• DH2010 keynote – Melissa Terras: Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon

    Melissa Terras giving the keynote speech at the DH2010 conference, 10th July 2010 (link)

  • Back in Melbourne #dh2010

    I am back in Melbourne after attending the Digital Humanities conference at Kings College London and in my short experience of the event; it was by far the best. I get the feeling that the field is at a pivotal moment in its history and without continued institutional support and strong academic leadership, the field…

  • What they are saying’: Political Issue Analysis System (PIAS): Political Issue analysis in an age of the ‘data deluge’

    (This new seeding project has just been accepted for funding from the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne. Led by VeRSI and myself, it is a short project with results available towards the end of the year or early next year). Summary of Proposal The Internet is recognised as a…

  • Materials: THATcamp London 2010

    Thanks to Gabriel B for the information…(link THATCamp; London) dataset format(s) size availability license Archimedes Palimpsest transcriptions XML: TEI P5 5.6 MB http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net/ CC-BY Archimedes Palimpsest images TIFF approx 1 TB http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net/ or on HD CC-BY British Prints Database: http://www.bpi1700.org.uk MySQL dump + online images MySQL dump of metadata: 21.7 MB CD; images http://image.cch.kcl.ac.uk/bpi/ (not…

  • Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920

    Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920

    Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920 Project report. Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, June 2010 I recently attended a project workshop for the ARC funded Founders and Survivors project http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org Led by Professor Janet McCalman from the University of Melbourne, Associate Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart from the University of Tasmania, and an interdisciplinary…

  • Obama internet ‘kill switch’ proposed

    US President Barack Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US “national asset”. Local lobby groups and academics have rounded on the plan, saying that, rather than combat terrorists, it would actually do them “the biggest…