Deluge

Managing the data deluge

01 November 2010

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

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Frontispace of Vaugelas's Remarques sur la langue française (1647)

Le bon usage: using French correctly

01 January 2010

The purity and linguistic correctness of the French language has been closely guarded by the French for centuries. Professor Wendy Ayres-Bennett is exploring the reasons behind this national preoccupation.

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Ben Ezra Synagogue

Treasures of the genizah

01 September 2009

How did an Egyptian storeroom come to hold a thousand years worth of manuscript fragments and why are they one of the greatest literary treasures ever found?

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Model embryo making

Making visible embryos

04 January 2009

A new online exhibition explores the visual culture of embryology as part of a research initiative on the history of reproduction.

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River Dicle from Hasankeyf

Endangered dialects of Aramaic

01 September 2008

Current estimates suggest that a language dies every two weeks. Here, Geoffrey Khan describes the documentation of a group of dialects before they are lost forever.

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