Monthly Archives: December 2008

Project Manager, Essex

By Craig | Published: December 19, 2008

Application Deadline: 18/01/2009 Integrated Census Microdata (I-CeM) Project This major new project is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council and located in the Department of History at the University of Essex, in collaboration the UK Data Archive. In conjunction with key commercial partners, the project will create an enhanced census data collection for [...]

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What is Geoparser?

By Craig | Published: December 17, 2008

The GeoParser demonstrator is a tool that allows users to upload web pages, text files, metadata records, xml etc., which can then be parsed for geographical names. These are then checked against GeoCrossWalk to obtain explicit geographical coordinates for the location referred to , in order to “geo-tag” the uploaded document. In other words, it [...]

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Google: global search trends

By Craig | Published: December 14, 2008

Google has released some of its search results. Releasing results like this is extremely important as it gives citizens access to some of the ‘meta-narratives’ that influence our lives. If large corporation such as Google only have acesss to these ‘meta-narratives’; it means that they can manipulate these trends and patterns to their own advantage [...]

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Bloggers pan Government’s ‘e-democracy’ bid

By Craig | Published: December 11, 2008

Prominent Australian bloggers have lashed the Federal Government over its first attempt at public consultation via a blog, which has already been hijacked by critics of its plan to censor the internet. In a move dubbed “e-democracy”, Communications Minister Stephen Conroy and Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner announced this week they would be taking feedback from [...]

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Keynote speakers announced: Digital Humanities 2009

By Craig | Published: December 4, 2008

The speakers for Digital Humanities 2009 have been announced.  And what a refreshing change to the Digital Humanities agenda. The first is Lev Manovich, Professor of New Media at UCSD, who wrote the brilliant ‘Language of New Media’ back in 2001. And the second is Chrsitine Borgman, Professor of Information Studies at UCLA who wrote [...]

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Grant Funding Call: JISC Information Environment and e-Research

By Craig | Published: December 4, 2008

The Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) invites institutions to submit proposals for projects in two areas of JISC activity; the Information Environment (IE) and Support for Research. In summary, there is a total of £10,600,000 available in grant funding. Projects vary in length from 6 months to 3 years, and from £30,000 to £1,350,000 in [...]

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News from the Office of the Digital Humanities (US)

By Craig | Published: December 4, 2008

1) Guidelines for Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Would your institution like to host a summer training institute or seminar on a topic in the digital humanities? If you have some local expertise, why not share with your colleagues from around the country? Deadline for this program is February 18th and the [...]

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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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