Monthly Archives: April 2008

What is the OGSA-DAI project?

By Craig | Published: April 30, 2008

The aim of the OGSA-DAI project is to develop middleware to assist with access and integration of data from separate sources via the grid. The project was conceived by the UK Database Task Force and is working closely with the Open Grid Forum DAIS-WG. OGSA-DAI is funded as one of three OMII-UK sites which together [...]

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Visual Arts Data Service

By Craig | Published: April 28, 2008

Students and academics looking for visual arts images now have online access to a stunning collection of over 100,000 images with the launch of www.vads.ac.uk. The website has been developed by VADS (the Visual Arts Data Service) which re-branded and re-launched itself earlier this month and contains collections as diverse as the National Inventory of [...]

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Old Bailey opens its unseen files

By Craig | Published: April 27, 2008

The long arm of the law now stretches across time: from tomorrow, the transcripts of every trial heard at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 can be read online, free of charge. The records of more than 210,000 criminal trials held from shortly after the Great Fire of London until just before the Great [...]

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Colleges, universities and the digital challenge

By Craig | Published: April 23, 2008

(From the Guardian Education Supplement) Academic libraries are changing faster than at any time in their history. Information technology, online databases, and catalogues and digitised archives have put the library back at the heart of teaching, learning and academic research on campus. This supplement starts with the expectations of young learners. The Google Generation Report, [...]

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Well, I’ll be googled

By Craig | Published: April 21, 2008

(This is from a Journalist friend on mine writing in the Melbourne Sun) http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23562498-5000117,00.html James Norman April 19, 2008 12:00am THERE comes a time when it is worth taking a step back and reflecting on the depths of stupidity to which we as a race are sinking. I had such a moment of cynical epiphany [...]

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New on ICTGuides

By Craig | Published: April 18, 2008

ICT Guides is a service offered by the Centre for eResearch at King’s College in London (CeRch). It seeks to promote the use of ICTs in research and learning through cataloging digital arts and humanities projects along with the tools and methods they employed. A number of new projects have been added to ICT Guides: [...]

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Digital Darwin

By Craig | Published: April 17, 2008

90,000 new pages of work connected with Darwin have gone online for the first time. Guardian science correspondent James Randerson gives you a tour of the Darwin treasure trove (link) Also see the ICT Guides entry for this project. http://ahds.ac.uk/ictguides/projects/project.jsp?projectId=875

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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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