Monthly Archives: June 2007

The NINCH Guide to Good Practice in the Digital Representation and Management of Cultural Heritage Materials

By Craig | Published: June 20, 2007

I bet that you have been waiting for a link to this one (link)

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The world’s most hated blogger

By Craig | Published: June 19, 2007

The man known on the internet as “the world’s most hated blogger” is cooling his heels at an undisclosed location near Sydney, working on a way to climb back out of the very deep hole he now finds himself in (link) From the Melbourne Age

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International Database of Digital Humanities Projects

By Craig | Published: June 18, 2007

This project stalled Arts and humanities computing has since its inception been hampered by the lack of an adequate means for collecting and publishing information about activity in the field. Its interdisciplinary scope and methodological nature, coupled with rapid changes in the technology and long undervalued contributions to scholarship, have so far thwarted the development [...]

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Wolfenden50: Sex/Life/Politics in the British World 1945-1969

By Craig | Published: June 15, 2007

2007 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Wolfenden Report, a British government inquiry into homosexuality and prostitution which profoundly shaped public debate on the regulation of these sexualities (and others), in Britain and beyond.Most famously, the Report recommended that homosexual acts between consenting adults in private ought not to be an offence and 2007 also [...]

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Statement from The Russell Group on UCU motion on Israeli boycott

By Craig | Published: June 15, 2007

The Russell Group of the UK’s research-intensive universities today (Wednesday 30 May) strongly condemned the motion passed by the University and College Union for branches to debate the Israeli boycott. Professor Malcolm Grant, Chairman of the Russell Group and President and Provost of UCL, said: ‘We reject outright the call for an academic boycott. It [...]

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DIGITAL ARCHIVE FEVER

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2007

CHArt TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL CONFERENCE London Venue to be confirmed Thursday 8 – Friday 9 November 2007   – FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS -    Museums, galleries, archives, libraries and media organisations such as publishers and film and broadcast companies, have traditionally mediated and controlled access to cultural resources and knowledge. What is the future of [...]

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Socializing Cyberinfrastructure: Networking the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

By Craig | Published: June 12, 2007

Some excellent writing on collaboration here from the journal Cyberinfrastructure Technology Watch. Cyberinfrastructure is called ‘e-science’ in the UK (link)

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