The Centre is a research unit with interests in temporal Geographical Information Systems, the development of electronic research resources, e-Science and Grid technologies. It provides a comprehensive digitisation service to create key e-resources including capture of material, quality assurance, data post-processing and data delivery to user requirements. An image scanning service is also offered. It has a range of specialised scanning equipment (including flatbed, book page and microfilm scanners) and associated software and an experienced staff.
This is an audio recording of the presentation 'Using Computer-Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) in Historical Research: Some methodological issues from the experience of the ‘Health of the Cecils’ Project' given by Caroline Bowden, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK, at the Methods Network expert seminar on history and archaeology: http://www.methodsnetwork.a
The term Information Retrieval (IR) covers a multitude of processes and techniques but is often used in contexts where there is significant input from ‘computing’ (rather than ‘information’) science.
