Category Archives: digitisation

Supporting Digital Humanities

By Craig | Published: October 19, 2010

There is a conference being held at the moment in Vienna, Austria titled ‘Supporting Digital Humanities’ (19-20 October). It is the first joint conference between the two major European digital humanities infrastructure projects, CLARIN and DARIAH. There is a very important distinction to be made here between ‘supporting the digital humanities’ and supporting the humanities. [...]

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Cyberinfrastructure debates in Australia (Humanities)

By Craig | Published: October 11, 2010

For those interested in the Cyberinfrastructure debate within Australia for the humanities, there are a number of key documents to consider. Here is a report produced by Professor Graeme Turner for the Australian Academy of the Humanities titled ‘Towards an Australian Humanities Digital Archive‘. The report came out of a scoping study of Digital Humanities [...]

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Vatican Library to digitise 80,000 manuscripts

By Craig | Published: May 4, 2010

Thanks to Andrew T for the (link). Monsignor Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Library, sent out an “extraordinary” Newsletter 5/2010 on 24 March (see full text as posted by the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog) announcing plans to digitise 80,000 manuscripts held by the Vatican Library. Planning and consulting, as well as testing of workflow [...]

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The Google Book Settlement 18th February 2010

By Craig | Published: February 9, 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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Manuscript account of Newton’s apple made public

By Craig | Published: January 19, 2010

The manuscript is one of a number published online to mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, and can be accessed at www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages (from the Age)

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What to do with 30 million books?

By Craig | Published: October 26, 2009

(Posted to that wonderful Digital Humanities list, Humanist). Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:22:57 +0100 From: Jockers Matthew <mjockers@stanford.edu> Subject: Possible Text Mining Opportunity at Stanford Friends, As I’m sure many of you already know, Stanford has been closely involved with Google’s book scanning project, and we (Stanford) are currently preparing a proposal for the [...]

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Google Evil Agenda

By Craig | Published: October 2, 2009

This doco doesn’t really offer any solution to Google’s domination of online search. However, full marks for at least trying to be critical. I will see what else I can dig up and get back to you.

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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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