Fundación PrÃncipe de Asturias
The Prince of Asturias Foundation was created in 1980 by the Spanish heir to the throne in order to recognise the work of the people who contribute to "mankind's cultural heritage". The foundation is mainly known for its awards, which every year are given to individuals or groups within eight categories: "Communication and Humanities", "Arts", "Technical and Scientific Research", "Social Sciences", "International Cooperation", "Letters", and "Sport", and "Concord". The awards have since then be
Search user interfaces
This is the website of a 2009 Cambridge University Press book on search design, possibly one of the most critical design issues of our age. 'Search User Interfaces' is freely available online in full-text form. The book by Marti Hearst examines the design of search interfaces across a range of platforms and delivery methods. Chapters include: 'Design of Search User Interfaces'; 'Evaluation of Search User Interfaces'; 'Presentation of Search Results'; 'Information Visualization for Search Interfa
Digital history
'Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting The Past on The Web' (2005) is a free ebook, published online by the Center for History and New Media. The book is cleanly designed in HTML, and is easy to navigate. Chapters include: 'Designing for the History Web'; 'Building an Audience'; 'Collecting History Online'; 'Owning the Past?' and 'Preserving Digital History', among others. A 355-page print version of the book (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005) is also availabl
Slovo-ASO project: towards a digital library of South Slavic manuscripts
Slovo: Towards a Digital Library of South Slavic Manuscripts is the website of an international project which aims to: increase cooperation between academic institutions studying medieval Slavic monastic culture; develop a website on Balkan literary heritage; create internationally agreed standards for the electronic publishing, description and encoding of medieval Slavic manuscripts. Pages on individual monasteries offer all or some of the following: an overview of monastery history; a descript
World wide web of humanities (WWoH)
This Web page from the JISC Digitisation Programme details the work done by academics at the University of Oxford and at the Internet archiving bodies - Hanzo and the Internet Archive - to establish comprehensive collections of archived humanities research websites on the First World War and the Second World War. This work was done in an effort to demonstrate a framework for 'e-Humanities' (also called Digital Humanities or Humanities Computing) research using available open source tools and tec
Creative investment : arts and humanities research and the ‘innovation economy’
This Web page outlines a series of AHRC-funded workshops held in 2009 aimed at exploring the contribution of research to innovation and creativity, by bringing together practitioners, researchers and policy makers from disciplines across the arts, humanities, social sciences and creative industries.
Kultur project
Kultur was a JISC-funded online project, which created a... "working model of a sustainable institutional repository for research output in the visual and applied arts", the Kultur Demonstrator. The website contains a full set of PDF reports on the progress and outcomes of the project, along with details of the staff involved, and links to the original JISC description of the project. This may be an interesting resource for those considering the ways in which academic online repositories and arc
Storia e futuro : rivista di storia e storiografia
"Storia e Futuro: Rivista di storia e storiografia" ["History and Future: Journal of history and historiography"] is an online journal dedicated to the study of history and historiography. The journal focusses on the social, economical, political and cultural changes of contemporary societies. Based at the Department of Historical Studies of the University of Bologna, the publication draws on the contributions of established historians and academics. The journal is subdivided into several sectio
Istituto ellenico di studi bizantini e postbizantini di Venezia
The website of the Venice Hellenic Institute makes available online valuable resources relating to the history of the Orthodox community resident in the lagoon city. From the Byzantine era onward, Greek merchants were active in Venice. In 1498 a Greek Orthodox Confraternity was founded with the approval of the Venetian authorities. The site offers information on the Hellenic Institute, established in 1953, its library, archive and museum of icons. A selection of devotional images can be viewed o
Textos e pretextos
Textos e pretextos is a literary journal published by the Camões Institute, Lisbon, with the aim of providing an outlet for academic criticism on the most important characters of Lusophone authors. First launched in 2002, it has brought out bi-annual volumes focusing upon either individual authors or important theoretical concepts. Issue number 2 (2003) focuses on the concept of the mirror, while number 7 (2005) discusses the work of Chico Buarque. Each issue assists study by a detaile
Francis Lodwick: a working bibliography
'Francis Lodwick: a working bibliography' is a website created by the Centre for Early Modern Studies at the University of Oxford. The site's aim is to provide more detail about the seventeenth-century linguist and philosopher Francis Lodwick and to enable further study of his works in the absence of other detailed bibliographies. The site gives: a brief biography of Lodwick; a short explanation of the rationale behind the bibliography; and the bibliography itself. This resource sheds some li
Language convergence and grammatical borrowing database
The database contains records each representing a language in contact with another language or group of languages. Each record contains several layouts, each layout is devoted to a particular domain of structure. The records provide information about the structural categories, domains, and sub-categories that are affected by contact, the type of contact influence (matter or pattern replication), and text fields provide glossed examples of structures that are believed to have emerged as a result
Acquisition of Welsh syntax
This resource is available via the Oxford Text Archive (OTA) website, and can be downloaded as a zipped file in AIFF format. It is necessary to apply for approval from the OTA before download, and a link is provided to the terms and conditions of use, and a form to apply for permission. The project aims to gather a substantial corpus of natural speech from children in the early stages of acquisition of Welsh as a first language, and consists of weekly tapes of 30-45 minutes over 9 months. The
Discourse context and the processing of contrastive focus in silent reading
This is a downloadable resource available from the Oxford Text Archive (OTA) website as a zipped .sav file. It is necessary to apply for approval from the OTA before download, and a link is provided to the terms and conditions of use, and a form to apply for permission. The digital resource contains three files of eye fixation data for three experiments investigating the influence of prior discourse context on focus identification during on-line sentence comprehension. In each experiment, parti
Revistas Colegio de México
The 'Colegio de México' has made available a portal which brings together all its academic periodic publications. Although subscriptions to hard copy versions are still an option, full-text electronic contents for all journals can be accessed and downloaded for free here. Contributions have occasionally been published in English, but users should bear in mind most of the contents are in Spanish only. Free text searches are available (within the whole collection or just one journal at a time). P
Wollaton Library collection
This website describes the Wollaton collection at the University of Nottingham, and the Heritage Lottery Fund and AHRC funded work to conserve, catalogue and provide access to and raise awareness of this important manuscript collection. The collection comprises "a rare and significant corpus of medieval textual and material artefacts", which once formed part of the Willoughby family's collections at Wollaton Hall, Nottingham. The collections significant is found in ten medieval manuscripts "whic
[ROYAL: Illuminated manuscripts of the Kings and Queens of England]
This Web page reports on an AHRC-funded project centred around research into the British Library's collection of 1,950 manuscripts donated by King George II in 1757. Maintained as a collection (labelled 'ROYAL') since this time, they represent the largest surviving collection of medieval illumination and painting owned by English monarchs. The grant will enable the first ever major research project into the collection, resulting in an exhibition in 2011, as well as being added to the Library's o
RBM : a journal of rare books, manuscripts, and cultural heritage
'RBM: A Journal of Rare Books, Manuscripts, and Cultural Heritage' (formerly Rare Books and Manuscripts Librarianship, RBML) is a full-text online journal, published twice a year by the U.S. Association of College and Research Libraries. RBM journal issues from 1998 to 2008 are freely available online. Articles are published as PDF files. Some journal issues are themed - for instance the Spring 2008 "Ephemera" issue, with article titles such as: 'The Long-Term Significance of Printed Ephemera' a
Rabo art collection
Dedicated to conserving Dutch cultural heritage, the Netherlands bank Rabo has provided this website on their art collecting policy. As well as a general overview for each section, this site provides information on each of the artists represented in their collection - although some information is only available in the Dutch language. This site also provides information on art projects that they sponsor, as well as details about their loans policy. An online virtual tour of their collections c
Theoretical and conceptual advances in the cognitive neuroscience of self representation : represent
Theoretical and Conceptual Advances in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Self Representation: Representations of the Minimal Self in Self-Narrative is a research project based at the University of Central Florida. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the European Foundation, the project is an interdisciplinary collaboration between philosophers, psychologists, psychiatrists, and cognitive neuroscientists in the USA and Europe. It considers connections between the 'minimal self' (which inclu
