• New Group: Social Software in the Digital Humanities

    (This new group on Arts-humanities.net may be of interest to punters.  It is primarily focussed upon ‘social software’ theory, techniques, and applications within the Digital Humanities.  As it is a new group, we are more than open about its skippering within the choppy Web 2 sea). The aim of this group is to critically discuss…

  • Podcast/Press Release: ‘HE in a Web 2.0 World’ report

    JISC recently released a report on ‘Higher Education in a Web 2.0 World’. The aim of the report is to critically assess recent Web-based developments commonly termed ‘Web 2.0’ and assess them in relation to education and pedagogical practice. The report is available on-line and in hard-copy; plus some of the key findings are discussed…

  • New Resource: British Literary Manuscripts Online c.1660-1900

    (This new resource from the a private company Gale-Cengage Learning looks promising; at least according to the populist blurb in the Telegraph via the Melbourne Age.  Strange how the article fails to mention that it was a homophobic ‘scandal’  and fails to do justice to the true nature of Wild’s and Bosie’s relationship.  There is…

  • Geo-referencing Digitised Collections

    There are a couple of projects underway here at the Centre for eReseach (CeRch) and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities (CCH) about ‘Geo-referencing’. Geo-referencing is a way of ‘tagging’ digital collections so they can be searched by geographical place names or mapped.  Dr Claire Grover of the Language Technology Group, School of Informatics,…

  • How to improve your Twitter voice!

    I have to admit that my twitter voice could be a lot better.  I have just started ‘twitting’ and sort of get it, but don’t quite understand how twitter fits into the social world (and who reads it?).  Still, it is comforting to know that so many of my Digital Humanities colleagues have found my…

  • jill/txt writing with a little help from your friends

    One of the blogs I try and read regularly is by Jill Walker’s from the University of Bergen in Norway .  Jill’s research is within the ‘new media’ field and in large, offers analysis of the use of popular technologies  such as blogs, wikis, and other social software applications within the public sphere (a blog…