As part of JISC’s ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity
which launches at the end of November, a new Open Science report released
today trails key research trends that could have far-reaching implications for
science, universities and UK society.
The report written by UKOLN at the University of Bath and the Digital Curation
Centre, identifies open-ness, predictive science based on massive data
volumes and citizen involvement as being important features of tomorrow’s
research practice.
It is hoped that this document will stimulate and contribute to community
discussion in the UK, which is ranked second in the world for its output of
quality research, but also fuel the open science debate on the global stage. Read the rest of this entry »
Bellamy C. Open Science and Data. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/11/10/open-science-and-data/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Open Science and Data. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/11/10/open-science-and-data/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Open Science and Data. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/11/10/open-science-and-data/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Open Science and Data, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/11/10/open-science-and-data/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Open Science and Data." 10 Nov. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/11/10/open-science-and-data/>
I attended the ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ workshop on Thursday (24 September) organised by the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. There were presentation by many leading figures of electronic textual editing from the US, Canada, Germany, Italy, Australia, Ireland, and Britain. The workshop was organised to discuss the movement towards online collaborative tools for scholarly editing and the problems and opportunities associated with this. Peter Robinson the Director of the Institute of Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing and organiser of the event outlined the major issues as 1) ownership and control, 2) sustainability, and 3) interoperability (these were discussed in detail at a separate session on the second day) .
Joris van Zundert from the Huygens Institute in The Hague spoke first about moving humanities tools towards ‘networked services’. Many tools are developed for individual projects and are not often re-usable within other projects. By providing tools online (or ‘micro services’ that can be plugged into a generic software frameworks), other projects may use them to say, parse TEI XML texts, tokenise texts, or apply other methods required to transcribe and annotate text. His vision, shared by many projects, is for scholars to obtain their text from digital repositories, pipe it through a number of micro-services, and then end up with annotated and transcribed data. The particular content that Zandert is working with is critical editions of Middle Dutch; not easily automated through Optical Character Recognition Systems (thus a collaborative translation system is required).
Bellamy C. Report back: ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ Birmingham, 24 September. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/29/vre-birmingham/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Report back: ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ Birmingham, 24 September. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/29/vre-birmingham/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Report back: ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ Birmingham, 24 September. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/29/vre-birmingham/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Report back: ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ Birmingham, 24 September, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/29/vre-birmingham/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Report back: ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ Birmingham, 24 September." 29 Sep. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/29/vre-birmingham/>
This workshop will review and address the making of tools for collaborative scholarly editing over the web. The workshop leaders joins partners in the COST-ESF Interedition project (http://www.interedition.eu), which is focussing – as is the JISC-funded Virtual Manuscript Room project — on Europe-wide creation of infrastructure and tools for collaborative scholarly editing.The Australian Aust-e-Lit project will bring advanced experience of the making and working of collaborative tools with in for a national scholarly digital library. The workshop will allow key participants in Interedition, Aust-e-Lit, and in similar enterprises outside Europe to exchange information with UK scholars active in the area, and to explore common problems and possibilities for further collaboration (link).
Bellamy C. ‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/07/tools-for-collaborative-scholarly-editing-over-the-web/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). ‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/07/tools-for-collaborative-scholarly-editing-over-the-web/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. ‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/07/tools-for-collaborative-scholarly-editing-over-the-web/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, ‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/07/tools-for-collaborative-scholarly-editing-over-the-web/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’." 7 Sep. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/07/tools-for-collaborative-scholarly-editing-over-the-web/>
The eResearch field in Australasia produces a monthly newsletter to inform punters of developments in the field. It is published online and via email.
A monthly newsletter carrying items of interest to the Australasian eResearch community is published via the mailing list eresearch-announce@eresearch.edu.au and archived here. If you would like to subscribe, send a plain text message to majordomo@eresearch.edu.au with the words subscribe eresearch-announce in the message body. You can unsubscribe at any time.
If you have an item you would like to include in the newsletter, please send it to newsletter@eresearch.edu.au. The newsletter is published the first business day of each month, and submissions are due two business days prior to that. Each item should be no more than 150 words of plain text with a link for further information (link to newsletter)
Bellamy C. eResearch Australasia Newsletter. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/07/eresearch-australasia/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). eResearch Australasia Newsletter. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/07/eresearch-australasia/
Bellamy, C 2009, eResearch Australasia Newsletter, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/07/eresearch-australasia/>
The Peer review system for the NINES project may be of interest to punters.
Digital humanities projects have long lacked a framework for peer review and thus have often had difficulty establishing their credibility as true scholarship. NINES exists in part to address this situation by instituting a robust system of review by some of the most respected scholars in the field of nineteenth-century studies, British and American.
NINES provides peer-review of digital resources and archives created by scholars in nineteenth-century studies. Our Editorial Boards locate reviewers to evaluate both the intellectual content and the technical structure of each project submitted for inclusion in NINES. See below for a set of General Guidelines and Peer Review Criteria.
As part of the peer-review process, NINES requires the submission of metadata describing the objects within the resource. This metadata (in the form of RDF) is largely based on fields such as author, title, data, and course. It also includes a set of genres relevant to nineteenth-century studies (link)
Bellamy C. NINES Project: Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online (Peer Review system). craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/02/nines-project-ninteenth-century-scholarship-online-peer-review-system/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). NINES Project: Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online (Peer Review system). Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/02/nines-project-ninteenth-century-scholarship-online-peer-review-system/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. NINES Project: Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online (Peer Review system). craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/02/nines-project-ninteenth-century-scholarship-online-peer-review-system/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, NINES Project: Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online (Peer Review system), craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/02/nines-project-ninteenth-century-scholarship-online-peer-review-system/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "NINES Project: Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online (Peer Review system)." 2 Sep. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/09/02/nines-project-ninteenth-century-scholarship-online-peer-review-system/>
MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) is a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study. It supports both micro analyses of the verbal texture of an individual text and macro analyses that let you locate texts in the context of a large document space consisting of hundreds or thousands of other texts. Shuttling between the “micro” and the “macro” is a distinctive feature of the MONK environment, where you may read as closely as you wish but can also practice many forms of what Franco Moretti has provocatively called “distant reading.”
Website
http://www.monkproject.org/
Principal Investigator
John Unsworth
Funding
$999,883, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Bellamy C. Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK). craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK). Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK). craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK), craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK)." 26 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/26/humanities-text-mining-in-the-digital-library-monk/>
“…a Virtual Research Environment (VRE) is an an online framework of collaborative tools and resources that allow researchers to share and re-use data, combine services, and undertake tasks to promote new collaborative research practices….”
The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to research on-line research collaboration in Virtual Research Environments (VREs). The focus of our study is to scope developments in VREs around the world and set them in relation to the activities in the UK.
The study aims to stimulate debate about the benefits of research collaboration facilitated by Virtual Research Environments so as to assist the JISC to provide services and strategies to support it.
The project is being undertaken by the Centre for e-Research at King’s College London and the Oxford e-Research Centre at the University of Oxford.
If you are a user, developer, or provide technical support for VREs, your input would be most welcome .
New videos show how researchers use advanced technology
New videos showing how JISC is helping researchers achieve faster, better
and different research through virtual research environments have just been
released.
The videos feature projects from JISC’s virtual research environment (VRE)
programme, which is trying to find ways to connect people and speed up
research processes across disciplines. These include astronomy, physics,
electronics, chemistry and the study of ancient documents.
Bellamy C. New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "New videos show how researchers use Virtual Research Environments." 18 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/18/new-videos-show-how-researchers-use-virtual-research-environments/>
Upcoming posts will include an invitation to participate in user testing, as well as announcements of software as it becomes available.
Visit often, or subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest news on TILE.
TILE is a collaborative project among the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO), and Indiana University Bloomington, funded through a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources program (research and development focus). Over two years TILE will develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation.
The project is unusual in digital humanities tools development in that it is being designed from the start to support a wide variety of use cases. Several projects from the University of Indiana Bloomington, The University of Oregon and Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies are initial testbeds. In the second year of the project, TILE will turn to the user community for testing. If you are interested in participating, or in learning more about the project, please contact us at TILEPROJECT@listserv.heanet.ie. (thanks to Dot P for the link)
Bellamy C. TILE project blog and website launched. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). TILE project blog and website launched. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. TILE project blog and website launched. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, TILE project blog and website launched, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "TILE project blog and website launched." 4 Aug. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/08/04/tile-project-blog-and-website-launched/>
The JISC Virtual Research Environment (VRE) III kick-off meeting was held at the University of Leicester 8-9 July 2009. Representatives from JISC attended as well as representatives from the projects that had won funding in the last JISC VRE III and Information Environments funding round. http://www.jisc.ac.uk/whatwedo/programmes/inf11/inf11startup.aspx
The highlight of the meeting was certainly the project presentation segment. New project presentations can be a pretty tedious affair, especially when there are 60 new projects, so even if each project had been given 5 minute to strut-their-stuff, it would have taken 5 hours! So rather than torture the audience for 5 hours, the JISC in its wisdom, allowed each project team a mere 30 seconds! Read the rest of this entry »
Bellamy C. JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009., craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "JISC Projects start-up meeting: Information environment 2009-11 and Virtual Research Environment, Leicester, 8 July 2009.." 9 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/09/jisc-projects-start-up-meeting-information-environment-2009-11-and-virtual-research-environment-leicester-8-july-2009/>
I recently attended a workshop sponsored by the Joint information Systems Committee (JISC) that presented some of the findings from the JISC funded community engagement and virtual research environments (VRE) projects. The three community engagement projects presented were the engage project (engaging researchers with e-infrastructure), the e-uptake project (enabling uptake of e-Infrastructure Services), and the eius project (e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Service Usage Models).
And the Virtual Research Environments (VREs) presented were MyExperiment (sharing scientific workflows), the VERA project (Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology) and the BVREH Project (Building a Virtual Research Environment for the Humanities).
Rob Proctor presented the findings from the e-uptake project, one of the community engagement projects concerned with understanding the barriers to researchers applying new e-infrastructures within their work practices. One of the aims of the project was to identify recurring and wide spread barriers rather than localised and contingent barriers. The people interviewed for the study were primarily researchers but alos intermediaries who provide support services. Read the rest of this entry »
Bellamy C. Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Leaping Hurdles: Planning IT Provision for Researchers." 2 Jul. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/07/02/leaping-hurdles-planning-it-provision-for-researchers/>
An article in the Times Higher Education supplement about the Arts and Humanities e Science support Centre (AHESSC) here at King’s College in London.
Imagine the research possibilities of being able to view three-dimensional scans of museum objects, write dance moves electronically or study ancient documents that were previously considered too damaged to decipher.
E-tools are being developed to allow researchers to do these things, aiding scholarly work in subjects that are not usually associated with such technology, such as museum curation, dance, archaeology and music. The tools are also opening new possibilities for researchers who want to process a large amount of data or share resources more widely (link).
Bellamy C. Digital boost for work of arts. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/30/digital-boost-for-work-of-arts/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Digital boost for work of arts. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/30/digital-boost-for-work-of-arts/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Digital boost for work of arts. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/30/digital-boost-for-work-of-arts/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Digital boost for work of arts, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/30/digital-boost-for-work-of-arts/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "Digital boost for work of arts." 30 Jun. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/30/digital-boost-for-work-of-arts/>
There is a lively debate in the UK about the influence of Web 2.o on eReseach and new computing research infrastructures. The eScience institute in Edinburgh has a theme relating to this which is led by Professors Mark Baker and David De Roure.
The number of Web 2.0 services and applications, widely used by Internet users, academics, industry and enterprise, are growing rapidly, which demonstrates its solid foundations. These technologies and services are based on the open standards that underpin the Internet and Web, and are used in many forms, e.g. blogs, wikis, mashups, social websites, podcasting and content tagging. This field is having a significant impact on distributed infrastructure and applications, and on the way users and developers interact (link).
Bellamy C. The influence of Web 2 on eResearch and computing infrastructures. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/16/the-influence-of-web-2-on-eresearch-and-computing-infrastructures/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). The influence of Web 2 on eResearch and computing infrastructures. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/16/the-influence-of-web-2-on-eresearch-and-computing-infrastructures/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. The influence of Web 2 on eResearch and computing infrastructures. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/16/the-influence-of-web-2-on-eresearch-and-computing-infrastructures/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, The influence of Web 2 on eResearch and computing infrastructures, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/16/the-influence-of-web-2-on-eresearch-and-computing-infrastructures/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "The influence of Web 2 on eResearch and computing infrastructures." 16 Jun. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/16/the-influence-of-web-2-on-eresearch-and-computing-infrastructures/>
(The new Digital Humanities Observatory in Dublin has some innovative projects. This new ‘VRE’ (Virtual Research Environment) collaborative-style of project may be of interest to viewers).
A collaborative project between the Digital Humanities Observatory, the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and Indiana University Bloomington has been selected to receive a major grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access: Humanities Collections and Resources program (research and development focus). The project, Text-Image Linking Environment (TILE) will over two years develop a new web-based, modular, collaborative image markup tool for both manual and semi-automated linking between encoded text and image of text, and image annotation. Dot Porter, DHO’s Metadata Manager, will lead the team at the DHO.
Bellamy C. Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) wins NEH Grant. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/08/digital-humanities-observatory-dho-wins-neh-grant/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) wins NEH Grant. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/08/digital-humanities-observatory-dho-wins-neh-grant/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) wins NEH Grant. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/08/digital-humanities-observatory-dho-wins-neh-grant/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, Digital Humanities Observatory (DHO) wins NEH Grant, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/08/digital-humanities-observatory-dho-wins-neh-grant/>
(This conference about Labour online may be of interest. From my rudimentary understanding ‘free’ labour online is a fairly contentious issue as online labour may be pooled by large commercial interests and used to accumulate profit without distributing the fruits of this labour to users).
Dear all,
You can now join the discussion about topics of user “labor” related to the conference “The Internet as Playground and Factory.”
* Is it possible to acknowledge the moments of ruthless exploitation while not eradicating optimism, inspiration, and the many instances of individual financial and political empowerment?
* What is labor and where is value produced?
* Are strategies of refusal an effective response to the expropriation of value from interacting users?
* How is the global crisis of capitalism linked to the speculative performances of the digital economy?
* What can we learn from the “cyber sweatshops” class-action lawsuit against AOL under the Fair Labor Standards Act in the early 1990s?
* How does this invisible interaction labor affect our bodies? What were key steps in the history of interaction design that managed to mobilize and structure the social participation of bodies and psyches in order to capture value?
* Most interaction labor, regardless whether it is driven by monetary motivations or not, is taking place on corporate platforms. Where does that leave hopeful projections of a future of non-market peer production?
Bellamy C. The Internet as Playground and Factory. craigbellamy.net. 2009. Available at: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/05/the-internet-as-playground-and-factory/. Accessed March 14, 2010.
APA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. (2009). The Internet as Playground and Factory. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from craigbellamy.net Web site: http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/05/the-internet-as-playground-and-factory/
Chicago citation:
Bellamy, Craig. 2009. The Internet as Playground and Factory. craigbellamy.net. http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/05/the-internet-as-playground-and-factory/ (accessed March 14, 2010).
Harvard citation:
Bellamy, C 2009, The Internet as Playground and Factory, craigbellamy.net. Retrieved March 14, 2010, from <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/05/the-internet-as-playground-and-factory/>
MLA citation:
Bellamy, Craig. "The Internet as Playground and Factory." 5 Jun. 2009. craigbellamy.net. Accessed 14 Mar. 2010. <http://www.craigbellamy.net/2009/06/05/the-internet-as-playground-and-factory/>
...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling some of the digital humanities developments (in a cultural, political and social sense and in terms of books, technologies, and applications)...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary; the broad research fields are the Digital Humanities, Social Software, eResearch, and New Media...
Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am an eResearch Analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (for the Arts and Humanities) based at the University of Melbourne ...and it is my goal to join every online social networking thingee in the whole damn world!...
