Category: digitisation
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What happens when a blog gets old?
As this blog is approaching its thirteenth birthday , I thought that it was about time that I purged some of the fluffy, ephemeral posts that really don’t need to travel with me any longer. The problem with much online media is that a post or comment, that possibly took ten seconds to write, may…
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Death and the Internet
Just as the internet has been integrated into everyday life, it is also increasingly entwined with dying, grieving and memorialising, presenting new challenges. Planning and managing online assets and profiles is an increasingly urgent issue for internet users. Yet, there needs to be more evidence about the implications of this issue for Australians. The team…
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Supporting Digital Humanities
There is a conference being held at the moment in Vienna, Austria titled ‘Supporting Digital Humanities’ (19-20 October). It is the first joint conference between the two major European digital humanities infrastructure projects, CLARIN and DARIAH. There is a very important distinction to be made here between ‘supporting the digital humanities’ and supporting the humanities.…
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Cyberinfrastructure debates in Australia (Humanities)
For those interested in the Cyberinfrastructure debate within Australia for the humanities, there are a number of key documents to consider. Here is a report produced by Professor Graeme Turner for the Australian Academy of the Humanities titled ‘Towards an Australian Humanities Digital Archive‘. The report came out of a scoping study of Digital Humanities…
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Vatican Library to digitise 80,000 manuscripts
Thanks to Andrew T for the (link). Monsignor Cesare Pasini, Prefect of the Vatican Library, sent out an “extraordinary” Newsletter 5/2010 on 24 March (see full text as posted by the Evangelical Textual Criticism blog) announcing plans to digitise 80,000 manuscripts held by the Vatican Library. Planning and consulting, as well as testing of workflow…
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The Google Book Settlement 18th February 2010
I am just reading Professor Robert Darnton’s new book titled ‘The Case for Books’. Darnton is a well know book historian, especially of the French Enlightenment, and made the bold career move to become Harvard’s Librarian. Admittedly ‘the Case for Books’ is not that good, especially for those who have been involved in academic publishing…