If you like Archives, Histoty and times gone by, this is a fasinating read.
New digital humanities approaches are transforming the ways in which historians and other humanities scholars conduct research.
This spring, I am offering a series of workshops on “New Digital Humanities Approaches to Renaissance Studies: Manuscript Imaging and Research Outsourcing in the Florentine Archives using the Bía Platform” on behalf of the Medici Archive Project. The workshops offer a discussion of some of the new possibilities of digital humanities research through a demonstration of capabilities of the Medici Archive Project’s new Bía platform.
The Medici Archive Project describes the Bía platform on its website:
Over the past two years the IT team at the Medici Archive Project has been working on developing a new innovative digital platform, with generous support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. At the 2012 Renaissance Society of America conference in Washington DC, MAP unveiled the new platform, which is called BIA. The name means “force” in…
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