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New Jisc commission to Visualise Medical History

Jisc will shortly be commissioning a project entitled Visualising Medical History as part of the wider work around the UK Medical Heritage Library. This post explains the rationale behind the project and provides practical details. The UK Medical Heritage Library is making 15 million pages of 19th Century medical texts available digitally in one searchable collection for the […]

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Digging into Data Challenge – Funding Call

The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies from the UK, US and Canada.  The challenge that this funding call wishes to confront is what do we do with a million books, images or articles?  How does the huge volume of digitised material effect humanities and social science […]