Monthly Archives: May 2009

Getting there!

By Craig | Published: May 30, 2009

35 countries but who is counting? View my profile Create your own travel map or travel blog Travel Info at TripAdvisor

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Geo-referencing Digitised Collections

By Craig | Published: May 29, 2009

There are a couple of projects underway here at the Centre for eReseach (CeRch) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) about ‘Geo-referencing’. Geo-referencing is a way of ‘tagging’ digital collections so they can be searched by geographical place names or mapped.  Dr Claire Grover of the Language Technology Group, School of Informatics, [...]

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How to improve your Twitter voice!

By Craig | Published: May 27, 2009

I have to admit that my twitter voice could be a lot better.  I have just started ‘twitting’ and sort of get it, but don’t quite understand how twitter fits into the social world (and who reads it?).  Still, it is comforting to know that so many of my Digital Humanities colleagues have found my [...]

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jill/txt writing with a little help from your friends

By Craig | Published: May 27, 2009

One of the blogs I try and read regularly is by Jill Walker’s from the University of Bergen in Norway .  Jill’s research is within the ‘new media’ field and in large, offers analysis of the use of popular technologies  such as blogs, wikis, and other social software applications within the public sphere (a blog [...]

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Research Assistant in the use of Virtual Research Environments and Social Networking Applications

By Craig | Published: May 26, 2009

(This is a most excellent job working on a project funded under JISC’s VRE programme III). Applications are invited for the full-time post of Research Assistant in the UCL Department of Information Studies to work on LinkSphere: a joint research project with the University of Reading, funded by the JISC Virtual Research Environment 3 programme. [...]

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The beauty of Science

By Craig | Published: May 25, 2009

This movie (thanks to James C for the link), made my long-weekend. It is all about context;  placing reductive observations about the world in a greater context so as to add to their beauty. You could also apply this to social and cultural phenomena; being able to place fellow humans in a empathetic cultural contexts, [...]

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What is technological determinism?

By Craig | Published: May 23, 2009

Technological determinism is circulated, maintained, and advanced within the pre-existing hierarchies in the world in which we live. Determinism has its own political agendas, its own rules, its own contexts and hierarchies and antagonisms to an imagined ‘other’. Determinism utilises a proprietary language and culture and although it cloaks itself in ideas of inter-disciplinary, deterministic [...]

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  • ...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling digital humanities developments in a cultural, social, and technical sense and in terms of books and applications...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary

    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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