Monthly Archives: October 2006

Dialogue Needed for Internet’s Future

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

The Internet Governance Forum, set up by the United Nations as a multi-stakeholder space for dialogue, will meet for the first time on 30 October in Athens (from BBC).

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Warning Over ‘broken up’ net

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

The internet could one day be broken up into separate networks around the world, a leading light in the development of the net has warned (from BBC)

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Digital Humanities seminar series at King’s College, London

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

(from the discussion list, Humanist. This will give you some idea of the projects underway in the Digital Humanities in Europe) This is to announce the forthcoming events of the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for 2006-7, a description of which follows. All events take place at 5.30 pm in Senate House, Malet [...]

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What is Digital Humanities?

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

This is a forum that was on earlier this year. Willard McCarty is from Kings College London, a leader in the field of Digital Humanities. I think that the issue that McCarty is stressing is that Arts Informatics is a practice; ie. it requires an advancement of both the technologies that are useful for the [...]

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History and Hypertext

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

(Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems was in Sydney this month talking about ‘History and Hypertext’…what I did my MA on in 1998). SOME THOUGHTS ON HYPERTEXT AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Mark Bernstein At times, hypertext has seemed incompatible with historical narrative, either because non-sequential writing is at odds with understanding cause and effect, or because hypertext [...]

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A Digital Humanities umbrella?

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

(via Chris Chester at the University of Sydney from October of last year. I don’t think that the proposal went anywhere). Is there any value in raising a Digital Humanities umbrella in Australia? Next Thursday 6-8pm, Arts Informatics and RIHSS at the University of Sydney are hosting a talk by Harold Short, and a public [...]

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NCRIS The National Collaborative Research Infastraucture Strategy

By Craig | Published: October 30, 2006

(This is a project that was proposed for Australia to promote the ‘e-humanities’, but unfortunatly it didn’t get up). NATIONAL COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH INFRASTRUCTURE STRATEGY SUBMISSION TO THE SYSTEMIC INFRASTRUCTURE SUB-COMMITTEE OCTOBER 2005 This is a submission on systemic infrastructure needs of the broad humanities and creative arts research communities from a consortium consisting of leading [...]

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    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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