Building a Collaborative Knowledge Space for Humanist Scholars

The University of Sydney has made some bold moves into Humanities Computing and Social Software in recent years. Their ‘Knowledge Space’ initiative, led in part by Ian Johnson, Director of the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, is one of the most interesting projects of its type in Australia. Here is an abstract of a talk that he gave at the Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities (IATH)

It is becoming increasingly difficult for scholars to keep pace with the deluge of new information sources and the development of new methods of academic communication. Most people, particularly in the Arts and Humanities, have neither time, expertise nor motivation to keep abreast of ever-changing technologies. However, by not doing so, they miss out on new methods of taming old monsters, and on new opportunities for research, teaching and outreach (link).

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