Category: history
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CIA Intellegence Manual 1963
(Some light reading on the history of prisoner interrogation; this is a de-classified manual published by the American CIA in 1963 and made public in 1997. Don’t you just love the openness of democracy?) KUBARK Counterintelligence Interrogation July 1963 Contents Introduction Explanation of Purpose Explanation of Organization Definitions Legal and Policy Considerations The Interrogator…
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Digital Storytelling Seminar
This seminar on digital storytelling in St Kilda here in Melbourne on the 18th of August looks interesting. ACMI runs workshops on this stuff and early last year I helped make a documentary about the history of waterskiing on the Yarra river (which was sort of fun). And of course, there is milkbar.com.au ACMI held…
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The Semantic Web for Museums
Description Project Context: Mr Tom Worthington presented a week long workshop on the use of technology for museums of the Pacific islands region in July 2005. One of the recommendations made following the workshop was to investigate building an on-line repository of materials from across the Pacific. In second semester 2005, Kwok Chung, a computer…
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UNESCO: Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage
UNESCO has recognised that as an increasing amount of the World’s cultural output is digitised and placed on mediums such as the web, that there is also an increasing need to preserve this culture for future generations. This is from UNESCO’s Charter on the Preservation of the Digital Heritage: “The Charter on the Preservation of…
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Vannavar Bush ‘As we may think’ (1945)
In this famous article by Dr Vannavar Bush, published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1945, he outlines his vision for the 'Memex Machine', which is often seen as the intellectual precursor to hypertext and the world wide web. "The perfection of these specific instruments should be the first objective of our scientists as they emerge…