I think if I could name one of the most frustrating aspects about being a ‘digital humanists’ (apart form the preponderance of polyester shirts), it is confronting the popular notion that a computer is a thing. Many people, (including some of the nations most talented researchers), believe that a computer is just a thing. And [...]
The newly formed Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) held its inaugural conference ‘Digital Humanities Australasia: Building, Mapping, Connecting’ in Canberra, 26-30 March, 2012. The event was the first major conference of its type in Australia; bringing together some of the leading figures in the digital humanities internationally as well as showcasing some of the [...]
I think if there is to be another so-called broader vision of ‘computers in the humanities’ at this stage of development,there needs to be much more work done in terms of ‘research into research’ (ie. especially into humanities research practices). The practical and urgent problems of science require lots of talented people to address them; [...]
I have been having many conversations with people of late around the boundaries of ‘eResearch’ and ‘Digital Humanities’. And I have received lots of divergent and interesting responses from both researchers and professionals working in various ways with computing in the humanities. And there does tend to be little agreement about certain aspects of the [...]
Just a reminder that Professor Harold Short will speaking in Melbourne this Friday, 27 April, 2012. Synopsis: What are the particular challenges faced by arts and humanities scholars engaged in collaborative inter-disciplnary research? This is a significant question for the Digital Humanities, whose own disciplinary identity and character are so intrinsically multidisciplinary. Drawing on the [...]
I have been thinking a little more about this the relationship between ‘eResearch’ and the ‘Digital Humanities’ of late; partly because it is the subject of my talk at the Digital Humanities conference in Hamburg in July, and I want to do justice to what I see as a very important topic that hasn’t been [...]
...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling digital humanities developments in a cultural, social, and technical sense and in terms of books and applications...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary
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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