• Between two cultures

    Between two cultures

    A recent post I placed on Humanist, one of the most essential academic initiatives in the Digital Humanities run by Professor Willard McCarty of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King’s College London. In this post, I hijacked the subject somewhat, but this needed to be said because, as I see it, the…

  • Open Science and Data

    As part of JISC’s ‘Research 3.0 – driving the knowledge economy’ activity which launches at the end of November, a new Open Science report released today trails key research trends that could have far-reaching implications for science, universities and UK society. The report written by UKOLN at the University of Bath and the Digital Curation…

  • Call for Nominations for the 2011 Antonio Zampolli Prize

    The Antonio Zampolli Prize is an award of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO). Now in its inaugural year, the prize will be given every three years to honour an outstanding scholarly achievement in humanities computing. It is presented by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) on behalf of its constituent organizations: the…

  • What to do with 30 million books?

    (Posted to that wonderful Digital Humanities list, Humanist). Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 18:22:57 +0100 From: Jockers Matthew <mjockers@stanford.edu> Subject: Possible Text Mining Opportunity at Stanford Friends, As I’m sure many of you already know, Stanford has been closely involved with Google’s book scanning project, and we (Stanford) are currently preparing a proposal for the…

  • Open Access enhances scholarly communication by making the results of research electronically available

    The rhetoric within this JISC promotion of Open Access is a little naive (ie. as if researchers haven’t always communicated their research results), but still there is some good information here about JISC’s initiatives.  Also, check out the podcast by Harvard Historian Robert Darnton (link). Opening the knowledge base to all means more researchers can…

  • Menzies Lecture by Professor Graeme Davison, Monash University, Australia

    Menzies Lecture by Professor Graeme Davison, Monash University, Australia

    Professor Graeme Davidson, an Historian from Monash University in Australia, delivered the annual Menzies Lecture at King’s College London on Tuesday Night (20th October). The lecture is one of the events from the Menzies Centre for Australian Studies at King’s College. In his lecture titled ‘Narrating the Nation’ Graeme discussed the foundation narratives that settlers…