In preparation for the 2008 Scholarly Communications Institute (SCI 6), the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) commissioned a survey of digital humanities centers (DHCs). The immediate goals of the survey were to identify the extent of these centers and to explore their financing, organizational structure, products, services, and sustainability. The longer-term goal was to provide SCI 6 participants with a greater understanding of existing centers to inform their discussions about regional and national centers.
Digital humanities centers, Ms. Zorich writes, are entities “where new media and technologies are used for humanities-based research, teaching, and intellectual engagement and experimentation. The goals of the center are to further humanities scholarship, create new forms of knowledge, and explore technology’s impact on humanities-based disciplines.” (link)
Bellamy C. A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/a-survey-of-digital-humanities-centers-in-the-united-states/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/a-survey-of-digital-humanities-centers-in-the-united-states/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/a-survey-of-digital-humanities-centers-in-the-united-states/ (accessed March 15, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/a-survey-of-digital-humanities-centers-in-the-united-states/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "A Survey of Digital Humanities Centers in the United States." 23 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/a-survey-of-digital-humanities-centers-in-the-united-states/>
“The Alchemist in Search of the Philosopher’s Stone,” by Joseph Wright, 1771
Dan Edelstein, a Stanford French professor, has been exploring an aspect of the Age of Enlightenment that is less familiar to most, the so-called “dark side” of the enlightenment. He described the differentiating factors. “The prevailing understanding of the enlightenment is one in which there was only scientific and rational thinking, but there was also a significant number of people contributing to the enlightenment who were absorbed in dubious scholarly pursuits like alchemy, mythology, astrology and secret societies.”(link)
These ‘dubious scholarly pursuits’ are still with us. ‘Web 2′ perhaps?
Bellamy C. The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/the-%e2%80%98dark-side%e2%80%99-of-the-enlightenment/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/the-%e2%80%98dark-side%e2%80%99-of-the-enlightenment/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/the-%e2%80%98dark-side%e2%80%99-of-the-enlightenment/ (accessed March 15, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/the-%e2%80%98dark-side%e2%80%99-of-the-enlightenment/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "The ‘Dark Side’ of the Enlightenment." 23 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/23/the-%e2%80%98dark-side%e2%80%99-of-the-enlightenment/>
What a crushing anticlimax! We wait 1,500 years to welcome the millionth word into the English language, with the champagne on ice and the fatted calf slain and oven-ready for the newcomer’s arrival.
Then at long last it appears, snuggling into the crisp white space we’ve cleared for it in the dictionary . . . and it turns out to be an outrageous impostor.
I mean, I ask you: ‘Web 2.0′? Do you call that a word? In my book, it’s no more a word than ‘Bog 43.7′.
Bellamy C. Web 2.0. The millionth word in English?. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/17/web-2-0-the-millionth-word-in-english/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Web 2.0. The millionth word in English?. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/17/web-2-0-the-millionth-word-in-english/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Web 2.0. The millionth word in English?. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/17/web-2-0-the-millionth-word-in-english/ (accessed March 15, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Web 2.0. The millionth word in English?, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/17/web-2-0-the-millionth-word-in-english/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Web 2.0. The millionth word in English?." 17 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/17/web-2-0-the-millionth-word-in-english/>
Bellamy C. Facebook URLs ?. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/15/facebook-urls/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Facebook URLs ?. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/15/facebook-urls/
Bellamy C. Stop Internet Censorship…. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/stop-internet-censorship/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Stop Internet Censorship…. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/stop-internet-censorship/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Stop Internet Censorship…. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/stop-internet-censorship/ (accessed March 15, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Stop Internet Censorship…, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/stop-internet-censorship/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Stop Internet Censorship…." 9 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/stop-internet-censorship/>
The JISC Virtual Research Environment (VRE) III kick-off meeting was held at the University of Leicester 8-9 July 2009. Representatives from JISC attended as well as representatives from the projects that had won funding in the last JISC VRE III and Information Environments funding round. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/inf11startup.aspx
The highlight of the meeting was certainly the project presentation segment. New project presentations can be a pretty tedious affair, especially when there are 60 new projects, so even if each project had been given 5 minute to strut-their-stuff, it would have taken 5 hours! So rather than torture the audience for 5 hours, the JISC in its wisdom, allowed each project team a mere 30 seconds! Read the rest of this entry »
Bellamy C. JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/ (accessed March 15, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009., craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.." 9 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/>
An interesting new report from the Centre for Social Media at American University is Washington DC.
This field report traces how a committed group of volunteers harnessed the micro-blogging tool Twitter to create innovative public media 2.0 experiments—first to actively engage users to report on their voting experiences in the 2008 U.S. election, and then to document their experiences of the 2009 presidential inauguration. Along the way, these two projects demonstrated how journalists and advocates can effectively leverage a range of both commercial and open source social media tools to organize, publicize and implement citizen reporting projects, creating infrastructure for related future projects. Organizers have since worked to archive and repurpose the code and collaboration materials from these efforts for use in 2009 election monitoring initiatives in India and Iran (link)
Bellamy C. Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/building-social-media-infrastructure-to-engage-publics/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/building-social-media-infrastructure-to-engage-publics/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/building-social-media-infrastructure-to-engage-publics/ (accessed March 15, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/building-social-media-infrastructure-to-engage-publics/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Building Social Media Infrastructure to Engage Publics." 9 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/building-social-media-infrastructure-to-engage-publics/>
The JISC-funded A Vision of Britain Through Time website launches today,
giving access, often for the first time, to over two centuries’ worth of
facts, figures, surveys, maps, election results and travel writing showing
how 15,000 UK places have changed.
The changing story of Britain’s towns and villages can be explored in new
depth online, which unites more than 200 years worth of official documents,
maps and travel stories. http://vision.port.ac.uk/
Bellamy C. A vision of Britain through time. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/07/a-vision-of-britain-through-time/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). A vision of Britain through time. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/07/a-vision-of-britain-through-time/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. A vision of Britain through time. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/07/a-vision-of-britain-through-time/ (accessed March 15, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, A vision of Britain through time, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/07/a-vision-of-britain-through-time/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "A vision of Britain through time." 7 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/07/a-vision-of-britain-through-time/>
I attended the OpenTech ’09 forum on Saturday; organised by the UK Unix Users Group and friends at the University of London Union (ULU). For those interested in the social and political aspects of computing; this is an excellent forum to discuss new modes of political communication, privacy, advocacy and other issues that arise from the broader computing movement. There was an excellent talk on the two cultures of science/technology and the humanities from Bill Thompson who compared CP Snow’s pioneering work to present social circumstances. Bill basically argued that technological literary needs to rise considerably; especially in the political classes, otherwise we are doomed! He argued that many people in senior positions (as well as the broader public) do not understand the ‘power in code’ and this is perhaps why so many large government systems have failed in the UK (I just ordered CP shows book on Amazon for 10 quid).
Another interesting session was from a representative from the Guardian newspaper who discussed their experience of reporting the Ian Tomlinson death at the G20 protests earlier this year. The speaker explained how the video footage was released immediately on the web rather the usual slower way through the print-edition. Although the analysis of this technique was not well communicated by the speaker, he did made the interesting observation that the Guardian in this instance had used their online distributing power to ‘crown source’ news rather than simply publish it. They had allowed others to use the video of Tomlinson’s death in Blogs and Youtube etc. rather than slowly releasing it thorough the print edition.
Another speaker from the Guardian talked about the paper’s very bold initiative to make much of their data open to the public. They have RSS feeds, an API system, and a sophisticated tagging system. I found their DataBlog one of the most interesting initiatives in that many of the facts that are researched by journalists have been aggregated for later use and open to the public. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog
The Guardian’s initiative to crowd source the expenses claims-documents of MPS was also discussed; along with the limitations and opportunities of this approach. http://mps-expenses.guardian.co.uk/
I recently attended a workshop sponsored by the Joint information Systems Committee (JISC) that presented some of the findings from the JISC funded community engagement and virtual research environments (VRE) projects. The three community engagement projects presented were the engage project (engaging researchers with e-infrastructure), the e-uptake project (enabling uptake of e-Infrastructure Services), and the eius project (e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models).
And the Virtual Research Environments (VREs) presented were MyExperiment (sharing scientific workflows), the VERA project (Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology) and the BVREH Project (Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities).
Rob Proctor presented the findings from the e-uptake project, one of the community engagement projects concerned with understanding the barriers to researchers applying new e-infrastructures within their work practices. One of the aims of the project was to identify recurring and wide spread barriers rather than localised and contingent barriers. The people interviewed for the study were primarily researchers but alos intermediaries who provide support services. Read the rest of this entry »
Bellamy C. Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/. Accessed March 15, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/ (accessed March 15, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 15, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers." 2 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 15 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/>
...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling some of the digital humanities developments (in a cultural, political and social sense and in terms of books, technologies, and applications)...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary; the broad research fields are the Digital Humanities, Social Software, eResearch, and New Media...
Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am an eResearch Analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (for the Arts and Humanities) based at the University of Melbourne ...and it is my goal to join every online social networking thingee in the whole damn world!...
