Category: e-science
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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…
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What is technological determinism?
Technological determinism is circulated, maintained, and advanced within the pre-existing hierarchies in the world in which we live. Determinism has its own political agendas, its own rules, its own contexts and hierarchies and antagonisms to an imagined ‘other’. Determinism utilises a proprietary language and culture and although it cloaks itself in ideas of inter-disciplinary, deterministic…
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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…
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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…
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JISC Digitisation projects
JISC (the Joint Information Services Committee) fund a number of digitisation projects with content that spans nearly five centuries of British history. Some notable examples include British Newspapers 1620-1900 and the 19th Century Pamphlets Online. The manifold importance of digitisation is that the records are made easily accessible to scholars and the general public, and…
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Mapping the worlds photos
This article from David Crandall et.al at Cornell University may be of interest. An historian asked me the other day what were the majore concerns of the Digital Humanities. I tried to explain that once there is a lot of data; like all the books in the 19th Century being in digital form, or all…