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Deluge

Managing the data deluge

01 Nov 2010

A project at Cambridge University Library is developing services and resources to help academics manage their digital data.

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Ski jump, Alfred Hugh Fisher, 1867-1945

Digital Cambridge takes off

01 May 2008

Are you keen to make your research more widely visible or store and preserve your digital material?

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Cinema

Celebrating cinema, from 1895 to the digital age

01 May 2008

Why have writers been so fascinated by cinema? What role might this 19th-century invention play in the digital age?

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Winsor and Newton catalogue with painted samples

Gems of colour: pigments of the ‘Colourmen’

08 Feb 2008

Dragon’s Blood, Purple of Cassius and Scarlet Lake – all pigments concocted by the 19th-century 'Colourmen' of Winsor & Newton artists’ suppliers...

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A version of Shahnama: a battle between Iran and Turan

Bringing together the Book of Kings

08 Feb 2008

The Shahnama Project is building a powerful online resource that will stimulate research and interest in Persian cultural history.

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Dictionary

Defining words

01 Sep 2007

Two very different projects in the University have at their heart the ancient craft of lexicography: the art of compiling and editing dictionaries...

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Duke of Buckingham’s Letter to the University of Cambridge, 1626

Opening the treasure chest

01 Oct 2006

Cambridge is leading the way in Resource Enhancement projects in the UK, opening up its unique and valuable collections to scholars worldwide, as...

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