• Roy Rosenzweig fellowship for innovation in digital history

    (Roy Rosenzweig is the founder of the Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University in the US. The centre is progressive in both its approach to history and technological innovation. This fellowship may be of interest to you budding digital humanists out there). In 2009, George Mason University and the American Historical…

  • Digital Futures London 2009

    This workshop is conduced periodically by my colleague at the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH), Simon Tanner. It is designed for those who manage or wish to undertake digitisation projects.  It is an extensive course and includes topics such as applying for funding, metadata and most importantly, the  sustainability of digital resources (link).

  • New Book: Digital Scholarship

    A interesting new book on Digital Scholarship was released in December called ‘Digital Scholarship’; edited by Marta Mestrovic Deyrup. I haven’t ordered, read, and reviewed  this book as yet (it doesn’t come cheap at 57 pounds). What I see as one of the grand challenges of digital resources and scholarship is developing an explicit understanding…

  • GRIT 02: Illusions of Homogeneity

    Let’s hope that the grand dreams of eResearch aren’t about ‘research homogeneity’ as cultural homogeneity may have become the case in other areas of cultural activity (thanks to Andrew Garton, the performer, for the link). GRIT 02 examines the death of analogue broadcasting by way of readings from numerous sources describing the process of enclosure…

  • ‘I believe in the genital organs of great men and women…’

    The sad death of a great humanist. RIP JG Ballard. (Thanks to Gabriel B for the link)

  • Twitter activism

    (picture from the Independent) This story is from the Guardian, then to the Melbourne Age, then to this  blog. I am not sure if this was truly ‘twitter activism’ as the story claims; but still the nativity in which many institutions approach Web 2.0 and its potential for political mobilisation astonished me.  All technology is…