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SPARC Authors Addendum

By Craig | Published: February 19, 2010

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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Ordnance Survey maps to go free online

By Craig | Published: November 18, 2009

The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian’s three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move will bring the UK into line with the free publication of maps that exists in the US. Gordon Brown announced the change at a joint [...]

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Private Sheriffs in Cyberspace: Jonathan Zittrain OII Event: London, 19th May 2009

By Craig | Published: May 21, 2009

On Tuesday evening I attended an Oxford Internet Institute sponsored lecture by Jonathan Zittrain, Professor of Harvard Law School, Co-Founder and Faculty Director, Berkman Centre for Internet & Society (at the salubrious legal offices of Wragge and Co). Zittrain talked about regulation on-line by major Internet players such as Facebook and Apple and asserted that [...]

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A Digital Humanities Manifesto

By Craig | Published: May 15, 2009

(everyone should have a manifesto!) I am pleased that UCLA has discovered the Digital Humanities. Here is a manifesto that they published from the Mellon Seminar in Digital Humanities (link). Also, check out UCLA’s  White Paper on the Promise of Digital Humanities Co-authored by Todd Presner (Germanic Studies and Comparative Literature) and Chris Johanson (Classics [...]

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Press Release: Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpace™ Organization

By Craig | Published: May 13, 2009

(This is indeed excellent news for the Open Repositories movement in terms of creating such a large player in the field and in terms of pooling the expertise of both organisation to help foster an open research commons online). (Fedora hats…much more interesting than Press Releases!) Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA — Fedora Commons and the [...]

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Pirate Bay…

By Craig | Published: April 18, 2009

“It is the opinion of us and our lawyers that you are morons and you should sodomise yourself with retractable batons’ Pirate Bay (from the guardian). Although the author of this blog does not condone the use of police batons for sexual pleasure, the author does believe that Copyright legislation, especially as it manifests itself [...]

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Maura Marx Named First Executive Director of the Open Content Alliance

By Craig | Published: August 27, 2008

The Internet Archive and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced today the appointment of Maura Marx as the first Executive Director of the Open Content Alliance (OCA). A search committee representing OCA member institutions made the appointment after an intensive search process. Ms. Marx will move to the OCA from the Boston Public Library, where [...]

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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.

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