Monthly Archives: February 2010

Digital Classicist

Call for Presentations The Digital Classicist will once more be running a series of seminars at the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, with support from the British Library, in Summer 2010 on the subject of research into the ancient world that has an innovative digital component. We are especially interested in work that [...]

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DHO Summer School 28 June – 2 July 2010, Trinity College, Dublin

Registration is now open for the 2010 Summer School. Please see the registration page for further details. The Digital Humanities Observatory in conjunction with NINES and the EpiDoc Collaborative is pleased to offer the DHO Summer School 2010. It will bring together 60 Irish and International humanities scholars undertaking digital projects in diverse areas to [...]

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SPARC Authors Addendum

If you have written an academic paper and wish to publish it in a journal, you are often asked to sign away your rights to that journal so that it may not be distributed in any other form. The SPARC Authors Addendum (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) is one way to distribute your [...]

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TED Talks: How to make the data look interesting…

You’ve never seen data presented like this. With the drama and urgency of a sportscaster, statistics guru Hans Rosling debunks myths about the so-called “developing world.”

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Scientists dispute climate sceptic’s claim that US weather data is useless

An interesting twist on the Climate Change debate. When data is made public, so too is the basis in which this data was collected. Data is part of a scientific argument; it isn’t ‘absolute truth’. It appeared to have shaken the credibility of one of the most important global warming data sets in the world. [...]

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The Google Book Settlement 18th February 2010

I am just reading Professor Robert Darnton’s new book titled ‘The Case for Books’. Darnton is a well know book historian, especially of the French Enlightenment, and made the bold career move to become Harvard’s Librarian. Admittedly ‘the Case for Books’ is not that good, especially for those who have been involved in academic publishing [...]

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What is Culture24?

Culture24 exists to promote and support the cultural sector online and to serve the needs of online audiences. We are a not-for-profit online publisher, working across the arts, heritage, education, and tourism sectors. A wonderful initiative. Also, check out there data-feeds that contain data from 4300 cultural venues across the UK…wow! (link).

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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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