JISC has funded 14 Workshops and Seminars exploring some of the achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content. Covering a wide range of challenging and cutting-edge developments within digitisation these workshops address questions as diverse as visualising climate change data to digital performance, and issues around robot digitisation technology to Geographical Information Systems in history and heritage.
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the mass digitisation of textual materials: Improving Access to Text
Bellamy C. Achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/achievements-and-challenges-in-digitisation-and-e-content/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/achievements-and-challenges-in-digitisation-and-e-content/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/achievements-and-challenges-in-digitisation-and-e-content/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/achievements-and-challenges-in-digitisation-and-e-content/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content." 28 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/achievements-and-challenges-in-digitisation-and-e-content/>
August 28, 2009 at 10:09 am · Filed under education
Our aim at Gradfunding is to help postgraduate students of any nationality, academic background, or subject area fund any aspect of their studies- be it living expenses, fees, or research, travel, and conference costs. We are an advisory agency which specialises in winning grants from the voluntary sector (e.g. charities, foundations, and trusts). The voluntary sector in the UK is large, and generous, and there are thousands of bodies with grant-making power totalling millions who are prepared to consider student applicants (thanks to Luke Blaxill for the link)
Bellamy C. Winning Grants to support Postgraduate Study from the Voluntary Sector (by Luke Blaxill). craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/winning-grants-to-support-postgraduate-study-from-the-voluntary-sector-by-luke-blaxill/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Winning Grants to support Postgraduate Study from the Voluntary Sector (by Luke Blaxill). Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/winning-grants-to-support-postgraduate-study-from-the-voluntary-sector-by-luke-blaxill/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Winning Grants to support Postgraduate Study from the Voluntary Sector (by Luke Blaxill). craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/winning-grants-to-support-postgraduate-study-from-the-voluntary-sector-by-luke-blaxill/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Winning Grants to support Postgraduate Study from the Voluntary Sector (by Luke Blaxill), craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/winning-grants-to-support-postgraduate-study-from-the-voluntary-sector-by-luke-blaxill/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Winning Grants to support Postgraduate Study from the Voluntary Sector (by Luke Blaxill)." 28 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/28/winning-grants-to-support-postgraduate-study-from-the-voluntary-sector-by-luke-blaxill/>
MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) is a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study. It supports both micro analyses of the verbal texture of an individual text and macro analyses that let you locate texts in the context of a large document space consisting of hundreds or thousands of other texts. Shuttling between the “micro” and the “macro” is a distinctive feature of the MONK environment, where you may read as closely as you wish but can also practice many forms of what Franco Moretti has provocatively called “distant reading.”
Website
http://www.monkproject.org/
Principal Investigator
John Unsworth
Funding
$999,883, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Bellamy C. Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK). craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK). Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK). craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK), craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK)." 26 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/>
“…a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is an an online framework of collaborative tools and resources that allow researchers to share and re-use data, combine services, and undertake tasks to promote new collaborative research practices….”
The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to research on-line research collaboration in Virtual Research Environments (VREs). The focus of our study is to scope developments in VREs around the world and set them in relation to the activities in the UK.
The study aims to stimulate debate about the benefits of research collaboration facilitated by Virtual Research Environments so as to assist the JISC to provide services and strategies to support it.
The project is being undertaken by the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London and the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford.
If you are a user, developer, or provide technical support for VREs, your input would be most welcome .
New videos show how researchers use advanced technology
New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better
and different research through virtual research environments have just been
released.
The videos feature projects from JISC’s virtual research environment (VRE)
programme, which is trying to find ways to connect people and speed up
research processes across disciplines. These include astronomy, physics,
electronics, chemistry and the study of ancient documents.
Bellamy C. New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments." 18 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/>
Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants. Historically, scientific collaborations were carried out by scientists in the same physical location—the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for example, involved thousands of scientists gathered on a remote plateau in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Today, information and communication technologies allow cooperation among scientists from far-flung institutions and different disciplines. Scientific Collaboration on the Internet provides both broad and in-depth views of how new technology is enabling novel kinds of science and engineering collaboration. The book offers commentary from notable experts in the field along with case studies of large-scale collaborative projects, past and ongoing (link)
Bellamy C. Scientific Collaborations on the Internet. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/sceintific-collaborations-on-the-internet/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Scientific Collaborations on the Internet. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/sceintific-collaborations-on-the-internet/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Scientific Collaborations on the Internet. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/sceintific-collaborations-on-the-internet/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Scientific Collaborations on the Internet, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/sceintific-collaborations-on-the-internet/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Scientific Collaborations on the Internet." 12 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/sceintific-collaborations-on-the-internet/>
(Another important ‘big picture’ Internet impact study from the Oxford Internet Institute).
Oxford Internet Survey (OxIS) research is designed to offer detailed insights into the influence of the Internet on everyday life in Britain. Launched in 2003 by the Oxford Internet Institute, OxIS is an authoritative source of information about Internet access, use and attitudes. Some of the areas covered include: digital and social inclusion and exclusion; regulation and governance of the Internet; privacy, trust and risk concerns; social networking and entertainment; and online education (link).
Bellamy C. Oxford Internet Surveys. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/oxford-internet-surveys/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Oxford Internet Surveys. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/oxford-internet-surveys/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Oxford Internet Surveys. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/oxford-internet-surveys/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Oxford Internet Surveys, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/oxford-internet-surveys/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Oxford Internet Surveys." 12 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/12/oxford-internet-surveys/>
I was in a bar in Budapest recently talking to a bloke (about the same age as me) about great moments on TV. He said his was seeing the Romanian leaders Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu being executed. It makes for grim viewing
Bellamy C. Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/05/nicolae-elena-ceausescu/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/05/nicolae-elena-ceausescu/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/05/nicolae-elena-ceausescu/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/05/nicolae-elena-ceausescu/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Nicolae & Elena Ceausescu." 5 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/05/nicolae-elena-ceausescu/>
An excellent resource for those attempting to build communities around their sites.
90% of users are the “audience”, or lurkers. The people tend to read or observe, but don’t actively contribute.
9% of users are “editors”, sometimes modifying content or adding to an existing thread, but rarely create content from scratch.
1% of users are “creators”, driving large amounts of the social group’s activity. More often than not, these people are driving a vast percentage of the site’s new content, threads, and activity.
Bellamy C. The 90-9-1.com Principle: How users participate in social communities. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/the-90-9-1-com-principle-how-users-participate-in-social-communities/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). The 90-9-1.com Principle: How users participate in social communities. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/the-90-9-1-com-principle-how-users-participate-in-social-communities/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. The 90-9-1.com Principle: How users participate in social communities. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/the-90-9-1-com-principle-how-users-participate-in-social-communities/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, The 90-9-1.com Principle: How users participate in social communities, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/the-90-9-1-com-principle-how-users-participate-in-social-communities/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "The 90-9-1.com Principle: How users participate in social communities." 4 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/the-90-9-1-com-principle-how-users-participate-in-social-communities/>
The DHO (Digital Humanities Oberrvatory) in Ireland has launched their projects and methods database that highlights digital work in Irleand. It is parly modelled on our project ICTGudies (not Arts-humanities.net) and indeed uses the methods taxonomy developed by the Arts and Humanities Data Service (AHDS). (link)
Bellamy C. Digital Resources and Projects in Ireland: DRAPIer. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/digital-resources-and-porjects-in-ireland-drapier/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Digital Resources and Projects in Ireland: DRAPIer. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/digital-resources-and-porjects-in-ireland-drapier/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Digital Resources and Projects in Ireland: DRAPIer. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/digital-resources-and-porjects-in-ireland-drapier/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Digital Resources and Projects in Ireland: DRAPIer, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/digital-resources-and-porjects-in-ireland-drapier/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Digital Resources and Projects in Ireland: DRAPIer." 4 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/digital-resources-and-porjects-in-ireland-drapier/>
Upcoming posts will include an invitation to participate in user testing, as well as announcements of software as it becomes available.
Visit often, or subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest news on TILE.
TILE is a collaborative project among the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), and Indiana University Bloomington, funded through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources program (research and development focus). Over two years TILE will develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation.
The project is unusual in digital humanities tools development in that it is being designed from the start to support a wide variety of use cases. Several projects from the University of Indiana Bloomington, The University of Oregon and Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies are initial testbeds. In the second year of the project, TILE will turn to the user community for testing. If you are interested in participating, or in learning more about the project, please contact us at TILEPROJECT@listserv.heanet.ie. (thanks to Dot P for the link)
Bellamy C. TILE project blog and website launched. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). TILE project blog and website launched. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. TILE project blog and website launched. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, TILE project blog and website launched, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "TILE project blog and website launched." 4 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/>
(image of statues from ‘Memento Park’; the Communist statue park).
I recently attended the XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary. http://www.conferences.hu/ichs09/index.htm The conference was a large and truly international event with 1400 delegates from 60 countries. Set in the Budapest University of Technology and Economics; the university is one of the oldest technological institutions in the world (1772) and has a long history of major contributions to Science and Technology (the conference was however, set in a rather grim building).
Broadly speaking, the History and Philosophy of Science and the Digital Humanities do cover some similar academic territory as both are concerned with understanding technology through humanities approaches. Whist HPS is about critically understanding the history of technology in broader social and cultural contexts, the Digital Humanities is about applying computing technology to humanities problems.
Bellamy C. Report: XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/03/report-xxiii-international-congress-of-history-of-science-and-technology-in-budapest-hungary/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Report: XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/03/report-xxiii-international-congress-of-history-of-science-and-technology-in-budapest-hungary/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Report: XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/03/report-xxiii-international-congress-of-history-of-science-and-technology-in-budapest-hungary/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Report: XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/03/report-xxiii-international-congress-of-history-of-science-and-technology-in-budapest-hungary/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Report: XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary." 3 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/03/report-xxiii-international-congress-of-history-of-science-and-technology-in-budapest-hungary/>
...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!...
