Monthly Archives: September 2009

Explore 44,500 selected recordings of music, spoken word, and human and natural environments

By Craig | Published: September 30, 2009

(A wonderful new resource from the JISC Digitisation Programme) Previously unpublished recordings of Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) talks from the 1980s online go online today at the JISC-funded Archival Sound Recordings website of the British Library at <http://sounds.bl.uk> Featuring talks and debates with top cultural, artistic and political figures of the day, this latest [...]

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Report back: ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ Birmingham, 24 September

By Craig | Published: September 29, 2009

I attended the ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ workshop on Thursday (24 September) organised by the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. There were presentation by many leading figures of electronic textual editing from the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia, Ireland, and Britain. The workshop was organised [...]

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The Text of Dot Porter’s “Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch” Now Available Online

By Craig | Published: September 29, 2009

(an excellent paper that challenges the British Library’s crappy page-turning software) 3 February 2009 – The text of Dot Porter’s talk, “Reading, Writing, Building: the Old English Illustrated Hexateuch,” including accompanying slideshow and example videos, are now available on the DHO website. Ms Porter, Metadata Manager at the DHO, presented this paper at the Royal [...]

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event: Imagining a History for the Future of the Book (London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship)

By Craig | Published: September 29, 2009

(Punters should come to this if in London. Ray is Good!) No form of human knowledge passes into a new medium unchanged. Digital technology is fundamentally altering the way we relate to writing, reading, and the human record itself. The pace of that change has created a gap between core cultural and social practices that [...]

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The Internet as playground and factory

By Craig | Published: September 28, 2009

Patrica Clough interviewed at a recent conference at the New School, NY. The interview is a bit of a hot-air rant that lacks any form of evidence, but there are some good ideas buried in there. Thanks to Trebor S for the link The Internet as Playground and Factory – Patricia Clough from Trebor Scholz [...]

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Google Earth climate change 3D map

By Craig | Published: September 28, 2009

Explore the potential impacts of climate change on our planet Earth and find out about possible solutions for adaptation and mitigation, ahead of the UN’s climate conference in Copenhagen in December (COP15). Choose a tour from the list below and click the play button to see it unfold, or you can also view these tours [...]

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Social Media vs the Dictator – Clay Shirky

By Craig | Published: September 22, 2009

Lessons learned. The social context of technological-use is as important as the technology itself (try telling that to the practical minded Dictator!)

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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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