Live Stream: Digital Research and Editing Environments Workshop

Jul 4, 2011

Every now and then a digital research project comes along which attempts to make innovative use of various available technologies and turn them into something coherent and extremely useful for an academic discipline.  I feel that the IHR’s ReScript Project is one such...

New datasets for London history

Jun 27, 2011

Recently added to British History Online is the first in a series of datasets for early modern London. Generated by the People in Place project, each dataset is focussed on family and household in a group of London parishes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries....
Has open access come of age ?

Has open access come of age ?

Jun 22, 2011

‘Open Access comes of age’ was the headline in a recent issue of Nature News, the article reporting a recent study published in Public Library of Science One, that found that the number of articles in freely accessible journals is growing at a rate of 20%...

Aims and objectives: BHO usability case study

Jun 17, 2011

Goal Identify mitigating strategies for the problem of information overload across three generic types of site facility: category listings, product listings, and search (form and results). This will enable the project to show an improved return on investment to all of...

Reflections on practice following first interview

Jun 16, 2011

Just finished my first user interview yesterday and a few things came up that I thought other practitioners might benefit from. Reviewing the current state of the site went well – lengthy and detailed discussion, focussed on page outcomes with only a skeletal...