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Registration Open Digital Humanities Australasia 2012
The inaugural Digital Humanities Australasia conference is shaping-up to be a very exciting event. There are a range of excellent international speakers and all the workshops preceding the conference are now confirmed. The registration for the conference is now open.Please register for DHA2012 here: http://aa-dh.org/conference-2/ If you would like to receive a substantial discount to…
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Recovering an ephemeral life online
During the past two decades, the Internet and its applications have become among scholars’ wealthiest sources of bibliographical information. The traces of one’s life online can be rich and varied through email lists, web pages, blogs, video and sound recordings, and publications in various guises. At no other time in history has there been so…
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Review: Sustainable data from digital research conference, Melbourne
A conference was held at the University of Melbourne in December 2011 with the theme sustainable data from digital research organised by Dr Nick Thieberger and colleagues at the School of Languages and Linguistics with assistance from the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) and the new Australasian Association for Digital Humanities (aaDH). The Keynote for…
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White Paper: Political Issue Analysis System (PIAS)
Here is a paper that I co-authored for the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) here at the University of Melbourne. The Political Issues Analysis System (PIAS) project sought to investigate how citizens in Melbourne, Australia used the Internet to seek political information about key political issues. It also sought to understand how citizens contacted…
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Stephen Ramsay: Melbourne December 12
Title of lecture: Found: Data, Textuality, and the Digital Humanities: Please register for this Information Futures event here: Time: Monday, December 12, from 9.30 – 10.30 in the Wood Theatre, Arts West, University of Melbourne (Map: Building 148, Next to Old Arts and Baillieu Library) In this presentation in Melbourne, Stephen Ramsay will discuss some…
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Rethinking the Digital Encyclopaedia Genre: An Australasian Perspective
Defining the Genre The term genre is used here to loosely describe the innovative work that has occurred in constructing and using dictionaries and encyclopaedias in the Australasian region. As computing applications within the humanities have expanded, so too have the boundaries of how we understand these applications. Many digital humanities projects have grown out…
