• GPS Photo-tagging

    GPS photo-tagging units have come along way of late. I just bought a new camera for a project that I hope to do over summer and it requires that I gather the GPS location for all the buildings that I photograph. Some low-end cameras have GPS units built in, but with the more expensive cameras…

  • eResearch Australasia 2010

    In Australia, all forms of computational research come under the banner of ‘eResearch’. This is probably because Australia has such a small population and our academic traditions tend to favour the generalist. Still, I am not sure that it always works and the eResearch Conference is somewhat indicative of this. Although the Scientists and support…

  • Beyond data: making sense of data in the arts and humanities

    I wrote this proposal some time ago and am now in the Gold Coast at eResearch Australasia in which the BOF is a component. Birds of Feather,  Proposal Beyond data: making sense of data in the arts and humanities BOF, eResearch Australasia, VeRSI, Intersect, Academy of the Humanities, 8-12 November, 2010 Dr Craig Bellamy (eResearch…

  • I don’t agree with Architecture!

    One of the more difficult areas that the more service focussed domain of the Digital Humanities traverses is between infrastructure development (ie. large computing systems that link various institutions together) and broader discipline-specific debates in the humanities. A tenured historian or linguist, with many years experience of the field, may be confronted by the decisions…

  • Focussing the debates in DH

    Focussing the debates in DH

    I am involved in several Digital Humanities field-building type activities, which are a lot of fun. These involve Association work, conference event organisation, publishing and presentation work, and some development work. As the field of Digital Humanities is wide open in Australia, it is a reasonably exciting time to contribute to the debates that will…

  • Supporting Digital Humanities

    Supporting Digital Humanities

    A conference is being held 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 crucial distinction to be made here between ‘supporting the digital humanities’ and supporting the humanities. Accordingly, the conference’s aims are…