Category: history
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The Role of Coopertation in History
HUM 202 — Toward a Literacy of Cooperation This link was sent by Andrew Garton of Toysatellite. It concerns a lecture series at Stanford University about the history of cooperation (as apposed to ‘Darwins blind spot’ being his theory of natural selection). It proposes that the history of evolution overlooks the history of coopertaion (and…
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Online Archiving: The PANIC project
PANIC This is a project produced by Jane Hunter et.al at DSTC. It is called PANIC or Preservation webservices Architecture for Newmedia and Interactive Collections.
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Significance and Archiving
Often I participate in a list called Fibreculture with the occasional ‘gadfly’. The list’s participants are mostly from the fields of cultural studies and media studies as well as from the broader media arts and activist community. Dear Fibreculture, A point that I should make is that the first Humanities Computing archiving project was in…
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Peter Conrad Boyer Lectures
Radio National – Boyer Lectures Peter Conrad is doing this year’s Boyer Lectures on Radio National. The 40 year old lecture series is a commentary by prominant Australians. Conrad is a Professor of Literature at Oxford at was born in Tasmania (he was a Rhodes Scholar like Richard Flanagan). His book ‘Down Home’is about returning…
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Connecting the Dots
Connecting the dots By Mark Frauenfelder October 19, 2004 Next Tim Berners-Lee…worries that poorly conceived changes to the web’s organisation and governance could compromise its functionality and “universality”. Photo: AP Creating the World Wide Web didn’t make Tim Berners-Lee instantly rich or famous. That’s partly because the web sprang from relatively humble technologies. Berners-Lee’s invention…
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Why Make an Electronic Thesis in the Humanities?
Synopis In comparison to many other countries-most notably Canada, the United States,and the United Kingdom-the disciplines that form the humanities in Australia have made few visible inroads into advancing humanities knowledge on-line. There are no dedicated humanities computing centres in Australia, there are few individuals working in the field, and Australians are not well-represented on…