Category Archives: web2.0

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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‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’

University of Birmingham,24-25 September, 2009. 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 [...]

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eResearch Australasia Newsletter

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 [...]

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Probing questions in the Digital Humanities?

The ‘Digital Humanities’ is a very difficult field partly because is traverses that very treacherous chasm between the academic and non-academic. Here is a polemic I wrote on Arts-humanities.net on a forum for the DRHA Conference that starts in Belfast today (and if you ask me nicely I will give examples). ____________________________- <soapbox> The essence [...]

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NINES Project: Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online (Peer Review system)

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 [...]

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Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK)

Abstract 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 [...]

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Survey: Virtual Reseach Environment Collaboartive Landscape Study

What is a VRE? “…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 [...]

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  • ...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling digital humanities developments in a cultural, social, and technical sense and in terms of books and applications...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary

    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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