Deploying general-purpose virtual research environments for humanities research

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 368, Issue 1925, 2010, Pages 3813-3828

  Blanke, Tobias ^a   Candela, Leonardo ^b   Hedges, Mark ^a   Priddy, Mike ^a   Simeoni, Fabio ^c  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b ISTI CNR   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STRATHCLYDE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital archives; GCube; Humanities; Virtual research environments

Indexed keywords

HUMANITIES COMPUTING;

APPLICATION DOMAINS; DIGITAL ARCHIVES; GCUBE; HETEROGENEOUS INFORMATION; HUMANITIES; HUMANITIES RESEARCH; SPECIFIC TASKS; VIRTUAL RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT;

RESEARCH;

EID: 77956487333     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2010.0167     Document Type: Article

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