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Ex archivis: DRH ‘98 in Glasgow

Another piece from the “archives”: a ten year-old report on my first tip to an academic (or para-academic) conference, Digital Resources in the Humanities, at Glasgow University, September 1998, Originally published online in the NDAD Newsletter #4, November 1998.
On September 9th I travelled with Ruth Vyse, the University Archivist, and John Ralph, ULCC’s Computing Services [...]

Ex archivis: Electronic Texts: The Last Word?

Ten years since I wrote this short essay for my computing course at Birkbeck, Autumn 1996. Seems old hat now, and a bit quaint in places (we now have that HHGG: it’s called Wikipedia!) but I think it was good enough in its day. Covering (however briefly) 500 years of history in a short Computing [...]