• E-research award supports archive of endangered languages

    An archival project that aims to preserve ‘endangered languages’ from across Australia and the Pacific region in a massive database has been rewarded with a major e-research award presented to researchers in the University of Melbourne’s School of Languages and Linguistics. The Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) project has…

  • KevinPM.com.au

    (It doesn’t matter what medium; one thing remains true. Assume your audience are idiots!) Dear Craig , As a supporter of the Kevin07 campaign, I wanted you to be the first to hear about my new website: KevinPM.com.au I’ll be using the site to speak frankly with you about the big challenges facing Australia; the…

  • Digital Preservation Policies Study Now Available

    The JISC are pleased to announce the publication of a study on Digital Preservation Policies which can be downloaded in PDF format from http://www.jisc.ac.uk/publications/publications/jiscpolicyfinalreport.aspx A major business driver in all universities and colleges over the past decade has been harnessing digital content and electronic services and the undoubted benefits in terms of flexibility and increased…

  • Obama for President!

  • London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship

    Thursday 6 November, London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, Room 274/5 (Stewart House), 17:30 – 19:30 Speaker: Martin Mueller (Northwestern) on “The Importance of Not-Reading?” A century ago the German nonsense poet Christian Morgenstern wrote a poem about text-condensing spectacles. Referring to itself as an example of the power of those spectacles, the poem…

  • US election coverage

    From James Norman (Johnstown, Pennsylvania) Here in Johnstown Pennsylvania on the weekend the queues stretched four blocks down the street, past the abandoned factories and old coal mill, a sea of flag waving Republicans had gathered to hear Sarah Palin at the War Memorial. Since her entry onto the national stage as Vice Presidential candidate…