Monthly Archives: August 2007

eIUS: e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models

By Craig | Published: August 29, 2007

The UK is entering a period in which online collaborative environments, distributed computing and data resources, advanced analytical tools, together with support and training, are becoming readily available for researchers in all disciplines. Within some subject areas, for example, high-energy physics and bioinformatics, e-infrastructure already underpins everyday work; whilst other subject areas are still investigating [...]

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What is e-Framework?

By Craig | Published: August 29, 2007

The e-Framework for Education and Research is an initiative by the UK’s Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and Australia’s Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST). The primary goal of the e-Framework is to facilitate technical interoperability within and across education and research through improved strategic planning and implementation processes (link)

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Research Portals in the Arts and Humanities

By Craig | Published: August 20, 2007

The RePAH final report concluded that arts and humanities researchers would find most useful a managed research environment that offers: Workflow Management tools that give the researcher greater personal control over digital project resources, especially more evolved bookmarking features and some form of automated copyright management system to facilitate the growing concern with usage permission [...]

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What is HASTAC?

By Craig | Published: August 15, 2007

A consortium of humanists, artists, scientists, social scientists, and engineers from universities across the country, HASTAC (“Haystack”) is committed to new forms of collaboration across institutions, disciplines, and communities to promote creative uses of technology. Since 2003, we have been developing tools for multimedia archiving and social interaction, gaming environments for teaching, innovative educational programs [...]

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What is Mashable.net?

By Craig | Published: August 15, 2007

Mashable is a news site for the social networking movement (link).

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Only one party’s in the game for attention in cyberspace

By Craig | Published: August 15, 2007

From the Melbourne Age Kevin Rudd has a genuine presence on the web. The Coalition seems to be lagging, writes Catherine Deveny. LET’S be honest here, it’s a bit hard to sex up Kevin Rudd. Sure, he’s probably a good bloke. Actually, he must be a good bloke seeing that Howard and his mates have [...]

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FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M GRANT TO DEVELOP OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR BUILDING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION COMMUNITIES

By Craig | Published: August 15, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Fedora Commons: Sandy Payette (607) 255-9222, payette@cs.cornell.edu http://www.fedora-commons.org Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation: Greg Nelson (415) 561-7427, greg.nelson@moore.org FEDORA COMMONS AWARDED $4.9M GRANT TO DEVELOP OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE FOR BUILDING COLLABORATIVE INFORMATION COMMUNITIES (Ithaca, New York, August 10, 2007) – Fedora Commons today announced the award of a four year, $4.9M grant [...]

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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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