• Under the Southern Cross

    The Weston Room, Maughan Library & Information Services Centre, Chancery Lane Tuesday 9 September – Saturday 13 December 2008 9.30-17.00, Monday to Saturday >From classical antiquity Europeans speculated on the existence of a continent in the Southern Hemisphere and imagined what it might contain. The voyages of men like Abel Tasman in the seventeenth century…

  • Nature: Big Data

    The journal Nature has just come out with its latest issue, which includes a special section on “Big Data” — the flood of scientific data and its implications for science and for scholarly communication. It includes several superb articles, and a brief commentary that I’ve written on data curation issues. Readers interested in cyberinfrastructure, e-science…

  • Winners Portable Film Festival

    After a month of deliberation, fandom, and some pretty abject name calling, Portable is proud to announce the winners of its 2008 festival, chosen by the likes of you! Specially designed robots, working an algorhythm between total views, total ratings, and overall rating for each film, have worked night and day in front of one…

  • Subject: [HASTAC] HASTAC Scholars Forum with Howard Rheingold: Participatory Learning launches Mon., August 25

    Hello everyone, Howard Rheingold will be vlogging on participatory learning with HASTAC Scholars starting August 25 on www.hastac.org. The HASTAC Scholars Program will kick-off the week of August 25th with an inaugural Scholars-led discussion forum exploring the topic of “Participatory Learning” and featuring social networking pioneer Howard Rheingold. The topic coincides with the theme of…

  • Protocol for image capture

    The Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online project at the University of Cambridge has produced a Protocol for Digital Image Capture which may be of interest to those undertaking digitisation projects (link).

  • VERSI eResearch Award (Victoria, Australia)

    VeRSI is pleased to announce the 2008 VeRSI eResearch Award – recognizing outstanding Victorian researchers who are using ICT to enhance their research. The eResearch Award is sponsored by Dell, a supplier to VeRSI of eResearch hardware solutions. There are two prizes, of equal value, recognizing research in the Sciences and in the Humanities, Arts…