• Victorian eResearch Review

    The State Government of Victoria (Australia) has invested a reasonable sum in eResearch activities here in Victoria over recent years. The Government is undertaking a review; the discussion paper is available online with 36 Key Questions (and some of them are really hard like ‘how can the progress and uptake of eResearch be measured’. The…

  • Text Encoding in the Digital Humanities

    I was recently looking for a good article on Text Encoding in the Humanities and found this article written by Allen H Renear. It is a good introduction to Text Encoding and posits a excellent argument on why it is important. This chapter will provide a general orientation to some of the historical and theoretical…

  • Intelligence (squared)

    A interesting crew from Sydney called Intelligence Squared that run deliberative Town-Hall style debates and online forums.  The first one in Melbourne is on the Nuclear Energy debate on March 4 and is run in conjunction with the new Wheeler Centre.

  • How to approach a stranger in London

    Thanks to Alexis B for the link

  • What is VeRSI?

    Overview of VeRSI from VeRSI on Vimeo.

  • Data-Intensive Research: how should we improve our ability to use data

    Today there is a growing abundance of data often in large-scale collections or with great complexity. It is pertinent to every pressing strategic challenge, to the deep questions that research addresses and the urgent application sciences. A great deal of thought is needed to improve our capabilities to use data well in a wide variety…