Monthly Archives: August 2008

Maura Marx Named First Executive Director of the Open Content Alliance

By Craig | Published: August 27, 2008

The Internet Archive and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today the appointment of Maura Marx as the first Executive Director of the Open Content Alliance (OCA). A search committee representing OCA member institutions made the appointment after an intensive search process. Ms. Marx will move to the OCA from the Boston Public Library, where [...]

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How to stop predictive bookmark crap in Firefox 3

By Craig | Published: August 26, 2008

If anyone else is annoyed by the new feature on Firefox 3 ‘predictive bookmarks’ and want to turn it off, here is a tutorial snipurl.com/3jvr3 You need to type about:config in the URL bar to start off. There is now way to turn the crap feature off in any of the configuration settings. This feature [...]

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Subject: [HASTAC] HASTAC Scholars Forum with Howard Rheingold: Participatory Learning launches Mon., August 25

By Craig | Published: August 26, 2008

Hello everyone, Howard Rheingold will be vlogging on participatory learning with HASTAC Scholars starting August 25 on www.hastac.org. The HASTAC Scholars Program will kick-off the week of August 25th with an inaugural Scholars-led discussion forum exploring the topic of “Participatory Learning” and featuring social networking pioneer Howard Rheingold. The topic coincides with the theme of [...]

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Protocol for image capture

By Craig | Published: August 21, 2008

The Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online project at the University of Cambridge has produced a Protocol for Digital Image Capture which may be of interest to those undertaking digitisation projects (link).

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Program Coordinator (Virtual School)

By Craig | Published: August 20, 2008

NCSA Position Notice — Search #11983 Program Coordinator (Virtual School) Blue Waters Project Office/Education Overview: The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has one Program Coordinator position available. This position will be the coordinator for Educational Initiatives for the Virtual School of Computational Science and Engineering (VSCSE) with the responsibility [...]

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A Workshop on Humanities Applications for the World Community Grid

By Craig | Published: August 20, 2008

On October 6, 2008, IBM will be sponsoring a free one-day workshop in Washington, DC on high performance computing for humanities and social science research. This workshop is aimed at digital humanities scholars, computer scientists working on humanities applications, library information professionals, and others who are involved in humanities and social science research using large [...]

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Computer users are digitizing books quickly and accurately with Carnegie Mellon method

By Craig | Published: August 15, 2008

Computer users are digitizing books quickly and accurately with Carnegie Mellon method http://www.physorg.com/news137941833.html Millions of computer users collectively transcribe the equivalent of 160 books each day with better than 99 percent accuracy, despite the fact that few spend more than a few seconds on the task and that most do not realize they are doing [...]

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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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