Hullo from Edinburgh. I’ve quite liderally just given my opening keynote at Digital Scholarship: A Day of Ideas which is a day of talks and discussions for staff and PhD students in HSS (Humanities and Social Sciences), to inspire and share ideas for…
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Just a heads up – UCL Faculties of Arts and Humanities and Social and Historical Sciences are advertising three new Research Associate posts in interdisciplinary research in Arts and Humanities. You can read more over at the UCLDH blog if you are inter…
I cannot tell I lie. It was me what memefied my discipline.
I’ve been back to work 6 months since the end of my maternity leave. I’m up to full speed, resumed normal duties including teaching, even taken on more than I had previously. In general, its all great. I’ve followed with interest the many discussions t…
The inaugural Digital Humanities Australasia conference is shaping-up to be a very exciting event. There are a range of excellent international speakers and all the workshops preceding the conference are now confirmed. The registration for the conference is now open. Please register for DHA2012 here: http://aa-dh.org/conference-2/ If you would like to receive a substantial discount [...]
Only two research projects left to talk about in my survey of what I have done previously, and this is the biggy, the blast-from-the-past upon which your star will forever be hung, the doctorate. I cant even say PhD – you get a DPhil from Oxford, which…
Just back from a flying visit to Groningen, where I presented at a Lustrum which celebrated 25 years of Humanities Computing – or “Alfa-Informatica” – there. I was invited to present about Digital Humanities, and my talk can be summed up in one sentenc…
During the past two decades, the Internet and its applications have become one of the richest sources of bibliographical information available to scholars. Through email lists, web-pages, blogs, video and sound-recordings, and publications in various guises, the traces of one’s online life on line can be rich and varied. At perhaps no other time in [...]
Only three projects left to cover in my retrospective look of papers I have published, now they are all going up on UCL’s open access repository. This time, its time to go back, way back, to 2005, when e-science and cyberinfrastructure were all the rag…
Claire Warwick has blogged about the, erm, adminstrative snafu that meant no wine appearedafter her inaugural. So its probably ok to post this pic of the team undertaking the wine run to the nearest supermarket (right to left): Me, Simon Mahony, Andy H…
Image (c) Matt Clayton/UCL Grant Museum. The QRator project in place – the brain-child of Claire Ross. The skulls are not Claire’s, you’ll be relieved to hear.I’m terribly proud and excited to share the news that one of my PhD students, Claire Ross, ha…
The reception to the infographic I put together on Quantifying Digital Humanities has been very positive. In the first 12 hours of it being online, 2600 people had viewed it. At time of writing, 3665 people have looked at it. Which amuses me – many mor…
You may remember I gathered some stats about Digital Humanities. Well, I turned them into an infographic, which is available in full technicolour and much higher res than blogger will allow, over at the UCLDH Flickr account.Wait! You want a print versi…
My next couple of papers come from the VERA project: Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology. VERA was based at the still ongoing dig at Roman Silchester, managed by the Archaeology Department at the University of Reading. The project aimed “t…
Happy New Year, folks!Right, lets resume my posting about previous research. I have only 5 more projects to write about, (well, that had papers emanating from them, I’ll do book chapters after that) and I’m going to do it in reverse chronological order…
