Monthly Archives: January 2010

The new Wheeler Centre Melbourne

By Craig | Published: January 29, 2010

The new Wheeler Centre is about to open in Melbourne and is hosting a number of events.  It appear to be somewhere between a think tank and writers centre. Can’t wait! Our City of Literature status is not about Dickens on the tram, Nabokov in the Great Southern Stand or a Bronte or two over [...]

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Tim Berners Lee on free data and the BBC’s Virtual Revolution

By Craig | Published: January 27, 2010

Tim Berners-Lee discusses the launch of the government’s new open data project, and Dan Gluckman explains why the BBC was so keen to open the development of a new series about the social history of the web (link) Also see: http://data.gov.uk/

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Manuscript account of Newton’s apple made public

By Craig | Published: January 19, 2010

The manuscript is one of a number published online to mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, and can be accessed at www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages (from the Age)

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TEI by example

By Craig | Published: January 16, 2010

The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) of King’s College London, and the Department of Information Studies of University College London, are pleased to announce that funding has been secured to develop the online resource “TEI [...]

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The Case for Books; Past Present and Future

By Craig | Published: January 5, 2010

I am back in Melbourne now and normal viewing will resume once when I find my feet. In the mean time, here is a new book from the cultural historian, Robert Darnton who has recently taken up the post as Librarian at Harvard University. “In The Case for Books, Robert Darnton offers an in-depth examination [...]

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