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New Book: Joseph Camilleri and Jim Falk “Worlds in Transition: Evolving Governance Across a Stressed Planet”, Edward Elgar, UK, December 2009
The book that I worked on in 2006 as a Research Assistant with Professor Jim Falk is to be launched this Friday at the University of Technology; Sydney. The book is about the rise of ‘global governance’; driven by crisis such as climate and technological changes (I worked on the technology chapter). The argument, and…
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Leaked climate change emails scientist ‘hid’ data flaws
This is one of the reasons we have eScience and citable, re-usable (and verifible) data. Phil Jones, the beleaguered British climate scientist at the centre of the leaked emails controversy, is facing fresh claims that he sought to hide problems in key temperature data on which some of his work was based. A Guardian investigation…
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The new Wheeler Centre Melbourne
The new Wheeler Centre is about to open in Melbourne and is hosting a number of events. It appear to be somewhere between a think tank and writers centre. Can’t wait! Our City of Literature status is not about Dickens on the tram, Nabokov in the Great Southern Stand or a Bronte or two over…
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Tim Berners Lee on free data and the BBC’s Virtual Revolution
Tim Berners-Lee discusses the launch of the government’s new open data project, and Dan Gluckman explains why the BBC was so keen to open the development of a new series about the social history of the web (link) Also see: http://data.gov.uk/
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Manuscript account of Newton’s apple made public
The manuscript is one of a number published online to mark the 350th anniversary of the Royal Society, Britain’s national academy of science, and can be accessed at www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages (from the Age)
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TEI by example
The Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies (CTB) of the Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature, the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) of King’s College London, and the Department of Information Studies of University College London, are pleased to announce that funding has been secured to develop the online resource “TEI…
