http://www.craigbellamy.net digital humanities, web 2.0, eResearch... Thu, 24 Jul 2008 12:32:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Whether you're researching the habits of marine life, ancient texts or just a new way to market products, you'll likely need some funding to get your studies underway. The Internet is a great place to start looking for sources of funding, and we've put together a list here of a ... http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/07/24/100-places-to-find-funding-for-your-research/ (An article I wrote in 1995 and published on my blog in 2003...follows from the previous post) There is a prevailing historical connection between Australia's colonial experience and our dominant intellectual tradition. Throughout the nation's short history of settlement, most of our leading intellectuals and rulers have displayed a certain ‘practicality' ... http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/07/23/the-death-of-mr-practical-the-practical-man-and-globalisation-2/ All counties have their problems; their institutional problems, their 'thinking' problems. Australian intellectuals are often accused of being too broad and general in their thinking, unable to command the towering heights of research-speciality within the rigours of a solid intellectual paradigm. American intellectuals are often accused of being too careerist; ... http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/07/23/the-great-english-practical-problem-brough-to-you-by-heathrow/ A Finnish internet community is seeking to apply the collective approach taken by online collaborators like the authors of Wikipedia to start converting used petrol-fuelled cars to electric ones, with the first roll-out due this year (link). http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/07/23/crowd-sourcing-the-ecar/ The National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) is the first publicly-funded text mining centre in the world. We provide text mining services in response to the requirements of the UK academic community. NaCTeM is operated by the University of Manchester with close collaboration with the University of Tokyo (link) http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/07/17/what-is-the-national-centre-for-text-mining/ At the Electronic Textual Cultures Laboratory we conduct original research, develop new ways of disseminating information, and foster the innovative adaptation of existing tools. Our cross-disciplinary work in the areas of data-harvesting, textual content analysis, and document encoding puts us at the forefront of a global conversation about the ... http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/07/17/electronic-textual-centres-hub/ As part of its development, the Pre-Raphaelite Resource digitisation project recently commissioned an audience research study to consult users about whether the inclusion of Web 2.0 features on a resource of this type would be useful or important to the education community. The report indicated that: “there is some readiness among ... http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/07/14/is-academic-ready-for-web-20/ Metadata is sometimes defined literally as 'data about data,' but the term is normally understood to mean structured data about resources that can be used to help support a wide range of operations. These might include, for example, resource description and discovery, the management of information resources and their long-term ... http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/07/08/metadata-in-a-nutshell/ Friday 3rd October, 2008 The workshop aims to stimulate discussions between the UK and Australasian arts, humanities and cultural heritage communities about the use of e-Research infrastructures, services, technologies and methodologies. To this end, it is soliciting contributions (both presentations and papers) on topics relevant to e-Research ... http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/06/16/workshop-at-eresearch-australasia-e-research-in-the-arts-humanities-and-cultural-heritage/ Special Session at the 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science (http://escience2008.iu.edu/) December 7-12, 2008, Indianapolis, USA An Initiative of DReSNet: Digital Repositories in e-Science Network (http://www.dresnet.net <http://www.dresnet.net/>) There is a great, untapped potential for synergies between grid/e-science technologies and a cluster of related systems addressing the management of digital assets in digital libraries and repositories. The digital material ... http://www.craigbellamy.net/2008/06/16/adding-value-to-data-digital-repositories-in-the-e-science-world/