Category Archives: software

Towards an institutional typology of digital humanities centres

By Craig | Published: May 11, 2007

Thanks to John Unsworth for the link… This Wiki presents a structured list of departments, centres, institutes and other institutional forms that variously instantiate humanities computing. For each entry a link is provided to the relevant site on the WWW and a brief description given. This list represents an ongoing attempt to derive a basic [...]

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Democratisation and the Networked Public Sphere

By Craig | Published: April 12, 2007

* Panel Discussion with dana boyd, Trebor Scholz, and Ethan Zuckerman Friday, April 13, 2007, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. The New School, Theresa Lang Community and Student Center 55 West 13th Street, 2nd floor New York City Admission: $8, free for all students, New School faculty, staff, and alumni with valid ID This evening at [...]

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What is Annodex (hypertextual video)?

By Craig | Published: February 27, 2007

This fantastic film annotation (ie. hypertextual video) project is being developed by the CSRIO in Australia and other institutions. When http, html and URIs were invented, the World Wide Web took its shape. With the technology provided here, we extend the Web to audio-visual data: Annodex, cmml and temporal URIs allow the creation of Webs [...]

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UK Government Restrictions on Street Photography

By Craig | Published: February 27, 2007

(the software for No 10 was developed by MySociety.org) Signing up to ask the Prime Minister to Stop proposed restrictions regarding photography in public places The UK Govt are about to propose restrictions on photography in public places which could make street photography and documentary photography against the law. There’s a petition on the Downing [...]

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Vidipedia

By Craig | Published: February 21, 2007

After 640-802, many professionals think that it is of no use to write 70-290 as well. This is why they skip it and go for 646-204 directly. Although this makes them eligible for 642-901 , but majority flunks the real exam. _____________________________________________ A wiki for video…check out this research at the the University of Newcastle [...]

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timeXchange Project

By Craig | Published: February 20, 2007

Another interesting application from the Web 2.0 world is timeXchange.net based in Chicago. For the increasing number of us whose work is project oriented, this system offers a easy way to manage and track expenses. Thanks to Joe PieKarz for the (Link).

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What is the Haystack Project?

By Craig | Published: February 20, 2007

The Haystack Project is investigating approaches designed to let people manage their information in ways that make the most sense to them. By removing arbitrary application-created barriers, which handle only certain information “types” and relationships as defined by the developer, we aim to let users define their most effective arrangements and connections between views of [...]

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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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