Author: Craig
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GetUp: Help build a movement
Here is a campaign in Australia at the moment from that great service GetUp. It is to prevent government censorship of the Internet. Thanks to Gabriel B for the link. Only a massive public outcry will make the Government see sense on this issue. That’s why we’re taking a moment to ask you to help…
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What is Aus-e-lit?
(Thanks to the Arts and Humanities eScience support centre at King’s for the link) The Aus-e-Lit project aims to address the eResearch needs of researchers involved in the study of Australian literature and Australian print culture. AustLit is a non-profit collaboration between the National Library of Australia and twelve Universities. It provides an important resource…
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JISC Digitisation Projects
Five centuries of unique resources for learning, teaching and research The JISC Digitisation programme is founded upon the need to build significant e-resources from some of the UK’s greatest collections in a wide variety of formats – sound, images, journals, moving pictures, newspapers and much else. Using the latest technology available, the projects provide the…
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E-research award supports archive of endangered languages
An archival project that aims to preserve ‘endangered languages’ from across Australia and the Pacific region in a massive database has been rewarded with a major e-research award presented to researchers in the University of Melbourne’s School of Languages and Linguistics. The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) project has…