Author: Craig

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
400 Years of Jamestown and ‘Virtual Jamestown’

It is 400 years since the British first landed in North America and none other than the Queen of England is in the United States to celebrate. And here is a site that I worked on some years ago produced by the Virginia Centre for Digital History at the University of Virginia. I did the…
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May 9, 2007

digital humanities, education, events, history, humanities computing
Humanist List 20 Years Old

Humanist, the online discussion list for the Digital Humanities, run by Willard McCarty here at King’s College, London is now 20 years old. Renown for it’s erudite discussion, here is a telling snippet from Willard. Humanist must be one of the oldest lists on the Internet; perhaps the oldest. I would like to hear from…
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May 9, 2007

deliberation, digital humanities, humanities computing, social media

Author: Craig

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

400 Years of Jamestown and ‘Virtual Jamestown’

Humanist List 20 Years Old