Month: April 2008
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About the Enabling Uptake of e-Infrastructure Services Project
The project will develop strategies aimed at increasing and widening adoption of e-infrastructure and significantly increasing the user-base of JISC funded services. Involvement of actual or potential users of e-infrastructure services is a key element in this: we aim to provide the ground for a change in culture, in the way that researchers see their…
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London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship
The London Seminar in Digital Text & Scholarship focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate research and provide a broad forum…
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What is the Digital Curation Centre?
Scientists, researchers and scholars across the UK generate increasingly vast amounts of digital data, with further investment in digitisation and purchase of digital content and information. The scientific record and the documentary heritage created in digital form are at risk from technology obsolescence, from the fragility of digital media, and from lack of the basics…
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ToolFoundry: Investigating an opensource repository and development ‘ecosystem’ for tools in the digital arts and humanities
(This is a proposal to extend ICT Guides; your comments are most welcome) ToolFoundry: Investigating an opensource repository and development ‘ecosystem’ for tools in the digital arts and humanities Summary: C.1 The aim of this small-scale prototype study is to investigate and build a prototype design of a unique opensource community driven repository and development…
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“Romulus My Father” – Trailer
This is a new Australian movie; showing here at King’s on the 13th December. Raimond Gaita, who wrote the book on which is it based, apparently works here.
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Harlem Gospel and LA glitz
I’m on holidays at the mo. This promises to be one of the best holidays ever; although boy am I feeling world-weary. This has been my biggest year ever travelling; at least in the geographical sense. I have probably travelled about 60,000 miles; so airports and escalators are beginning to look a bit grim. Still;…