Author: Craig

What is myExperiment?

myExperiment makes it really easy for the next generation of scientists to contribute to a pool of scientific workflows, build communities and form relationships. myExperiment enables scientists to share, re-use and repurpose workflows and reduce time-to-experiment, share expertise and avoid reinvention (link).
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May 18, 2007

digital humanities, e-science, humanities computing, social media, web2.0
Darwin’s letters on the Web

The AHDS (Arts and Humanities Data Service) provided some of the initial advice for this project. And boy did Charles Darwin write a lot of letters! Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin thought the voyage of the Beagle was a “magnificent scheme” allowing him to spend time “larking round the world”. His delight at the five-year cruise…
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May 17, 2007

digital humanities, history, humanities computing, internet
Arts and Humanities Research Council and the AHDS part ways

(strange…I thought that a ‘centralised service’…like the AHRC itself, would be the most efficient means of storing digital data…and the last 2 sentences are just plain dumb…as if ‘making websites’ has had anything to do with the Digital Humanities or the AHDS…and ‘HEIs understanding the issues involved in the storage of long term data’…like sure;…
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May 15, 2007

digital humanities, e-science, humanities computing, social media, web2.0
Web 2 Business ideas

Australian companies are starting to twig that Web 2.0 isn’t just the latest trend for designing web pages – it can be a vital business tool. Brad Howarth reports (link)
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May 15, 2007

social media, web2.0
Map of Online Communities

Most of the actual tests are open to anyone who has passed 70-270. A small number needs 646-204 to their credit as well, in order to sit for 642-901 later. This is why no one usually pays attention to 220-601. __________________________ here is a map of online communities (web 2.0) complements of xkcd
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May 14, 2007

social media, web2.0
Towards an institutional typology of digital humanities centres

Thanks to John Unsworth for the link… This Wiki presents a structured list of departments, centres, institutes and other institutional forms that variously instantiate humanities computing. For each entry a link is provided to the relevant site on the WWW and a brief description given. This list represents an ongoing attempt to derive a basic…
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May 11, 2007

communuity informatics, digital humanities, e-science, education, humanities computing, social media, software

Author: Craig

What is myExperiment?

Darwin’s letters on the Web

Arts and Humanities Research Council and the AHDS part ways

Web 2 Business ideas

Map of Online Communities

Towards an institutional typology of digital humanities centres