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10 years of blogging…
I am crossing a small milestone this month; it has been ten years since I started blogging! I had a blog before this in the late 90s, but this was primarily to publish lists of things (one of the first uses of blogs). Then, I started a history blog (history.net.au). Still, historical knowledge does not…
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Is the digital humanities its ‘own thing’?
It wasn’t long ago that I argued (strongly) that the digital humanities is its own thing. There was so much work in ‘the field’ and so many unique and hard-won perspectives that this constitutes a field of practice. But as my views mature, I am much less precious about the DH and its place in…
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A lifetime of flexible learning..
I have been quiet of late, partly because I have been changing direction, and it takes a little while to turn the ship around. I have moved into the ‘flexible’ or ‘blended learning’ field, which I have been trying to do for a couple of years. And the area is enormous and quite refreshing after…
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What Australian’s think of the NBN
The National Broadband Network (NBN), regardless of who steers the rest of the build, is a significant infrastructure project for Australia. And we all know its cost, technical configuration, corporate configuration, end-user value-proposition, economic benefit, social benefit and roll-out pace have all been subject to claims and counterclaims. But what do the people who will…
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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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Examples of structured and un-structured data
Here are some examples of structured and unstructured data projects and services (which at times overlap). And remember that data is almost always wrong but sometimes it is useful! Structured data (Pre-defined and machine-readable, is locatable and usually has a relational ‘data model’ and usually is about real-world objects) What is meta-data? (Australian National Data…
