Month: April 2008

I am at the Community Informatics Research Network conference (CIRN) at Prato in Italy. It is still early into the first day of the conference, but I think that the conference will be fruitful in terms of addressing the question that I came here to deliberate upon. This is how do we design software for…

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The ARCHER project will setup dedicated task forces for a number of NCRIS priority research capabilities to analyse their e Research data and information management needs and requirements, taking special note of existing IT services available and applicable to each research area. Adapting the generic DART middleware/software tools to suit each research area, these dedicated…

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Australia is setting up an Australian National Data Service (ANDS) over the next six months. Here is the document that outlines the service (link)

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Amazon.com changed the way the world buys its books and now it wants to change the way the world reads them.The US-based web retailer has launched a new wireless $US399 ($450) electronic book reader dubbed the Kindle, a name intended to evoke a sense of igniting knowledge. The device is the latest attempt in a…

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Walter Benjamin and the Virtual: Politics, Art, and Mediation in the Age of Global Culture This edition of Transformations focuses on the influence Walter Benjamin continues to have on contemporary thought. It seeks to create a dialogue between contemporary scholars, theorists, and writers from a range of disciplines and practices with Benjamin?s ideas on politics,…

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‘Simile Timeline’ is a Open Source timeline creation package created by David Huynh at MIT. It is designed for display in a Web browser. The ability to create a sophisticated interactive timeline will be useful to many in the arts and humanities, although at present the maker of Simile Timeline assumes that one is familar…

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