Author: Craig
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Stern Review on the economics of climate change
Here it is; the report from the UK Government on just how much it will cost us if we do not act upon the looming climate change crisis. Sir Nicholas Stern, Head of the Government Economics Service and Adviser to the Government on the economics of climate change and development, is delighted to present his
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Web Management Principles
An excellent guide from Web Services at the University of Melbourne on Web Management Principles (thanks for making it public). (Click Here .pdf)
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NSW Migration Heritage Online Projects
The Migration Heritage Centre at the Powerhouse Museum is a New South Wales Government initiative supported by the Community Relations Commission. www.migrationheritage.nsw.gov.au They do some excellent online oral history work. See some of the sites that they launched last year (thanks to Annette Loudon Website Coordinator). Belongings http://www.belongings.com.au A Place For The Friendless Female: Sydney’s
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Digital Humanities seminar series at King’s College, London
(from the discussion list, Humanist. This will give you some idea of the projects underway in the Digital Humanities in Europe) This is to announce the forthcoming events of the London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship for 2006-7, a description of which follows. All events take place at 5.30 pm in Senate House, Malet
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What is Digital Humanities?
This is a forum that was on earlier this year. Willard McCarty is from Kings College London, a leader in the field of Digital Humanities. I think that the issue that McCarty is stressing is that Arts Informatics is a practice; ie. it requires an advancement of both the technologies that are useful for the
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History and Hypertext
(Mark Bernstein of Eastgate Systems was in Sydney this month talking about ‘History and Hypertext’…what I did my MA on in 1998). SOME THOUGHTS ON HYPERTEXT AND HISTORICAL NARRATIVE Mark Bernstein At times, hypertext has seemed incompatible with historical narrative, either because non-sequential writing is at odds with understanding cause and effect, or because hypertext