Le mardi 8 juillet 2014 se tiendra à Lausanne la première assemblée générale (AG) d’Humanistica, l’association francophone des humanités numériques/digitales. Cette AG se tiendra sur l...
On the occasion of the First World War commemorations, Masters of Modern European History students at the University of Luxembourg are using Twitter to recount, day after day, the twists and turn...
The Humanities and Social Sciences are a vital component of human culture and offer an essential insight into the world in which we live. The Digital Humanities reflect the transition of the Hum...
Les deux derniers jours, j’ai participé à un cycle de discussions autour des Humanités numériques, cycle organisé par le Deutsches Historisches Institut à Paris et qui est à sa cinquièm...
Three weeks ago, my university launched a new publications server called ORBilu, which replaced the old one, publications.uni.lu. The reasons for this change are quite evident: the old server con...
On February 7, 2013 an UGR Symposium on eLearning took place at the University of Luxembourg at Campus Walferdange. Bob Reuter invited Agnès Prüm (about Moodle), Benoît Majerus (about Twitter)...
This is the fourth post that I publish on a Twitter experiment I did last year at the Université libre de Bruxelles (here, here and here). Yesterday I was invited to speak at a symposium enti...
After my first THATCamp in Luxembourg in March 2012, I quite enthusiastically went to THATCamp Paris. As the Master in European Contemporary History tries to go digital, I hoped to get new ideas ...
My university is looking for an Associate Professor/Professor in Digital History. Thanks to René Leboutte and the CVCE, the Digital Humanities had been present in Luxembourg for some years...
The Master in European Contemporary History at the University of Luxembourg gets a “digital” touch. There is a new logo “(De)coding Europe” indicating the aim to de- and reconstruct the n...
While googling ‘Google Scholar Metrics’ for my post two weeks ago, I discovered Microsoft Academics. As with other project such as Bing Maps, Microsoft tries to compete with Google. And as Go...
At the DHLU Symposium 2012, I complained in a tweet that there was no equivalent to Zotero for managing my archives. Marin Dacos from openedition.org told me of a product developed by the Central...
Google proposes a new ranking for scientific journals based on Google Scholar, called Google Scholar Metrics (GSM)1. It establishes a slightly different image from the one created by Thomson Reut...
Together with 18 other colleagues and Cléo/OpenEdition.org, we launched a survey to map the Digital Humanities in the world, excusez du peu. This project has to be put in a larger context: in au...
My last week was entirely dedicated to Digital Humanities, first with the DHLU Symposium 2012 and than with the THATCamp Luxembourg/Trier. Impossible to resume the f...