• Materials: THATcamp London 2010

    Thanks to Gabriel B for the information…(link THATCamp; London) dataset format(s) size availability license Archimedes Palimpsest transcriptions XML: TEI P5 5.6 MB http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net/ CC-BY Archimedes Palimpsest images TIFF approx 1 TB http://www.archimedespalimpsest.net/ or on HD CC-BY British Prints Database: http://www.bpi1700.org.uk MySQL dump + online images MySQL dump of metadata: 21.7 MB CD; images http://image.cch.kcl.ac.uk/bpi/ (not…

  • Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920

    Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920

    Founders and Survivors: Australian Life Courses in Historical Context; 1803-1920 Project report. Dr Craig Bellamy, VeRSI, June 2010 I recently attended a project workshop for the ARC funded Founders and Survivors project http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org Led by Professor Janet McCalman from the University of Melbourne, Associate Professor Hamish Maxwell-Stewart from the University of Tasmania, and an interdisciplinary…

  • Obama internet ‘kill switch’ proposed

    US President Barack Obama would be granted powers to seize control of and even shut down the internet under a new bill that describes the global internet as a US “national asset”. Local lobby groups and academics have rounded on the plan, saying that, rather than combat terrorists, it would actually do them “the biggest…

  • Access TEI launched

    From Professor John Unsworth, UIUC, on the CentreNet List Those interested in digitizing text (whether printed or manuscript, in any language) will benefit from the AccessTEI program just launched by the Text Encoding Initiative, in partnership with Apex Covantage and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The program provides bulk-pricing on the transcription…

  • Open Access Publishing and Scholarly Values (part three)

    (A good blog post from Kathleen Fitzpatrick, an Associate Professor, Department of Media Studies, Pomona College, who has taken up the recent online debate on Open Access Publishing). Thanks to Larry Stillman for the link) There’s a fascinating exchange around open access publishing and the reasons scholars might resist it developing right now, beginning with…

  • Digital Humanities as an academic career path…

    Here is a reflective and well-argued post from  Dr Melissa Terras of UCL.  She is one of the Key Notes at this years Digital Humanities conference. …but the point I am making is this. Our academic discipline does not have the same structure as traditional, more established ones. We do not have the obvious career…