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Transcribe Bentham in the NY Times

Another article in a series of articles in the New York Time about the Digital Humanities. This time it is about the Transcribe Bentham project from UCL. Since University College London began transcribing the papers of the Enlightenment philosopher Jeremy Bentham more than 50 years ago, it has published 27 volumes of his writings — [...]

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Online Communication and Promotion of Research Expertise

I encourage people to apply for this call from JISC. JISC put out some good calls, although at times I worry that they they do not understand the difference between ‘skilled work’ and ‘research work’. There is a big difference. Research is not necessarily ‘promoted’; it is cited within the authorial arguments of the academic [...]

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EngageMedia

EngageMedia is a video sharing site about social justice and environmental issues in the Asia Pacific, located in Melbourne in Australia, just a few doors up from my old house in Napier Street, Fitzroy. They also distribute their own developed plug-ins. This is a sophisticated crew that know their social software.! EngageMedia uses the power [...]

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8) Morning coffee with Craig: the G20, the economy, and protest

OK, I have started my ‘morning coffee with Craig’ series again. Similar format and similar theme to the previous ones, but I promise something fresher soon. Here I talk about ‘globalism’ and the recent protests during the G20 meeting here in London. It is similar to another video diary; number 4 in this series when [...]

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Banned hyperlinks could cost you $11,000 a day

The Australian communications regulator says it will fine people who hyperlink to sites on its blacklist, which has been further expanded to include several pages on the anonymous whistleblower site Wikileaks. Wikileaks was added to the blacklist for publishing a leaked document containing Denmark’s list of banned websites. The move by the Australian Communications and [...]

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Launch of U-Compare: an integrated text mining/natural language processing system

(Thanks to Tobias Blanke for the link) U-Compare is an integrated text mining/natural language processing system based on the UIMA Framework, which provides access to a large collection of ready-to-use interoperable natural language processing components. U-Compare is currently the world’s largest UIMA component repository. It allows users to build complex NLP workflows via an easy [...]

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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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