• Tim Berners-Lee on Linked Data

  • Australian Humanities research infrastructure funding (discussion paper)

    Nick Thieberger from here at the University of Melbourne has kindly blogged details about a discussion paper inviting a response from humanities researchers. The discussion paper is about the Federal Governments  ’2011 Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Infrastructure’. All Australian humanities scholars with an interest in digital scholarship should take this brief opportunity to read…

  • THATCamp Melbourne (review)

    I am pretty happy that THATCamp Melbourne is over and done with and that we can now turn our attention to some other projects that will keep the humanities + technology momentum going over the short to longer term.  There were about 60-70 attendees at the event, which is fine and fairly much the average…

  • ‘Australasian Association for the Digital Humanities’

    During a meeting in Canberra yesterday, sponsored by the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a group of us decided to move forward the formation of an formal lobby group and scholarly society to advance the Digital Humanities in the region. I will write more details in a few days after THATCamp Melbourne on Friday.

  • The Digital Humanities: Beyond Computing

    I approach this Digital Humanities journal issue with caution. Although admittedly I have only skimmed the articles (and there are some good arguments being made) someone still needs to make good humanities software to help us understand the human condition in new ways (and these ‘hybrid’ scholars are very much in the minority). I’ll go…

  • Submission Open THATCamp Melbourne

    Submission are now open for THATCamp Melbourne (The Humanities and Technology Camp) that will be held at the University of Melbourne on March 25-26, 2011. http://www.thatcampmelbourne.org/ THATCamp is an ‘un-conference’ that brings together technologist and humanities scholars in an informal setting to make and discuss technologies in the humanities. As part of THATCamp, there will…