Category: digital humanities
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Discounted members places for DHA2014
ADHO, the Association of Digital Humanities Associations (in which the aaDH is associated) has a new discounted members category, which is a good way to join the aaDH. It costs about $45 to join, but this is without the subscription to LLC. And if you join aaDH, you get a discount of $150 to register…
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5 most important (computing) technologies for the humanities
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Digital humanities and the democracy of old school
This is my last post of the year (and many of you may sigh in relief). I will write about the debates about the DH as a field again and my shifting perspectives. Ideas such as the methodological commons and collaboration as justification for the area are exhausted concepts, and far from unique and special,…
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Is the digital humanities its ‘own thing’?
It wasn’t long ago that I argued (strongly) that the digital humanities is its own thing. There was so much work in ‘the field’ and so many unique and hard-won perspectives that this constitutes a field of practice. But as my views mature, I am much less precious about the DH and its place in…
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A lifetime of flexible learning..
I have been quiet of late, partly because I have been changing direction, and it takes a little while to turn the ship around. I have moved into the ‘flexible’ or ‘blended learning’ field, which I have been trying to do for a couple of years. And the area is enormous and quite refreshing after…
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Examples of structured and un-structured data
Here are some examples of structured and unstructured data projects and services (which at times overlap). And remember that data is almost always wrong but sometimes it is useful! Structured data (Pre-defined and machine-readable, is locatable and usually has a relational ‘data model’ and usually is about real-world objects) What is meta-data? (Australian National Data…