Europeana Labs: http://labs.europeana.eu “This new Europeana Labs website is intended to provide all you need to get started using the Europeana APIs. Learn about the data, see what others have created, and find out how to build simple but powerful queries
A Centenary History of Swansea City FC
This project is headed by Dr. Martin Johnes and is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund in conjunction with Swansea University and the Swansea City Supporters’ Trust. The ‘Swans100’ project is exploring, conserving and celebrating the heritage of Swansea City
85,000 historic films available from British Pathe & YouTube
If you have not explored the British Pathe channel on Youtube, take a look. From the British Pathe blog: Newsreel archive British Pathé has uploaded its entire collection of 85,000 historic films, in high resolution, to its YouTube channel. This
The Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: Second Millennium BCE
This work has been the recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, worth £158,220, and is headed by Dr. Kasia Szpakowska with the support of two PhD students, Zuzanna Bennett (Swansea University) and Felicitas Weber (Bonn University), at Swansea
What are the odds?
‘What are the odds? Capturing and exploring data created by online political gambling markets’: Headed up by Dr. Matthew Wall on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project – worth £76,001 – along with his Co-Investigators (Dr Stephen
The early History of the internet in Wales
Dr Rhys Jones’ work is currently being written as a chapter for the Routledge Companion to Comparative Internet Studies (forthcoming in 2015). It focusses on the portrayal of the Internet in the English-language press in Wales, and in the Welsh-language
Twitter and the Welsh Language
Work from Dr. Rhys Jones recently published jointly with D. Cunliffe and Z.R. Honeycutt : ‘Twitter and the Welsh language’, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 14 No. 7, pp. 653-671). The project used an online questionnaire in
National Library of Wales: projects
From: Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru NLW Research leads, or is a partner in, a number of collaborative e-Research projects. Current projects include: Cymru1914Funded by JISC, this is a mass digitization project in collaboration with the special collections and archives of Wales
The National Library of Wales (NLW) was one of 19 leading European research libraries involved in the Europeana Libraries Project, which, in a two-year period from 2011, aimed to provide free access to 5 million digital objects on the European Library and Europeana websites. Reflecting NLW’s commitment to digitisation and allowing
Delighted Beauty
“We want to make digital tools to help us explore world culture, by comparing how the same work is translated differently, over time and space, in the same and different languages. We want to develop text analysis and data visualization tools which will