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Review: Sustainable data from digital research conference, Melbourne

A conference was held at the University of Melbourne in December 2011 with the theme ‘sustainable data from digital research’ organised by Dr Nick Thieberger and colleagues at the School of Languages and Linguistics with assistance from the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) and the new Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). The Keynote for [...]

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aaDH joins ADHO

We are pleased to announce that the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) has been admitted to the international umbrella group, the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO).  Membership to aaDH will now occur through subscription to the LLC Journal, which administers association memberships for all ADHO constituent organisations. Professor Ray Siemens (Victoria; Canada), Chair [...]

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Stephen Ramsay: Melbourne December 12

Title of lecture: Found: Data, Textuality, and the Digital Humanities: Please register for this Information Futures event here: Time: Monday December 12 from 9.30 – 10.30 in the Wood Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne (Map: Building 148, Next to Old Arts and Baillieu Library) (A video of a keynote talk given by Stephen Ramsay [...]

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Rethinking the Digital Encyclopaedia Genre: An Australasian Perspective

 Defining the Genre The term ‘genre’ is used here to loosely describe the innovative work that has occurred in the construction and use of dictionaries and encyclopaedias in the Australasian region.  As applications of computing within the humanities have expanded, so too have the boundaries of how we understand these applications.  Many digital humanities projects [...]

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Dr Stan Ruecker on the future of digital reading

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CFP: Digital Humanities Australasia, 28-30 March 2012

Call for Papers, Panels and Posters **************************************************************************** DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2012: Building, Mapping, Connecting **************************************************************************** The inaugural conference of the Australasian Association for Digital Humanities Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 28-30 March 2012 Sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities and the College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University. CONFERENCE WEBSITE: http://aa-dh.org/conference [...]

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Roberto Busa dies aged 97

There are perhaps not many fields in the humanities that can trace their roots to certain individuals, collaborations, and innovative new approaches. But within the application of computing to humanities problems one name looms large. Roberto Busa, one of the pioneers of humanities computing, died in Italy on Tuesday (August 9, 2011). Roberto Busa is [...]

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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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