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...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.
Category Archives: books
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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New Book: Joseph Camilleri and Jim Falk “Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet”, Edward Elgar, UK, December 2009
The book that I worked on in 2006 as a Research Assistant with Professor Jim Falk is to be launched this Friday at the University of Technology; Sydney. The book is about the rise of ‘global governance’; driven by crisis such as climate and technological changes (I worked on the technology chapter). The argument, and [...]
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The new Wheeler Centre Melbourne
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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The Case for Books; Past Present and Future
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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The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery
‘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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Scientific Collaborations on the Internet
(A fantastic book for e-Science buffs!) Modern science is increasingly collaborative, as signaled by rising numbers of coauthored papers, papers with international coauthors, and multi-investigator grants. Historically, scientific collaborations were carried out by scientists in the same physical location—the Manhattan Project of the 1940s, for example, involved thousands of scientists gathered on a remote plateau [...]
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