Category: digital humanities
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Journal of William John Wills (TEI)
Conal Tuohy and I taught a 3-hour introduction to last Thursday (30 September). The major exercise that the class undertook was to encode in TEI the diary of William John Wills; an explorer who died whilst trying to cross Australia in the 19th Century. It makes for pretty interesting reading right up to when he…
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Text Encoding Initative (TEI) and Humanities Research
Conal Tuohy and myself will teach a short, introductory workshop on TEI and humanities research on the 30th September. Details are below. There are still places available; just send me an email if you wish to come. 2-5pm, Thursday 30 September 2010 Student Computer Lab, Room G22, John Medley East Training Objective: This workshop will…
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THATCamp Canberra (review) Saturday August 28-29
THATCamp (The Humanities and Technology Camp) was held in Canberra on the weekend of August 28-29 at the University of Canberra. This was my second THATCamp having attended my first in London in early July as part of the Digital Humanities Conference. The THATCamp ‘movement’ originated at the Centre for History and New Media at…
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CALL for Paper: Digital Humanities 2010, Stanford, 19-22 June
Wow, it seems like I was just there. Here is the call for paper for next years Digital Humanities conference in Stanford Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Digital Humanities 2011 Call for Papers Hosted by Stanford University 19-22 June 2011 http://dh2011.stanford.edu Abstract deadline: Â November 1, 2010 (Midnight GMT). Please note: Â The Program Committee will not…
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Decoding Digital Humanities (Melbourne)
We held our second DDH last night in the Price Alfred Hotel in Carlton. Individuals from the Public Records Office, the University of Melbourne, Victoria University, and VeRSI showed up. As it was no longer the beginning of semester, the pub was safe from pub-crawling students. We discussed issues such as history online (and its…
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Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopedia Group
One of the most important ‘digital humanities’ groups working in Australia is the Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopaedia group. They have a meeting coming up soon; possibly in Melbourne. Keep an eye on there web-site or subscribe to their list. The Australia and New Zealand Digital Encyclopaedia Group (ANZDEG) is a loose affiliation of…