Hi all,

If anyone has any interesting Digital Humanities feeds, then please send them my way. I am feeding them through a Wordpress installation using a nifty feed plug in as well as filtering through Yahoo Pipes. The site primarily has an Australian focus, but any feed is welcome.

2cultures.net

Craig

A one day seminar was held at Trinity College Dublin on Wednesday 14 October to discuss Ireland’s contributions to the Digital Humanities and the possible futures of the field within Ireland. http://dho.ie/node/634 The seminar, held in a skilfully restored 19th Century Anatomy lecture theatre, was attended by representatives from government, the Irish Research Council (IRCHSS), universities, and industry (Microsoft, IBM, Intel). The keynote speaker was Professor Tony Hey, Corporate Vice President of Microsoft’s External Research and former head of the UK’s eScience Core Programme. [read more...]

I attended the ‘Tools for Scholarly Editing over the Web’ workshop on Thursday (25 September) organised by the Institute for Textual Scholarship and Electronic Editing at the University of Birmingham. http://www.itsee.bham.ac.uk/vmr/toolscfp.htm There were presentation by many leading figures of electronic textual editing from the US, Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, and Britain. The workshop was organised to discuss the movement towards online collaborative tools for scholarly editing and the problems and opportunities associated with this. [read more...]

I attended the Oxford Social Media Convention 2009 on Friday (18 September) at the Said Business School. The theme of the Convention was ‘assessing the evolution, impact and potential of social media’; a fairly monumental tasks for a one day convention with speakers from both sides of the Atlantic and from the Academy, business, media, and politics. [read more...]

The VRE Collaborative Landscape Study project is one of several studies commissioned by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) to research on-line research collaboration in [read more...]

I recently attended the XXIII International Congress of History of Science and Technology in Budapest Hungary. [read more...]

The JISC Virtual Research Environment (VRE) III kick-off meeting was held at the University of Leicester 8-9 July 2009. [read more...]

I attended the OpenTech ’09 forum on Saturday; organised by the UK Unix Users Group and friends at the University of London Union (ULU). [read more...]

I recently attended a workshop sponsored by the Joint information Systems Committee (JISC) that presented some of the findings from the JISC funded community engagement and virtual research environmen [read more...]

A theme run by the eScience Institute in Edinburgh may be of interest to subscribers. They have a number of initiatives coming up including a user-engagement workshop to be held in Jan/Feb of 2010. [read more...]