Monthly Archives: August 2009

Achievements and challenges in Digitisation and e-Content

By Craig | Published: August 28, 2009

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 [...]

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Winning Grants to support Postgraduate Study from the Voluntary Sector (by Luke Blaxill)

By Craig | Published: August 28, 2009

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 [...]

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Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK)

By Craig | Published: August 26, 2009

Abstract 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 [...]

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Survey: Virtual Reseach Environment Collaboartive Landscape Study

By Craig | Published: August 25, 2009

What is a VRE? “…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 [...]

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New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments

By Craig | Published: August 18, 2009

Press release 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 [...]

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Scientific Collaborations on the Internet

By Craig | Published: August 12, 2009

(A fantastic book for e-Science buffs!) 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 [...]

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Oxford Internet Surveys

By Craig | Published: August 12, 2009

(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. [...]

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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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