From a post on lifehacker, aboutHow to Deal with Distractions in a Web Worker’s World,comes this fantastic cartoon (which came my way via @expertsleepers).I need to give this to all my MA students who are wading through writing their dissertations righ…
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My 6 monthly royalty statement came in from OUP for Image to Interpretation today. A cheque enclosed! for the princely sum of £10.23!… but what is interesting about this is that most of the revenue was my (tiny) cut of the proceeds made from selling…
I said in the post below that I would post more details about the Decoding Digital Humanities reading group who will be meeting in Melbourne, Australia, on thurs 29th July, at the Prince Alfred Hotel, 191 Grattan Street, 5.30- 7.30pm. More information …
#dh2010 This # will be used on Twitter and blog posts for the Digital Humanities 2010 Conference (including workshops; 5-10 July)
Thanks to Gabriel B for the information…(link THATCamp; London) dataset format(s) size availability license Archimedes Palimpsest transcriptions XML: TEI P5 5.6 MB http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net/ CC-BY Archimedes Palimpsest images TIFF appro…
(This new seeding project has just been accepted for funding from the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne. Led by VeRSI and myself, it is a short project with results available towards the end of the year or ea…
I am back in Melbourne after attending the Digital Humanities conference at Kings College London and in my short experience of the event; it was by far the best. I get the feeling that the field is at a pivotal moment in its history and without continu…
Melissa Terras giving the keynote speech at the DH2010 conference, 10th July 2010 (link)
We’ve given awards to 12 projects led by 23 researchers at 15 universities: Steven Abney and Terry Szymanski, University of Michigan. Automatic Identification and Extraction of Structured Linguistic Passages in Texts. Elton Barker, The Open Unive…
Just a reminded that applications for THATCamp Canberra; the Humanities and Technology Camp (28-29 August), closes on July 23. These are excellent events and I would encourage digital humanists to attend. I just attended THATCamp London and there were …
The UK Times Higher Ed published an article about the closing plenary lecture at the Digital Humanities conference in London. But I feel that there is some miscommunication happened. Something was lost from what the speaker, Dr Melissa Terras, perhaps …
(Opening Address, Digital Humanities 2010) Digital Humanities 2010, King’s College London, 7-10 July, 2010. Members of the VeRSI team attended the Digital Humanities Conference at King’s College London (7-10 July); the annual conference of the Asso…
In conjunction with University College London’s Centre for Digital Humanities, Decoding Digital Humanities is an informal monthly get together in the pub to discuss all things digital in the humanities. This is an opportunity to meet others wor…
Well. Just coming up for air after the excitement that was DH2010.The video of my plenary is available at http://www.arts-humanities.net/, which has been viewed and downloaded (by humans, not bots) around 400 times in the past week.The plenary made the…
Like most folks interested in new media technologies, we got us an iPad as soon as they came out. And it’s great for some things – such as sitting on the sofa and doing some online shopping, reading blogs, etc. You’ve heard all this before. Great…
