Category: web2.0
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State of the Blogosphere
Here is the annual Technorati State of the Blogosphere (2008) report: Welcome to Technorati’s State of the Blogosphere 2008 report, which will be released in five consecutive daily segments. Since 2004, our annual study has unearthed and analyzed the trends and themes of blogging, but for the 2008 study, we resolved to go beyond the…
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EngageMedia
EngageMedia is a video sharing site about social justice and environmental issues in the Asia Pacific, located in Melbourne in Australia, just a few doors up from my old house in Napier Street, Fitzroy. They also distribute their own developed plug-ins. This is a sophisticated crew that know their social software.! EngageMedia uses the power…
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‘Tools for Collaborative Scholarly Editing over the Web’
University of Birmingham,24-25 September, 2009. This workshop will review and address the making of tools for collaborative scholarly editing over the web. The workshop leaders joins partners in the COST-ESF Interedition project (http://www.interedition.eu), which is focussing – as is the JISC-funded Virtual Manuscript Room project — on Europe-wide creation of infrastructure and tools for collaborative…
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Probing questions in the Digital Humanities?
The ‘Digital Humanities’ is a problematic field partly because is traverses the treacherous chasm between the academic and non-academic. Here is a polemic I wrote on Arts-humanities.net on a forum for the DRHA Conference that starts in Belfast today (and if you ask me nicely, I will give examples). <soapbox> The essence of the humanities…
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NINES Project: Ninteenth Century Scholarship Online (Peer Review system)
The Peer review system for the NINES project may be of interest to punters. Digital humanities projects have long lacked a framework for peer review and thus have often had difficulty establishing their credibility as true scholarship. NINES exists in part to address this situation by instituting a robust system of review by some of…
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Humanities text-mining in the Digital Library (MONK)
Abstract MONK (Metadata Offer New Knowledge) is a digital environment designed to help humanities scholars discover and analyze patterns in the texts they study. It supports both micro analyses of the verbal texture of an individual text and macro analyses that let you locate texts in the context of a large document space consisting of…