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Peter Conrad Boyer Lectures
Radio National – Boyer Lectures Peter Conrad is doing this year’s Boyer Lectures on Radio National. The 40 year old lecture series is a commentary by prominant Australians. Conrad is a Professor of Literature at Oxford at was born in Tasmania (he was a Rhodes Scholar like Richard Flanagan). His book ‘Down Home’is about returning…
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Australian E-Humanities Gateway
Australian e-Humanities Gateway The Australian e-Humanities Gateway is designed as a reference point for those involved in or seeking information about projects and events concerned with the use of digital resources in humanities disciplines in Australia. It has a section called ‘going digital’ that may assist in terms of standards for online digital works.
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Distributed Networks
A “distributed network” is a term that is used to describe the construction of an art work or the construction of a narrative across a ‘distributed network’ such as the Internet (I have yet to discover what this might mean for an historian). There is an excellent paper online written by Dr Jill Walker of…
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Connecting the Dots
Connecting the dots By Mark Frauenfelder October 19, 2004 Next Tim Berners-Lee…worries that poorly conceived changes to the web’s organisation and governance could compromise its functionality and “universality”. Photo: AP Creating the World Wide Web didn’t make Tim Berners-Lee instantly rich or famous. That’s partly because the web sprang from relatively humble technologies. Berners-Lee’s invention…
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Why Make an Electronic Thesis in the Humanities?
Synopis In comparison to many other countries-most notably Canada, the United States,and the United Kingdom-the disciplines that form the humanities in Australia have made few visible inroads into advancing humanities knowledge on-line. There are no dedicated humanities computing centres in Australia, there are few individuals working in the field, and Australians are not well-represented on…
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Ted Hughes: The Existential Song
Once upon a time There was a man Running for his life. This was his fate. It was a hard fate. But Fate is Fate He had to keep running He began to wonder about Fate. And running for dear life. Who? Why? And was he nothing But some dummy hare on a racetrack? At…
