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Digital Humanities Australasia 2012: Review
The newly formed Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH) held its inaugural conference Digital Humanities Australasia: Building, Mapping, Connecting in Canberra, 26-30 March 2012. The event was the first major conference of its type in Australia, bringing together some of the leading figures in the digital humanities internationally and showcasing some innovative new research in…
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Another vision?
Suppose there is to be another so-called broader vision of ‘computers in the humanities’ at this stage of development. In that case, there needs to be much more work done in terms of ‘research into research’ (i.e. especially into humanities research practices). The practical and urgent problems of science require many talented people to address…
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eResearch and Digital Humanities: a broader vision?
I have been having many conversations with people of late around the boundaries eResearch and Digital Humanities. I have received many divergent and exciting responses from researchers and professionals working in various ways with computing in the humanities. There does tend to be little agreement about certain aspects of the landscape; many researchers have discovered…
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Harold Short ‘Collaborative Scholarship in the Digital Humanities’ Melbourne
Just a reminder that Professor Harold Short will speak in Melbourne this Friday, 27 April 2012. Synopsis: What challenges do arts and humanities scholars face in collaborative interdisciplinary research? This question is significant for the Digital Humanities, whose disciplinary identity and character are intrinsically multidisciplinary. Drawing on the twenty years of experience in multidisciplinary research…
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Data versus method (data needs heads!)
I have been thinking a little more about the relationship between eResearch and Digital Humanities of late, partly because it is the subject of my talk at the Digital Humanities conference in Hamburg in July, and I want to do justice to what I see as a critical topic that hasn’t been mainly well handled…
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Where is the theoretical base in eResearch? eResearch versus eLearning
Recently, I have been reading quite a lot about eLearning. I know it is one of those words with an e in front of it. Still, rather than simply existing on the superficial level of language, the sub-field of eLearning is a vibrant one with numerous scholarly contributions, journals, associations, and software. Â One of…
