• White Paper: Political Issue Analysis System (PIAS)

    Here is a paper that I co-authored for the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) here at the University of Melbourne. The Political Issues Analysis System (PIAS) project sought to investigate how citizens in Melbourne, Australia used the Internet to seek political information about key political issues. It also sought to understand how citizens contacted…

  • Stephen Ramsay: Melbourne December 12

    Title of lecture: Found: Data, Textuality, and the Digital Humanities: Please register for this Information Futures event here: Time: Monday, December 12, from 9.30 – 10.30 in the Wood Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne (Map: Building 148, Next to Old Arts and Baillieu Library) In this presentation in Melbourne, Stephen Ramsay will discuss some…

  • Rethinking the Digital Encyclopaedia Genre: An Australasian Perspective

    Defining the Genre The term genre is used here to loosely describe the innovative work that has occurred in constructing and using dictionaries and encyclopaedias in the Australasian region. As computing applications within the humanities have expanded, so too have the boundaries of how we understand these applications. Many digital humanities projects have grown out…

  • Visualising movie narratives

    From www.xkcd.com A visualisation such as this can be used as a tool of analysis like any other (and It would be good to have access to the data from where is came; otherwise it is just a pretty picture).

  • eResearch in an international information environment: developments, challenges and responses

    eResearch in an international information environment: developments, challenges and responses

    Synopsis: The application of diverse eResearch infrastructures to support research has a long history. During the 1970s, the genesis of eResearch in the shape of the Internet was driven by the research community’s needs. In this latest stage of eResearch infrastructure development, also primarily driven by the needs of the research, we are witnessing large-scale investments…

  • Book Logic 2012