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Post card from Tallinn
I arrived last night in my charming hostel in the Old Town of Tallinn, Estonia. My friend Jaan, whom I worked with in Melbourne a couple of years ago, greeted me at the airport. Estonia is the 42nd country I have visited, and I am not sure why I count how many countries I have…
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What are Open Educational Resources?
As the name suggests, Open Educational Resources (OER) are freely available resources for learning and teaching, such as documents, videos, syllabi, software, and images. The advantage for educators is that these resources may be deposited, shared and re-used, thus saving time in creating new courses or updating existing methods (also, the promotion of the particular…
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Digital Humanities Melbourne in the Pub (7 May 2014)
Dear Melbourne DH folk, Following the DHA 2014 conference in Perth, a group of us are keen to start a regular Melbourne get-together for people working in and around the digital humanities, with the working title: “DH at the Pub”. Our first session is proposed for Wednesday 7 May from 5:30pm at the Prince Alfred…
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Distant reading the past
This is a really interesting thesis underway at King’s. I suspect he is using the Old Bailey records as some of the findings about the Irish and their likelihood of prison are similar to the Founders and Survivors project about class-background and transportation to Tasmania.
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You wish!
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Life beyond the timeline: creating and curating a digital legacy
Abstract: The internet has steadily become integrated with our everyday lives, and it is scarcely worth remarking that the quotidian footprint we leave is increasingly digital. This being the case, the question of what will happen to our digital legacy when we die is an increasing important one. Digital accounts containing emails, photos, videos, music…
