Category Archives: open source

OpenTech ’09

By Craig | Published: July 6, 2009

http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2009/ I attended the OpenTech ’09 forum on Saturday; organised by the UK Unix Users Group and friends at the University of London Union (ULU). For those interested in the social and political aspects of computing; this is an excellent forum to discuss new modes of political communication, privacy, advocacy and other issues that arise [...]

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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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Digital copyright: it’s all wrong

By Craig | Published: June 11, 2008

A draft treaty proposes draconian measures to protect copyright. THE forces of reaction are fighting back. As they often do, they are carrying out their planning in secret, in the knowledge that if more people knew of their activities they would not be allowed to get away with it (link)

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Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation

By Craig | Published: October 12, 2007

Produced by the Office of Science and Innovation (OSI) e-Infrastructure Working Group, the report – Developing the UK’s e-infrastructure for science and innovation – sets out the requirements for a national e-infrastructure to help ensure the UK maintains and indeed enhances its global standing in science and innovation in an increasingly competitive world (link)

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The (Opensource) Economy of Regard

By Craig | Published: August 3, 2007

An excellent article about why the open source software movement works by Dalle, David, Ghosh, and Wolak and presented 2 years ago at the Oxford Internet Institute. http://siepr.stanford.edu/programs/OpenSoftware_David/Economy-of-Regard_8+_OWLS.pdf

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eArts and eHumanities – eScience technologies and methodologies in Arts and Humanities research

By Craig | Published: May 2, 2007

This workshop is being held as part of the Open Grid Forum in Manchester next Monday May 5. Andreas Aschenbrenner (TextGrid), Stephen Beck (HASS-RG), Tobias Blanke (AHeSSC), Allison Clark (HASS-RG), Stuart Dunn (AHeSSC), Peter Gietz (TextGrid), Mark Hedges (AHDS) The first session will be a Birds of a Feather session – presenting the work of [...]

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How to Study an Electronic Text

By Craig | Published: March 26, 2007

TaPOR, the distributed text analysis system being developed in Canada has some fantastic notes (or recipes) on studying electronic texts. This page describes common or interesting sequences of actions, or recipes, for the TAPoR portal. They are organized according to the objective of the recipe. Recipes fall into the three categories of location and identification [...]

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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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