Monthly Archives: October 2009

Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize

By Craig | Published: October 27, 2009

The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Now in its inaugural year, the prize will be given every three years to honour an outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the [...]

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What to do with 30 million books?

By Craig | Published: October 26, 2009

(Posted to that wonderful Digital Humanities list, Humanist). Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:22:57 +0100 From: Jockers Matthew <mjockers@stanford.edu> Subject: Possible Text Mining Opportunity at Stanford Friends, As I’m sure many of you already know, Stanford has been closely involved with Google’s book scanning project, and we (Stanford) are currently preparing a proposal for the [...]

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Open Access enhances scholarly communication by making the results of research electronically available

By Craig | Published: October 26, 2009

The rhetoric within this JISC promotion of Open Access is a little naive (ie. as if researchers haven’t always communicated their research results), but still there is some good information here about JISC’s initiatives.  Also, check out the podcast by Harvard Historian Robert Darnton (link). Opening the knowledge base to all means more researchers can [...]

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Menzies Lecture by Professor Graeme Davison, Monash University, Australia

By Craig | Published: October 23, 2009

Professor Graeme Davidson, an Historian from Monash University in Australia, delivered the annual Menzies Lecture at King’s College London on Tuesday Night (20th October).  The lecture is one of the events from the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College. In his lecture titled ‘Narrating the Nation’ Graeme discussed the foundation narratives that settlers [...]

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Decoding Pasts, Building Futures (Digital Humanities lecture)

By Craig | Published: October 21, 2009

Inaugural Lecture by Richard Beacham, Charlotte Roueché & Harold Short Friday 23 October 2009 17.30, Edmond J Safra Theatre, Strand Campus We have chosen to give a joint inaugural presentation of our work, because we all work in densely collaborative areas, in a manner which is not necessarily familiar to Humanities scholars. We will be [...]

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Clay Shirky on social media, communities, and Open Hack Day

By Craig | Published: October 21, 2009

New York University professor Clay Shirky, an expert on social media, kicked off Yahoo!’s Open Hack Day NYC 2009 with a thoughtful keynote on what motivates people to participate in online communities (Thanks to Leigh B. for the link)

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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery

By Craig | Published: October 16, 2009

‘Presenting the first broad look at the rapidly emerging field of data-intensive science’ Increasingly, scientific breakthroughs will be powered by advanced computing capabilities that help researchers manipulate and explore massive datasets. The speed at which any given scientific discipline advances will depend on how well its researchers collaborate with one another, and with technologists, in areas [...]

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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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