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UK funding comes to an end

There is now no UK funding for research infrastructure in literary and linguistic subject areas. The AHRC and JISC ceased funding for the OTA as part of the Arts and Humanities Data Service a year ago....

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CLARIN Short Guides

CLARIN has published a series of Short Guides to explain in a concise and accessible way various aspects of the CLARIN technical architecture CLARIN Short Guides explain in a concise and accessible way...

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e-Humanities at IEEE e-Science

This year, for the first time, there will be an e-Humanities track at the IEEE e-Science Conference, to be held in Oxford from the 9th to the 11th of December 2009. This year, for the first time, there...

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CHAIN - Coalition of Humanities and Arts Infrastructures and Networks

Several leading international networks, infrastructures and planning initiatives working with digital technologies in the Humanities resolved to form CHAIN, the Coalition of Humanities and Arts...

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Enhancing the Oxford Text Archive

OTA staff are currently implementing an ambitious set of upgrades to the repository. OTA staff in OUCS and the OeRC are currently implementing an ambitious set of upgrades to the repository to promote...

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Job opportunity in Oxford

The Oxford e-Research Centre is recruiting a research assistant on a 6-month contract to work on developing interoperability of the OTA and other repositories involved in the CLARIN project. The Oxford...

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Welcome to new staff at the OTA

Jens Stegmann joins the OTA to work on developing new online access services to allow the OTA to work within the CLARIN infrastructure. Jens joins us from the IDS in Mannheim, and will be working here...

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e-Infrastructure Initiative in the UK

The report from the Expert group on UK's e-infrastructure is a welcome recognition of the current dangers and opportunities. If the recommendations are adopted swiftly, there may still be time to...

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OTA at the D-SPIN Summer School

Martin Wynne delivered the keynote presentation on 'The Humanites Virtual Research Environment of the Future' to launch the inaugural D-SPIN Summer School in Bad Homburg on 30th August 2010. D-SPIN is...

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Legally Safe Practices for Sharing Language Resources

The OTA participated in a workshop at the Austrian Academy of Sciences on 'Legally Safe Practices for Sharing Language Resources', where issues relating to dealing with legal obstacles concerning the...

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OTA makes First Folio Shakespeare ebooks available via iTunes U

Shakespeare's entire First Folio, including original spelling, is being made available to download for free today, as Oxford University becomes one of the world's first universities to add ePubs to...

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JISC funding for the 'Discovering Babel' project

The OTA has bidded successfully for funds from the recent call from JISC for Infrastructure for Education and Research. The project, named 'Discovering Babel' will push forward technologies and...

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CLARIN Federated Search Workshop

The latest work in the Oxford Text Archive to enhance and share our data was presented by Jens Stegmann and Martin Wynne, at a workshop on May 9th 2011 at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics...

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Do we still need language corpora?

The Oxford Text Archive is organizing a debate to be held at the 2011 ICAME conference in Oslo, on the motion 'Language corpora are no longer necessary for linguistic research'. Should we still spend...

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How to make language resources discoverable

A workshop will be held in Oxford on Friday 24th June as part of the JISC-funded project 'Discovering Babel' to discuss how researchers in the UK can contribute to building more effective mechanisms...

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OTA at Corpus Linguistics 2011

Martin Wynne will be attending Corpus Linguistics 2011 in Birmingham this week. The event is the major conference for corpus linguistics in the UK, and perhaps globally, and takes place every two...

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Discovering Babel comes to an end

The JISC-funded 'Discovering Babel' project ended this summer. Follow the progress and lessons learned via the blog posts, listed on the OTA 'Projects' page.

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Network of Centres meeting

The Network of Expert Centres in the Digital Humanities in Britain and Ireland will meet at University College, London on 14th September, with Martin Wynne of the Oxford Text Archive representing the...

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Digital infrastructures for the Humanities

A report from the European Science Foundation assesses Research Infrastructures (RIs) in Humanities research. The report argues that while there are many sophisticated RIs in other domains of science...

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CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium founded

The CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) was formally created on the 29th February 2012. This is a key stage in starting the construction of a pan-European network of services to...

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Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure

OTA contributed to an exciting symposium at the Huygens Institute in the Hague as part of the InterEdition initiative to promote the interoperability of the tools and methodology we use in the field of...

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More ECCO texts online

Another tranche of 179 texts from the Eighteenth Century Collections Online text creation partnership are now in the public domain and are available from the OTA catalogue.

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Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School

Save the date! From the 2nd - 6th of July 2012 DHOXSS delegates visiting the University of Oxford, UK, will be introduced to a range of topics suitable for researchers, project managers, research...

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Keynote speech at ACRH2

Martin Wynne of the Oxford Text Archive will be the keynote speaker at the second Workshop on Annotation of Corpora for Research in the Humanities, to be held in Lisbon on November 29 2012. The call...

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The OTA in 2013

The OTA looks forward to an exciting 2013 - see Martin Wynne's blog.

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DIgital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2013

Save the date - the OTA will be contributing to the DH@OX Summer School again, 8-12 July 2013.

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Valentine's Day offerings from the Oxford Text Archive

This year on Valentine's Day, come to the Oxford Text Archive and search for love... Come to the Oxford Text Archive and search for love. You will find the love poems of Horace (catalogue number 2419)...

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OTA resources in the Virtual Language Observatory

The resources in the Oxford Text Archive can be found in the Virtual Language Observatory, which brings together descriptions of language resources available throughout Europe. The resources in the...

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Direct downloads of OTA legacy resources

Users can now directly access 586 legacy resources in the OTA without submitting an email address for authentication.

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BNC Baby now available for download

The BNC Baby, a balanced 4-million word subset of the British National Corpus, is now available for download from the Oxford Text Archive.

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BNC now available from the OTA

The British National Corpus (BNC) can now be downloaded for free from the OTA. See more at Martin Wynne's blog

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Happy Valentine's Day from the OTA

On illicit love Written among the ruins of Godstow nunnery, near Oxford, by John Brand

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Vacancy: CLARIN Executive Director

CLARIN seeks a dynamic new leader Applications are invited for the post of Executive Director of the CLARIN European Research Infrastructure Consortium. CLARIN is a pan-European research infrastructure...

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CLARIN-NeDiMAH workshop

Exploring Historical Sources with Language Technology: Results and Perspectives Applications are invited to participate in a workhop to be held in the Hague 8-9 December 2014. The deadline is 3...

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Grabbing the TCP texts

Scripts are available to help users to grab all of the Text Creation Partnership texts listed in the Oxford Text Archive.

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