Author: Craig
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New forms of doctorate
I attended an ESRC funded seminar today and organised by the Landsdown Centre for Electronic Arts on new forms of doctorates. This was the third seminar in the series. As someone who undertook a practice based PhD some years back (that admittedly was not altogether a totally a rewarding institutional experience), I found the seminar
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Digital Classicist/ICS Work in Progress Seminar, Summer 2009
This years Digital Classics seminar is due to begin on June 5. The classics field is one of the most active in the Digital Humanities and this years seminar has attracted many international speakers discussing diverse topics from Herodotus, to Philology, to agent-based modelling. For those historians and academics who are not particularly strong in
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The Digging into Data Challenge: What to do with one million books?
This is a opportune international development for those in the Digital Humanities. I am not aware of any involvement from King’s, but would be interested to hear from any other UK institutions who plan to compete! The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information
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The Milkbar Manifesto
This is a manifesto that I wrote in 1999 to accompany my work Milkbar.com.au (as an angrier man… grrrr). I still believe in most of these things, especially the points that I have highlighted. Passive technological determinism is so engrained in the popular imagination that an entire professional class (many employed in universities ) manipulate
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Press Release: Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpaceâ„¢ Organization
(This is indeed excellent news for the Open Repositories movement in terms of creating such a large player in the field and in terms of pooling the expertise of both organisation to help foster an open research commons online). (Fedora hats…much more interesting than Press Releases!) Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA — Fedora Commons and the