What is Aus-e-lit?

November 17, 2008 at 11:17 am · Filed under art, digital humanities, humanities computing

(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 for scholars undertaking research into many aspects of Australian literary heritage and print culture history. The Aus-e-Lit project will enhance and extend the AustLit web portal with (link)

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Obama by the Social Networking Numbers

November 14, 2008 at 3:58 pm · Filed under blogs, political communication, politics, social media

(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 filled with comments, more links, and analysis.  Bottom line:  Of course Obama won!

http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/11/03/snapshot-of-presidential-c…

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JISC Digitisation Projects

November 14, 2008 at 11:35 am · Filed under digital humanities, digitisation

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 education community with the opportunity to engage with a critical mass of previously difficult or impossible to access resources for the first time (link)

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E-research award supports archive of endangered languages

November 13, 2008 at 1:59 pm · Filed under digital humanities, eresearch

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 been recognised with the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) Award in humanities and social sciences (link)

Also see the listing on ICTGuides for this project (link)

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KevinPM.com.au

November 12, 2008 at 10:39 am · Filed under political communication, web2.0

(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 global economy, education, climate change, and the health of Australians, but just as importantly it will enable me to hear your ideas for the direction of the nation.

We’ll also be posting video messages to the site – and here is a link to the first one: www.KevinPM.com.au

There are also links to social network sites like MySpace, Facebook, Twitter and the photo-sharing website Flickr so you can participate in the democratic process in the way you feel most comfortable.

Please feel free to share the new site with your friends and colleagues.

I look forward to talking with you through this new site.

Kevin Rudd

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Digital Preservation Policies Study Now Available

November 11, 2008 at 11:08 am · Filed under digitisation

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 productivity they can bring. The priority in recent years has been on developing e-strategies and infrastructure to underpin electronic access and services and to deliver those benefits. However any long-term access and future benefit may be heavily dependent on digital preservation strategies being in place and underpinned by relevant policy and procedures. This should now be an increasing area of focus in our institutions.

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That awkward teenage phase (Facebook)

November 10, 2008 at 2:36 pm · Filed under social media, web2.0

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 closer to turning a profit (link).

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Obama for President!

November 3, 2008 at 11:28 pm · Filed under web2.0

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