Monthly Archives: March 2011

Opening Session on Friday (25/03/2011)

Posted on March 29, 2011 by Craig Bellamy

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Blog posts and reports

Posted on March 29, 2011 by asa letourneau

ThatCamp Melbourne has come to a close but the knowledge shared and the great work produced shouldn’t stay ‘indoors’. In the spirit of linked open data please post your learnings, ruminations, reports, session links here so we can build on the ThatCamp … Continue reading →

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Defining Collections in a Digital Research Archive.

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Deb Verhoeven

Rachel Wilson and I would like to take up a discussion around what happens to our ideas about off-line collections when they take life online. This is something that we are nutting out as part of our work on The … Continue reading →

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Technology and the Humanities – A Theoretical and Practical Meta-Discussion

Posted on March 24, 2011 by Joshua Comyn

It is uncontroversial to claim that the non-human is efficacious, capable of effecting change. Not merely the non-human, but the non-living is efficacious in this way. Indeed, we count among its effects. Neither is it controversial that we are changed … Continue reading →

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Merging space and time – in GoogleEarth and ‘TemporalEarth’

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Matthew Coller

History and archaeology are intimately connected with questions of what happened “where” and “when”, but traditional paper-based representations (eg. maps and timelines) are quite restrictive in what they can represent. I’m interested in sharing skills and ideas with others on … Continue reading →

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Load my laptop

Posted on March 23, 2011 by Tim Sherratt

I mentioned in my Bootcamp session outline that if people wanted to play along it would be good to have a web server stack installed. This sounds much scarier than it is is, and it really gives you the opportunity … Continue reading →

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Can I propose a second session?

Posted on March 21, 2011 by Steven Hayes

I propose we design a digital humanities unit from scratch. We should profile the staff and resources and the funding methods. We might even get cute and come up with a few fictional project descriptions that tell the story of … Continue reading →

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Session – Political Issues Analysis System using iFish

Posted on March 9, 2011 by Mitchell Harrop

This session will be used to explore the evolving applications of online political communication strategies and tools in order to understand the ‘deliberative’ processes of users. The session will be related to an ongoing project that deals with ‘political issues’ … Continue reading →

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Proposal to develop PhD Coursework in Digital Methods

Posted on March 7, 2011 by Michael Arnold

I understand that in the medium-term future all students undertaking a PhD through the Arts Faculty will be required to complete coursework in addition to their thesis. Calls have been made for suggestions for suitable courses. My proposed session aims … Continue reading →

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Fun with Trove Newspapers

Posted on March 5, 2011 by Tim Sherratt

The NLA’s Trove Newspapers database is a magnificent resource for digital history, but it’s currently not very easy to do detailed analysis of content. I’ve been working on a few tools which make this easier and I’d be interested in … Continue reading →

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Socializing Scholarly data- reputation management and other issues for affectual design

Posted on March 4, 2011 by Gillian Fuller

Our project, Design and Art of Australia Online http://blogs.unsw.edu.au/daao/ is opening up contributions to the database to larger project community.  Among other things we will developing communities around different spheres of scholarly research through  social media style tools, conventions and … Continue reading →

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ADB Mining

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Steven Hayes

I’d like to propose a session that aims to produce (or failing that, define) a tool that will take in an Australian historical text and locate within this text all the mentions of people named in the Australia Dictionary of … Continue reading →

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Mapping concepts in time and space

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Leisa Gibbons

I am interested in how to develop a tool that would be able to map the major concepts of a discipline and then to be able to link these concepts across disciplines.  The trick is to be able to map … Continue reading →

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Session proposal – time aligned text and media

Posted on March 1, 2011 by Nick Thieberger

Media provides the basis for much Humanities research. In Linguistics, field recordings are transcribed and then used as the proof for linguistic analysis. Access to media and provision of online versions of media and transcripts has become much easier with … Continue reading →

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