• DH2010, Review, #DH2010

    (Opening Address, Digital Humanities 2010) Digital Humanities 2010, King’s College London, 7-10 July, 2010. Members of the VeRSI team attended the Digital Humanities Conference at King’s College London (7-10 July); the annual conference of the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations.  The conference in its various guises has been running for 22 years or 37 years…

  • THATCamp Canberra: Applications Closes July 23

    Just a reminded that applications for THATCamp Canberra; the Humanities and Technology Camp (28-29 August), closes on July 23. These are excellent events and I would encourage digital humanists to attend. I just attended THATCamp London and there were a diverse range of sessions and lots of rigorous debate.  The application process is simple; just…

  • Google and the Digital Humanities

    We’ve given awards to 12 projects led by 23 researchers at 15 universities: Steven Abney and Terry Szymanski, University of Michigan. Automatic Identification and Extraction of Structured Linguistic Passages in Texts. Elton Barker, The Open University, Eric C. Kansa, University of California-Berkeley, Leif Isaksen, University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Google Ancient Places (GAP): Discovering historic…

  • DH2010 keynote – Melissa Terras: Present, Not Voting: Digital Humanities in the Panopticon

    Melissa Terras giving the keynote speech at the DH2010 conference, 10th July 2010 (link)

  • Back in Melbourne #dh2010

    I am back in Melbourne after attending the Digital Humanities conference at Kings College London and in my short experience of the event; it was by far the best. I get the feeling that the field is at a pivotal moment in its history and without continued institutional support and strong academic leadership, the field…

  • What they are saying: Political Issue Analysis System (PIAS): Political issue analysis in an age of the data deluge

    What they are saying: Political Issue Analysis System (PIAS): Political issue analysis in an age of the data deluge

    (This new seeding project has just been accepted for funding from the Institute for Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) at the University of Melbourne. Led by VeRSI and myself, it is a short project with results available towards the end of the year or early next year). Summary of Proposal The Internet is recognised as a…