Tag: web2.0
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DRHA 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice’
The DRHA conference is held annually at various academic venues throughout the UK. The conference theme this year is to promote discussion around new collaborative environments, collective knowledge and redefining disciplinary boundaries. The conference, hosted by Cambridge with its fantastic choice of conference venues will take place from Sunday14th September to Wednesday 17th September The…
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Obituary Pip Starr: Melbourne Activist
Pip Starr, a well-know Melbourne activist and film maker died in Melbourne today. I first met Pip around 1999 at the height of the anti-globalisation movement. Some of his documantaries can be found here: http://web.mac.com/pipstarr/starr.tv/starr.tv.html Also, here is an interview that I did with Pip some years ago about the effects of globalisation upon a…
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The Centre for the New Humanities
Here is a presentation to the Board of Governors at Rutgers University in the US about their proposal to build a centre for the ‘new humanities. The new humanities is imagined as a hypertextual and multimedia humanities.
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The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities
The Webometrics Ranking of World Universities (http://www.webometrics.info/ ) has been updated with data collected during January 2008. The service aims to rank Universities according to their global visibility in the web-enabled world. Included in the metrics is a new service ranking the most visible 200 repositories in the world: http://www.webometrics.info/top4000.asp. The Arts and Humanities Data…
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Australian Prime Minister Apoligises to Aboriginies
(An email sent to all staff from Glyn Davis the Vice Chancellor of my old university in Melbourne) Colleagues, Tomorrow, 13 February, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd will make a formal Apology to the Stolen Generations. The University is recognising this important national event with a University statement of apology to the Indigenous people of Australia.…
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Electronic Edition of Domesday Book: Translation, Databases and Scholarly Commentary, 1086
The text of Domesday Book is notoriously ambiguous, its array of social and economic statistics hitherto inaccessible, and the majority of individuals and many places unidentified. This electronic edition aims to make Domesday Book both more accessible and more intelligible by presenting its contents in a variety of forms: a translation, databases of names, places…