Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920
Project report. Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, June 2010
I recently attended a project workshop for the ARC funded Founders and Survivors project: http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org Led by Professor Janet McCalman from the University of Melbourne, Associate Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart from the University of Tasmania, …
After a good few years work on this – we are finally ready to launch!:The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre …
After all the excitement of #DH2010, back to business. All being well, I’ll be going on maternity leave in the autumn term, and the advert for teaching cover for my post has just gone up. This is a 16 month teaching post in the Dept of Information Stu…
This is an approximation of what I plan – or hope – to say in my closing plenary speech at Digital Humanities 2010 at King’s College London, June 2010. I’m not one for reading off prewritten speeches, however, so expect diversions and ad-libs …
Could everyone please stop launching blogs and upgrading smartphones and buying airconditioners that are operated across the web? The internet is nearly full.
In approximately 500 days, planet Earth is expected to run out of the unique numbers that identify the world’s networked devices. The numbers are …
US President Barack Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US “national asset”.
Local lobby groups and academics have rounded on the plan, saying that, rather than combat terrorists, it would actually …
From Professor John Unsworth, UIUC, on the CentreNet List
Those interested in digitizing text (whether printed or manuscript, in any language) will benefit from the AccessTEI program just launched by the Text Encoding Initiative, in partnership with Apex Covantage and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program …
(A good blog post from Kathleen Fitzpatrick, an Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies, Pomona College, who has taken up the recent online debate on Open Access Publishing). Thanks to Larry Stillman for the link)
There’s a fascinating exchange around open access publishing and the reasons scholars might resist it …
Here is a reflective and well-argued post from Dr Melissa Terras of UCL. She is one of the Key Notes at this years Digital Humanities conference.
…but the point I am making is this. Our academic discipline does not have the same structure as traditional, more established ones. We do …
The Digital Humanities conference starts at King’s College London on the 7th – 10th July. It promises to be an excellent event this year given the strength of the field at King’s and within the broader UK. There are a number of events around the conference including half and fill …
(this ‘challenge’ looks interesting. It is similar to the MashUp Australia initiative as part of the Government 2.0 agenda. I am attending this so any ideas are welcome).
Announcement: Calling all Developers in the Digital Humanities!
Have you a cool new way to give Humanities researchers access to digital resources? …
That Camp, is a ‘user generated’ conference focussing upon the tools, methods, and theoretical issues within the Digital Humanities. It originates from the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US and has been held in a number of other locations. ‘That Camp’ London …
Tom Scheinfeldt and Dan Cohen have put forward a proposal for an edited book entitled Hacking the Academy, To be written in a week by folks from the Digital Humanities community and beyond. More details here. I thought I would put down some of my thoug…
Meetings are on Fridays at 16:30in room STB9 (Stewart House)Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU*ALL WELCOME*Seminars will be followed by refreshments * Jun 4 _Leif Isaksen (Southampton)_ Reading Between theLines: unearthing structure in …
We officially launched the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities yesterday! James Murdoch, Chairman and CEO of News Corporation gave a brilliant speech with strong opinions on creativity, culture, and online content (which you can read the full text of). T…
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