Monthly Archives: April 2009

Roy Rosenzweig fellowship for innovation in digital history

By Craig | Published: April 21, 2009

(Roy Rosenzweig is the founder of the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US. The centre is progressive in both its approach to history and technological innovation. This fellowship may be of interest to you budding digital humanists out there). In 2009, George Mason University and the American Historical [...]

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Digital Futures London 2009

By Craig | Published: April 21, 2009

This workshop is conduced periodically by my colleague at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), Simon Tanner. It is designed for those who manage or wish to undertake digitisation projects.  It is an extensive course and includes topics such as applying for funding, metadata and most importantly, the  sustainability of digital resources (link).

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New Book: Digital Scholarship

By Craig | Published: April 21, 2009

A interesting new book on Digital Scholarship was released in December called ‘Digital Scholarship’; edited by Marta Mestrovic Deyrup. I haven’t ordered, read, and reviewed  this book as yet (it doesn’t come cheap at 57 pounds). What I see as one of the grand challenges of digital resources and scholarship is developing an explicit understanding [...]

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GRIT 02: Illusions of Homogeneity

By Craig | Published: April 20, 2009

Let’s hope that the grand dreams of eResearch aren’t about ‘research homogeneity’ as cultural homogeneity may have become the case in other areas of cultural activity (thanks to Andrew Garton, the performer, for the link). GRIT 02 examines the death of analogue broadcasting by way of readings from numerous sources describing the process of enclosure [...]

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‘I believe in the genital organs of great men and women…’

By Craig | Published: April 20, 2009

The sad death of a great humanist. RIP JG Ballard. (Thanks to Gabriel B for the link)

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Twitter activism

By Craig | Published: April 19, 2009

(picture from the Independent) This story is from the Guardian, then to the Melbourne Age, then to this  blog. I am not sure if this was truly ‘twitter activism’ as the story claims; but still the nativity in which many institutions approach Web 2.0 and its potential for political mobilisation astonished me.  All technology is [...]

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What the #hashtags

By Craig | Published: April 18, 2009

Hash tags (#) are a way of aggregating posts on twitter or facebook or other social software applications.  They are driven by the community and have been used to great effect recently by the G2o protesters in London (#g20) and for the Amazon censorship of gay literature fiasco (#Amazonfail). I would imagine that they should [...]

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