Category Archives: collaboration

eResearch Australasia Newsletter

By Craig | Published: September 7, 2009

The eResearch field in Australasia produces a monthly newsletter to inform punters of developments in the field. It is published online and via email. A monthly newsletter carrying items of interest to the Australasian eResearch community is published via the mailing list eresearch-announce@eresearch.edu.au and archived here.  If you would like to subscribe, send a plain [...]

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Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK)

By Craig | Published: August 26, 2009

Abstract MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) is a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study. It supports both micro analyses of the verbal texture of an individual text and macro analyses that let you locate texts in the context of a large document space consisting of [...]

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Survey: Virtual Reseach Environment Collaboartive Landscape Study

By Craig | Published: August 25, 2009

What is a VRE? “…a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is an an online framework of collaborative tools and resources that allow researchers to share and re-use data, combine services, and undertake tasks to promote new collaborative research practices….” The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information [...]

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Christine Borgman lecture@OII

By Craig | Published: June 9, 2009

Christine Borgman gave an interesting lecture at OII (Oxford Internet Institute)  recently (she is one of the Keynote speakers at this years Digital Humanities Conference.  One of the major points that I retained from this talk is that Data is not objective fact. Data is simply the ‘alleged evidence’ as one researchers observations may differ [...]

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Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) wins NEH Grant

By Craig | Published: June 8, 2009

(The new Digital Humanities Observatory in Dublin has some innovative projects. This new ‘VRE’ (Virtual Research Environment) collaborative-style of project may be of interest to viewers). A collaborative project between the Digital Humanities Observatory, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and Indiana University Bloomington has been selected to receive a major grant from the [...]

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The Internet as Playground and Factory

By Craig | Published: June 5, 2009

(This conference about Labour online may be of interest.  From my rudimentary understanding ‘free’ labour online is a fairly contentious issue as online labour may be pooled by large commercial interests and used to accumulate profit without distributing the fruits of this labour to users). Dear all, You can now join the discussion about topics [...]

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New Group: Social Software in the Digital Humanities

By Craig | Published: June 1, 2009

(This new group on Arts-humanities.net may be of interest to punters.  It is primarily focussed upon ‘social software’ theory, techniques, and applications within the Digital Humanities.  As it is a new group, we are more than open about its skippering within the choppy Web 2 sea). The aim of this group is to critically discuss [...]

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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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