Author: Craig
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In Tasmania…
OK, sorry that I have been a slow blogger of late but I am in Tasmania and the Internet connection that I have is not that swift. Normal viewing will resume shortly.
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Digital Humanities in India
I am not sure if there is a defined ‘Digital Humanities’ field in India (where I am at the moment), but there is activity occurring in numerous places. The Library Science is one area to find Digital Humanities activities in India as per this International Conference on Digital Libraries in New Delhi early in 2010.
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The Digital Future is Now: A Call to Action for the Humanities
This paper is based upon the Keynote lecture given at Digital Humanities 2009 in Maryland, USA, by Professor Christine Borgman (link). ABSTRACT The digital humanities are at a critical moment in transitioning from a speciality area to a full-fledged community with a standard set of methods, sources of evidence, and infrastructure necessary for achieving academic
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Ordnance Survey maps to go free online
The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian’s three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move will bring the UK into line with the free publication of maps that exists in the US. Gordon Brown announced the change at a joint
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Between two cultures
A recent post I placed on Humanist, one of the most essential academic initiatives in the Digital Humanities run by Professor Willard McCarty of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London. In this post, I hijacked the subject somewhat, but this needed to be said because, as I see it, the
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Open Science and Data
As part of JISC’s ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity which launches at the end of November, a new Open Science report released today trails key research trends that could have far-reaching implications for science, universities and UK society. The report written by UKOLN at the University of Bath and the Digital Curation