• The Digging into Data Challenge: What to do with one million books?

    This is a opportune international development for those in the Digital Humanities. I am not aware of any involvement from King’s, but would be interested to hear from any other UK institutions who plan to compete! The Digging into Data Challenge is an international grant competition sponsored by four leading research agencies, the Joint Information…

  • The Milkbar Manifesto

    The Milkbar Manifesto

    This is a manifesto that I wrote in 1999 to accompany my work Milkbar.com.au (as an angrier man… grrrr). I still believe in most of these things, especially the points that I have highlighted. Passive technological determinism is so engrained in the popular imagination that an entire professional class (many employed in universities )  manipulate…

  • Press Release: Fedora Commons and DSpace Foundation Join Together to Create DuraSpaceâ„¢ Organization

    (This is indeed excellent news for the Open Repositories movement in terms of creating such a large player in the field and in terms of pooling the expertise of both organisation to help foster an open research commons online). (Fedora hats…much more interesting than Press Releases!) Ithaca, NY, Boston, MA — Fedora Commons and the…

  • Tree house party!

    This weekend I am off to Berlin to visit my old friend Emu (yes, his real name and he isn’t even Australian). He has just built a tree house for his son to live in and he is having a party to celebrate. What better reason to go to Berlin!

  • Web 2.0 in higher education

    There is a belief in some circles that Content Management Systems (CMS) such as Joomla and Drupal are labour saving devices and that their very presence online will spontaneously invoke a community of highly-skilled individuals that will submit content and build the system in a coherent and meaningful way. This idea is a myth as…

  • CeRch Project Portfolio

    The centre that I work at here at King’s has an increasing portfolio of projects; some have only recently started and other are either complete or at various stages of completion. Most of the project are digital infrastructure related; some are mass-digitisation projects and a couple are management of digital content related. The projects vary…