Author: Craig
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I don’t agree with Architecture!
One of the more difficult areas that the more service focussed domain of the Digital Humanities traverses is between infrastructure development (ie. large computing systems that link various institutions together) and broader discipline-specific debates in the humanities. A tenured historian or linguist, with many years experience of the field, may be confronted by the decisions
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Focussing the debates in DH
I am involved in several Digital Humanities field-building type activities, which are a lot of fun. These involve Association work, conference event organisation, publishing and presentation work, and some development work. As the field of Digital Humanities is wide open in Australia, it is a reasonably exciting time to contribute to the debates that will
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Supporting Digital Humanities
A conference is being held in Vienna, Austria titled ‘Supporting Digital Humanities’ (19-20 October). It is the first joint conference between the two major European digital humanities infrastructure projects, CLARIN and DARIAH. There is a crucial distinction to be made here between ‘supporting the digital humanities’ and supporting the humanities. Accordingly, the conference’s aims are
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Emerging Genres in Scholarly Communication
Thanks to Dan Cohen’s blog for the link… Current print-based models of scholarly production, assessment, and publication have proven insufficient to meet the demands of scholars and students in the twenty-first century. In the humanities, what literary scholar James Chandler calls “the predominating tenure genres†of monograph and journal articles find themselves under assault from
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Cyberinfrastructure debates in Australia (Humanities)
For those interested in the Cyberinfrastructure debate within Australia for the humanities, there are a number of key documents to consider. Here is a report produced by Professor Graeme Turner for the Australian Academy of the Humanities titled ‘Towards an Australian Humanities Digital Archive‘. The report came out of a scoping study of Digital Humanities
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A short history of blogging (Part 1)
I first started blogging sometime around 2001. And I just logged onto one of the original blogging systems, Blogger, and discovered that all my posts were still there. The first post that I ever made was in a (private) blog imaginatively called ‘production diary’. And ironically, the very first task I set for my blog