Humanities computing

http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ You can paste in text in Unicode, the tool will convert to several different codes that you might need for development. This is the above text in decimal code points: 89 111 117 32 99 97 110 32 112 97 115 116 101 32 105 110 32 116 101 120 116 32 105 110 32...
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A Greek Grammar for Colleges I found this site very useful (I have to check Smyth’s grammar for reference purposes and this site is better than Smyth@Perseus). It’s the same XML-text, I suppose, but presented differently. Blogged with the Flock Browser
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Betacode description: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/BetaCode.html Online tools: 1. Sean Redmond’s Greek Font to Unicode converter: http://www.jiffycomp.com/smr/unicode/ CGI based conversion tool, supports cut&paste. 2. Cental (Centre du traitement automatique du langage) Beta Code to Unicode Converter: http://130.104.253.20/beta2uni/ Lets you upload and convert whole files from the TLG CD ROM to Unicode. 3. Michael Neuhold’s greekconverter: http://members.aon.at/neuhold/antike/grkconv.html (inactive?) Java-Applets and downloadable Java-Classes for converting between...
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In my present job I am heavily involved with language description: reading through loads of texts, identifying interesting linguistic features, storing them in a custom-build database. That’s good for some phenomena that you can not easily identify with other means; sometimes you just have to use the computer and scan a large amount of...
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A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the
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A one-hour lecture about “Digital Humanities”, part of the CHUCOL course at the
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Sometimes it is difficult to explain the hype about web 2.0 etc. to students. I have seen this in techorati’s most popular videos: This is a quite brilliant introduction to “Web 2.0″, I am not sure I agree with the last sentence (“change ourselves”) but this is a subject of a different post.
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