Month: November 2004
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Peter Conrad Boyer Lectures
Radio National – Boyer Lectures Peter Conrad is doing this year’s Boyer Lectures on Radio National. The 40 year old lecture series is a commentary by prominant Australians. Conrad is a Professor of Literature at Oxford at was born in Tasmania (he was a Rhodes Scholar like Richard Flanagan). His book ‘Down Home’is about returning…
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Australian E-Humanities Gateway
Australian e-Humanities Gateway The Australian e-Humanities Gateway is designed as a reference point for those involved in or seeking information about projects and events concerned with the use of digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia. It has a section called ‘going digital’ that may assist in terms of standards for online digital works.
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Distributed Networks
A “distributed network” is a term that is used to describe the construction of an art work or the construction of a narrative across a ‘distributed network’ such as the Internet (I have yet to discover what this might mean for an historian). There is an excellent paper online written by Dr Jill Walker of…