Author: Craig
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Tree house party!
This weekend I am off to Berlin to visit my old friend Emu (yes, his real name and he isn’t even Australian). He has just built a tree house for his son to live in and he is having a party to celebrate. What better reason to go to Berlin!
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CeRch Project Portfolio
The centre that I work at here at King’s has an increasing portfolio of projects; some have only recently started and other are either complete or at various stages of completion. Most of the project are digital infrastructure related; some are mass-digitisation projects and a couple are management of digital content related. The projects vary
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Anti-intellectualism: Causes
I found this in an unlikely source. A spiritual site. It is the paragraph on ‘pragmatism’ (or at least practicality) that caught my eye. It is not that there is anything wrong with ‘pragmatism’; pragmatism is needed to address all sorts of work related tasks. But pragmatism is rarely ideological neutral. It is what pragmatists
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RIP Chrysler
When I was a Kid in Tasmania my mother owned a mission brown Chrysler Valiant VIP. It was as big as a whale. In the back seat it had pull down trays and spot lights like an aeroplane. It had a huge roaring motor that drank fuel like there was no tomorrow. My mother would
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JISC Digitisation projects
JISC (the Joint Information Services Committee) fund a number of digitisation projects with content that spans nearly five centuries of British history. Some notable examples include British Newspapers 1620-1900 and the 19th Century Pamphlets Online. The manifold importance of digitisation is that the records are made easily accessible to scholars and the general public, and