Monthly Archives: November 2008

What is Aus-e-lit?

By Craig | Published: November 17, 2008

(Thanks to the Arts and Humanities eScience support centre at King’s for the link) The Aus-e-Lit project aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture. AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between the National Library of Australia and twelve Universities. It provides an important resource [...]

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Obama by the Social Networking Numbers

By Craig | Published: November 14, 2008

(from Cathy Davidson HASTAC; thanks to Torsten R for the link) Jeremiah Owyang, whose blog is Web Strategy by Jeremiah, posted these numbers on November 3, his comparative analysis of the social networking of Barack Obama’s campaign and John McCain’s and their relative followers. Pretty interesting! Here’s the link for the blog posting that is [...]

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JISC Digitisation Projects

By Craig | Published: November 14, 2008

Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching and research The JISC Digitisation programme is founded upon the need to build significant e-resources from some of the UK’s greatest collections in a wide variety of formats – sound, images, journals, moving pictures, newspapers and much else. Using the latest technology available, the projects provide the [...]

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E-research award supports archive of endangered languages

By Craig | Published: November 13, 2008

An archival project that aims to preserve ‘endangered languages’ from across Australia and the Pacific region in a massive database has been rewarded with a major e-research award presented to researchers in the University of Melbourne’s School of Languages and Linguistics. The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) project has [...]

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KevinPM.com.au

By Craig | Published: November 12, 2008

(It doesn’t matter what medium; one thing remains true. Assume your audience are idiots!) Dear Craig , As a supporter of the Kevin07 campaign, I wanted you to be the first to hear about my new website: KevinPM.com.au I’ll be using the site to speak frankly with you about the big challenges facing Australia; the [...]

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Digital Preservation Policies Study Now Available

By Craig | Published: November 11, 2008

The JISC are pleased to announce the publication of a study on Digital Preservation Policies which can be downloaded in PDF format from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/jiscpolicyfinalreport.aspx A major business driver in all universities and colleges over the past decade has been harnessing digital content and electronic services and the undoubted benefits in terms of flexibility and increased [...]

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That awkward teenage phase (Facebook)

By Craig | Published: November 10, 2008

From the Guardian. A year ago Mark Zuckerberg was riding high as CEO of the world’s largest social network, Facebook, with his company valued at as much as $15bn (£9.5bn). Twelve months later, things look a little different. Not only are some fans claiming disenchantment with the site but, perhaps more importantly, Facebook appears little [...]

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