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Are Today’s Researchers equipped for the Digital Future?

By Craig | Published: June 9, 2009

(I missed this event at the British Academy. I hope someone from the Digital Humanities field was there to represent our perspectives and innovations.  Let me know if you attended and perhaps you could write a review for Arts-Humanities.net) This event will explore issues which the digital revolution is raising for the research community, particularly [...]

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New Group: Social Software in the Digital Humanities

By Craig | Published: June 1, 2009

(This new group on Arts-humanities.net may be of interest to punters.  It is primarily focussed upon ‘social software’ theory, techniques, and applications within the Digital Humanities.  As it is a new group, we are more than open about its skippering within the choppy Web 2 sea). The aim of this group is to critically discuss [...]

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Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009

By Craig | Published: May 18, 2009

This years Digital Classics seminar is due to begin on June 5. The classics field is one of the most active in the Digital Humanities and this years seminar has attracted many international speakers discussing diverse topics from Herodotus, to Philology, to agent-based modelling. For those historians and academics who are not particularly strong in [...]

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Report: Tools for Data-Driven Scholarship (or tools for value driven scholarship?)

By Craig | Published: April 10, 2009

(Google’s data centre) Another excellent report from some excellent US scholars. But I wish that I had more time to properly interrogate the ideas and claims I often read in these Digital Humanities documents ( but if I may be a bold and superficial blogger, there are some recurring themes in numerous of these documents). [...]

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What is Geoparser?

By Craig | Published: December 17, 2008

The GeoParser demonstrator is a tool that allows users to upload web pages, text files, metadata records, xml etc., which can then be parsed for geographical names. These are then checked against GeoCrossWalk to obtain explicit geographical coordinates for the location referred to , in order to “geo-tag” the uploaded document. In other words, it [...]

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What is PhiloMine?

By Craig | Published: October 1, 2008

PhiloMine is a “drop-in” extension to current releases of PhiloLogic, to support a variety of machine learning, text mining, and document clustering tasks. It is designed to work with databases loaded under PhiloLogic, with extensions included in this release. PhiloMine release 2 is a completely rewritten and significantly enhanced revision of our first release PhiloMine. [...]

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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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    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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