Monthly Archives: July 2010

Decoding Digital Humanities (Melbourne Chapter)

By Craig | Published: July 23, 2010

In conjunction with University College London’s Centre for Digital Humanities, Decoding Digital Humanities is an informal monthly get together in the pub to discuss all things digital in the humanities.  This is an opportunity to meet others working on digital projects and is open to staff, students, and faculty. The first meeting of this semester [...]

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DH2010, Review, #DH2010

By Craig | Published: July 21, 2010

(Opening Address, Digital Humanities 2010) Digital Humanities 2010, King’s College London, 7-10 July, 2010. Members of the VeRSI team attended the Digital Humanities Conference at King’s College London (7-10 July); the annual conference of the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations.  The conference in its various guises has been running for 22 years or 37 years [...]

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As a discipline, we suck online (boo! to Times Higher Ed)

By Craig | Published: July 16, 2010

The UK Times Higher Ed published an article about the closing plenary lecture at the Digital Humanities conference in London. But I feel that there is some miscommunication happened. Something was lost from what the speaker, Dr Melissa Terras, perhaps intended and what the author of the Times Higher Ed article wrote. Since when does [...]

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THATCamp Canberra: Applications Closes July 23

By Craig | Published: July 16, 2010

Just a reminded that applications for THATCamp Canberra; the Humanities and Technology Camp (28-29 August), closes on July 23. These are excellent events and I would encourage digital humanists to attend. I just attended THATCamp London and there were a diverse range of sessions and lots of rigorous debate.  The application process is simple; just [...]

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Google and the Digital Humanities

By Craig | Published: July 15, 2010

We’ve given awards to 12 projects led by 23 researchers at 15 universities: Steven Abney and Terry Szymanski, University of Michigan. Automatic Identification and Extraction of Structured Linguistic Passages in Texts. Elton Barker, The Open University, Eric C. Kansa, University of California-Berkeley, Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Google Ancient Places (GAP): Discovering historic [...]

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DH2010 keynote – Melissa Terras: Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon

By Craig | Published: July 15, 2010

Melissa Terras giving the keynote speech at the DH2010 conference, 10th July 2010 (link)

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Back in Melbourne #dh2010

By Craig | Published: July 14, 2010

I am back in Melbourne after attending the Digital Humanities conference at Kings College London and in my short experience of the event; it was by far the best. I get the feeling that the field is at a pivotal moment in its history and without continued institutional support and strong academic leadership, the field [...]

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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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