A data-centred ‘virtual laboratory’ for the humanities: Designing the Australian Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) service.

This article looks at the design and architecture proposed for the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI), a national ‘virtual laboratory’, which is being developed as part of the Australian government’s National e-Research Collaboration Tools and Resources (NeCTAR) programme. The article focuse...

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Publicado en:Literary & Linguistic Computing Vol. 28; no. 4; pp. 576 - 582
Autor principal: Burrows, Toby
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Dec2013
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