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New Cabinet Exhibition: 40 Years of Women at The Queen’s College, Oxford
29 March 2019
Authors: Jamie Cameron
2019 sees the 40th anniversary of the admission of female students to The Queen’s College, Oxford. To commemorate this historic event, the College is organizing a range of events and ... Read More New Cabinet Exhibition: 40 Years of Women at The Queen’s College, Oxford
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Remembering the First World War in 10 objects
8 March 2019
Authors: Sarah Griffin
Remembering the First World War in 10 objects is an online exhibition hosted by Cabinet, which has just been released for public viewing. Many of the displayed objects have come to light ... Read More Remembering the First World War in 10 objects
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First public exhibition published on Cabinet in collaboration with Pitt Rivers Museum
7 August 2018
Authors: Jamie Cameron
Thanks to support from the University’s Van Houten Fund and GLAM Digital Strategy, Jamie Cameron and Kathryn Eccles have been working with Philip Grover at the Pitt Rivers Museum ... Read More First public exhibition published on Cabinet in collaboration with Pitt Rivers Museum
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Cabinet Project contributes to new BBC Augmented Reality App
1 March 2018
Authors: Jamie Cameron
Researchers from the Cabinet project, led by OII Research Fellow Dr Kathryn Eccles and supported by Research Assistant Jamie Cameron, have worked with Deputy Head of Education Helen Ward, ... Read More Cabinet Project contributes to new BBC Augmented Reality App
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Cabinet at the UMAC 2017 Conference in Helsinki
10 September 2017
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
Dr Kathryn Eccles gave a short talk about Cabinet to the 17th Annual University Museums and Collections conference, hosted by the University of Helsinki and the University of Jyväskylä. ... Read More Cabinet at the UMAC 2017 Conference in Helsinki
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Everything you need to know about Cabinet in under six minutes…
20 June 2017
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
Last week, the Oxford University Museums Partnership in collaboration with the Digital Learning Network put on a fantastic event on Digital Learning in Museums. The event was focused on ... Read More Everything you need to know about Cabinet in under six minutes…
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More project case studies available
19 April 2016
Authors: Eric Meyer
We’re very pleased that all of the project case studies are now available to read online. We posted before about the first five case studies when we added them ... Read More More project case studies available
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IHR workshop on web archiving
12 November 2015
Authors: Eric Meyer
On 11 November the IHR held a workshop, ‘An Introduction to Web Archiving for Historians‘, for which we welcomed back two old friends from the BUDDAH project as speakers. ... Read More IHR workshop on web archiving
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Digital Ethnography Group Term Card MT 2015
6 October 2015
Authors: Eric Meyer
The term card for the Michaelmas OxDEG Digital Ethnography sessions is out. We look forward to seeing you there! Click the image to download a higher-resolution copy. Note: This ... Read More Digital Ethnography Group Term Card MT 2015
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Project case studies now available
9 July 2015
Authors: Eric Meyer
We are delighted that we can now make available five of the case studies written by researchers across the humanities and social sciences. More will be available via this ... Read More Project case studies now available
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Live tagging art works at the Ashmolean Museum’s LiveFriday event
2 July 2015
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
How does crowdsourcing work? Who gets involved and why? Can non-experts provide useful and high quality tags for important art works? These are some of the questions at the heart ... Read More Live tagging art works at the Ashmolean Museum’s LiveFriday event
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The Object Apothecary at the Ashmolean Museum’s Live Friday event
7 June 2015
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
Our third event at the Ashmolean‘s LiveFriday event in May was an Object Apothecary, dispensing prescriptions for events and experiences in the Museum to aid visitor wellbeing. The Object ... Read More The Object Apothecary at the Ashmolean Museum’s Live Friday event
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The Digital Wonder Cabinet at the Ashmolean Museum’s LiveFriday event
31 May 2015
Authors: Kathryn Eccles
How far back do our modern day practices of collecting, curating and displaying information go? Choosing a Facebook profile picture, creating a gallery of holiday photos, tweeting an image of ... Read More The Digital Wonder Cabinet at the Ashmolean Museum’s LiveFriday event
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Web archives as big data
27 January 2015
Authors: Eric Meyer
Peter Webster, a member of the project team, here reflects on the conference we held at the IHR on 3 December. Peter writes: In early December the project held ... Read More Web archives as big data
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Big Data in the Humanities: lessons from papyrus and Instagram
30 October 2014
Authors: Eric Meyer
This is a cross-posting of an item that our colleague Josh Cowls has just written for his own blog. Thanks to Josh for permission to repost here. I’m ... Read More Big Data in the Humanities: lessons from papyrus and Instagram
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Search results for historical material
22 October 2014
Authors: Eric Meyer
This is a guest post by Jaspreet Singh, a researcher at the L3S Research Center in Hanover. Jaspreet writes: When people use a commercial search engine to search for ... Read More Search results for historical material
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Project progress, an update
15 October 2014
Authors: Eric Meyer
Josh Cowls reflects on recent developments and our goals towards the end of the project: We are already well past the half-way mark of the project, and exciting ... Read More Project progress, an update
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Web archives at the British Library
2 July 2014
Authors: Eric Meyer
This is a post by one of the project team from the British Library. Peter Webster is Web Archiving Engagement and Liaison Manager. Peter writes: At the British Library, ... Read More Web archives at the British Library
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Recreational bugs: the limits of representing the past through web archives
20 June 2014
Authors: Eric Meyer
This is a post from team member Josh Cowls, cross-posted from his blog. Josh is also on Twitter: @JoshCowls. I am in Aarhus this week for the ‘Web Archiving ... Read More Recreational bugs: the limits of representing the past through web archives
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How big is the UK web?
19 June 2014
Authors: Eric Meyer
The British Library is about to embark on its annual task of archiving the entire UK web space. We will be pushing the button, sending out our ‘bots to ... Read More How big is the UK web?
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