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Technological research and support

Units that provide technological support to research and teaching taking place in or governed by members of academic departments; they also engage in research of a technological nature independently, in concert with academic departments, by contract with external organisations or are funded to develop resources on a national level.

1. Center for Computer Analysis of Texts, Pennsylvania (U.S.) [X], provides advice and information in support of humanities research and distribution of its electronic products and byproducts; historically, the main foci of CCAT have included creation (e.g. scanning) and electronic publication (e.g. via gopher) of relevant materials, including some specialized software.
2. Center for Digital Humanities, University of California at Los Angeles (U.S.) [X], seeks to advance the teaching, research, and public service mission of the Humanities Division by the use of computing technology and new media; assists academic projects by locating personnel and funding, discovering partners both inside and outside the university, and managing the projects over time; facilitates use of the Web in teaching.
3. Centre for humanities computing, Göteborg (Sweden) [X], provides support to the faculty, staff and students to use the computer technology within the Humanities, and maintains the computer network (HumLAN), servers and faculty labs.
4. Humanities Computing and Media Centre, Victoria (Canada) [X], an academic centre in the Faculty of Humanities with a faculty director, a laboratory assistant and two programmers. Offers comprehensive services for language learning, ranging from customized software programs developed by the R&D team to audio-visual dubbing; project management; website design; programming; consulting; and workshops on a variety of subjects.
5. Scholarly Technology Group, Brown (U.S.) [X], supports the development and use of advanced information technology in academic research, teaching, and scholarly communication. STG pursues this mission by exploring new technologies and practices, developing specialized tools and techniques, and providing consulting and project management services to academic projects.

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