Online. These are volumes 31-34, which cover the period 1765-76, and thus are a useful source for, among other things, the British reaction to increasing tension and hostility...

The Prime Ministers’ Rating Game: The Top Ten at No. 10

So who has been the best prime minster of Britain since 1945? A 2010 survey in The Political Quarterly [1] lists the following order:-AttleeThatcherBlairMacmillanWilsonChurchillCallaghanMajorHeathBrownDouglas-HomeEdenBased on a survey of academics, the list echoes a...

My first SPARQL queries

A few weeks ago, as mentioned in an earlier post, I attended the Linked Data course at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School. As part of the course we wrote (or tried to write) some SPARQL queries. SPARQL is the query language used to interrogate RDF and was...

What should the digital humanities be?

Nixon’s secretary, Rose Mary Woods, from the Gerald R. Ford Library and MuseumLast week I attended the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School, where I was taking the course on linked data. As well as the course sessions there were plenary lectures, of which one...