Forum: Source Criticism in the Digital Age. Ancillary historical skills as an essential competency for historical scholarship and associated disciplines

"The ability to decipher the written and material sources of the past, and to bring those findings to bear on one’s own questions, is an essential prerequisite for all historically informed disciplines – not just for the discipline of History itself, but for related subjects, from Philosophy to Modern Languages, Theology, History of Art and Legal History. The ability to reach independent conclusions, and to make scholarly evaluations of original source material (source criticism) marks the essential difference between an interest in history and scholarly research. [...]"

http://www.hsozkult.de/debate/id/diskussionen-2878

Resources: Newton Papers

"Cambridge University Library holds the largest and most important collection of the scientific works of Isaac Newton (1642-1727). Newton was closely associated with Cambridge. He came to the University as a student in 1661, graduating in 1665, and from 1669 to 1701 he held the Lucasian Chair of Mathematics. Under the regulations for this Chair, Newton was required to deposit copies of his lectures in the University Library. These, and some correspondence relating to the University, were assigned the classmarks Dd.4.18, Dd.9.46, Dd.9.67, Dd.9.68, and Mm.6.50.
[...]."

http://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/collections/newton

Resources: Simplicissimus

"Wir möchten satirische Zeitschriften aus dem vergangenen Jahrhundert neu zugänglich machen. Diese sind nicht allein amüsant, sondern bieten Einsichten in die politische und kulturelle Vorgeschichte unserer Gegenwart. Eine durchgehende Erschließung soll den Zugang zum Inhalt und das Verständnis erleichtern."

http://www.simplicissimus.info/index.php?id=5

Conf.: DiXiT Convention week (The Hague, September 14-18, 2015)

"The DiXiT project is an Initial Training Network funded under the European Commission’s Marie-Curie scheme. In the project a number of high-profile European universities and research institutions work together in training a new generation of digital scholarly editors. [...]"

http://dixit.huygens.knaw.nl/

Resources: Glasgow Digital Library Collections

"The Glasgow Digital Library holds several collections of digitised materials and provides organised access to others. A summary of the main collections is given here:"

 http://gdl.cdlr.strath.ac.uk/gdlcollections.htm

Resources: Cusanus-Portal

"Mit Hilfe des Cusanus-Portals soll das Werk des Kardinals aus Kues sowohl Wissenschaftlern als auch interessierten Laien im Internet zugänglich gemacht und umfassend erschlossen werden.
Das Cusanus-Portal bietet

• den digitalen Volltext der kritischen Ausgabe der ´Opera omnia´, erschlossen durch eine Suchfunktion,
• eine Vielzahl deutscher und anderssprachiger Übersetzungen, verknüpft mit den lateinischen Texten,
• ein Lexikon zu Leben und Werk des Nikolaus von Kues,
• eine regelmäßig aktualisierte Forschungsbibliografie."

http://www.cusanus-portal.de/

Tools: EEXCESS

"The vision of EEXCESS is to push high-quality content from the so-called long tail to platforms and devices which are used every day. Instead of navigating a multitude of libraries, repositories and databases, users will find relevant and specialised information in their habitual environment."

 http://eexcess.eu/

Digital Edition: The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot

"The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project has prepared a comprehensive edition of the nearly 10,000 letters to and from Talbot (1800-1877), the Wiltshire polymath best known for his invention of photography. Draft transcriptions of nearly all the letters were posted by September 2003 and these are now being further annotated and edited."

http://foxtalbot.dmu.ac.uk/index.html