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DHA2012: Building the field of practice…
The weeks after Digital Humanities Australasia have been productive in that I have had time to reflect upon my practice and thinking within the field. The Digital Humanities is a somewhat ill-defined space in Australia, so it requires specific diplomatic skills and cognitive talent to find productive links in disparate research and teaching practices. And…
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An Opinion piece in the Canberra Times on Professor Hugh Craig’s use of stylometrics in his workshop at DHA2012
John Keats once wrote to a friend that Shakespeare ”has left nothing to say about nothing or any thing”. There’s plenty still to say about Shakespeare himself, however, and at least one centuries-old truism about him was recently toppled – and by an Australian. Shakespeare had an extraordinarily large vocabulary, and this is a significant…
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The Author of History in the Age of Electronic Reproduction: Hypertext and the Historian
This is my 1998 Masters thesis completed at the University of Melbourne in 1998. This was my first serious inroads into the ‘digital humanities’ and some of the language within it now seems very dated (ie CD ROM). I was reflecting upon how I entered the digital humanities after being prompted in a stimulating article…
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Registration Open Digital Humanities Australasia 2012
The inaugural Digital Humanities Australasia conference is shaping-up to be a very exciting event. There are a range of excellent international speakers and all the workshops preceding the conference are now confirmed. The registration for the conference is now open.Please register for DHA2012 here: http://aa-dh.org/conference-2/ If you would like to receive a substantial discount to…
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Recovering an ephemeral life online
During the past two decades, the Internet and its applications have become among scholars’ wealthiest sources of bibliographical information. The traces of one’s life online can be rich and varied through email lists, web pages, blogs, video and sound recordings, and publications in various guises. At no other time in history has there been so…
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Review: Sustainable data from digital research conference, Melbourne
A conference was held at the University of Melbourne in December 2011 with the theme sustainable data from digital research organised by Dr Nick Thieberger and colleagues at the School of Languages and Linguistics with assistance from the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) and the new Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). The Keynote for…
