Monthly Archives: February 2009

How do you define Humanities Computing / Digital Humanities?

The digital humanities is a set of beliefs, theories, practices, methods, and artifacts associated with the use of digital technologies to support, extend, and transform traditional humanistic fields. I follow Erwin Panofsky’s definition of the humanities as those disciplines concerned with interpreting the “records left by man.” (Sexism not intended.) Among the specific assemblage of [...]

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British Library Holocaust recordings launched online

Marking Holocaust Memorial Day, the latest collection added to the JISC funded Archival Sound Recordings website provides a new tool for Holocaust research and education, available online from the British Library. Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust documents the moving testimonies of Jewish immigrants to Britain, many of whom survived Nazi concentration camps. Over 440 hours [...]

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The Virtual Museum of the Pacific: A Semantic Web-based Content Management System

The Virtual Museum of the Pacific (VMP) is a Rich Internet Application with a Web Services architecture used to manage and navigate 400 objects from the Australian Museum’s (http://www.austmus.gov.au/) Pacific Island collections. This project tests a new means of facilitating access for Indigenous people and researchers to museum-based digital collections whose artefacts are physically distributed [...]

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Redmond Barry 1854 fellowship

The University of Melbourne solicits proposals for its Redmond Barry 1854 fellowship. The fellowship facilitates research by enabling scholars to access the collections of the State Library of Victoria and the University of Melbourne. This programme aims to: promote the library and its support for scholarly activity and research; support research that would benefit from [...]

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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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