Monthly Archives: December 2008

Wikipedia gets grant to lure new writers

By Craig | Published: December 4, 2008

Wikimedia Foundation says it has won an $US890,000 ($A1.37 million) grant to create ways to make it easier for people to add their knowledge to its widely-used Wikipedia online encyclopedia. US-based Stanton Foundation is giving the non-profit foundation the money to make the website’s writing and editing tools more inviting to people new to making [...]

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Launch of U-Compare: an integrated text mining/natural language processing system

By Craig | Published: December 4, 2008

(Thanks to Tobias Blanke for the link) U-Compare is an integrated text mining/natural language processing system based on the UIMA Framework, which provides access to a large collection of ready-to-use interoperable natural language processing components. U-Compare is currently the world’s largest UIMA component repository. It allows users to build complex NLP workflows via an easy [...]

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Where to for Web 2?

By Craig | Published: December 3, 2008

Internet censorship is back again on the agenda; most notably in Australia where the government plans to install a Chinese-style firewall to block certain sites. Australia has often taken a draconian lead in this area and research and experience suggests that filtering doesn’t work on a state level (for a whole bunch of reasons). Filtering [...]

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GetUp: Help build a movement

By Craig | Published: December 3, 2008

Here is a campaign in Australia at the moment from that great service GetUp. It is to prevent government censorship of the Internet. Thanks to Gabriel B for the link. Only a massive public outcry will make the Government see sense on this issue. That’s why we’re taking a moment to ask you to help [...]

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Transatlantic Digitisation grants

By Craig | Published: December 3, 2008

The JISC and the US’s National Endowment for the Humanities are pleased to announce they will be funding a second round of Transatlantic Digitisation grants. This pre-announcement is being made so that potential applicants can start developing the necessary partnerships. The call will be issued in mid December, with a closing date of the beginning [...]

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What is Flock the social web browser?

By Craig | Published: December 2, 2008

Internet users spend a lot of time going from one site to the next, keeping up with a variety of friends and interests. Flock pulls all of your favorite people, places and content together in a convenient view and delivers a more personal experience of the web, where its users are more easily connected to [...]

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“SOCIAL COMPUTING IN 2020″ BLUESKY INNOVATION COMPETITION

By Craig | Published: December 1, 2008

The University of California Transliteracies Project and UC Santa Barbara Social Computing Group announce the “Social Computing in 2020″ Bluesky Innovation Competition.” What will social computing technologies and practices be like in the year 2020? ELIGIBLE: Undergraduate or graduate students anywhere in the world. AWARDS: 1st prize, $3000 USD; 2nd prize, $1000, 3rd prize, $500. [...]

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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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