Monthly Archives: November 2010

Reimagining the Archive

Blog that has pretty good documentation and collection of material that came out of the Reimagining the Archive Symposium held recently at UCLA. Continue reading

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eResearch Australasia conference

Jane and I have just presented a preliminary report about this project at the eresearch australasia conference on the Gold Coast. You can find our paper here. Amid the clamour and noise of the ‘petascale’ and ‘exascale’ questions of supercomputing … Continue reading

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PhD scholarship

Your Expression of Interest (two pages) should include the following information: Why you are interested in the position Academic Qualifications (include years of enrolment, date completed or expected to complete, name of institution, Hons and/or Masters level of award if applicable) Professional Experience – provide details (including duration) of any professional experience, previous and current, relevant to your application. You can also include relevant professional development such as workshops and conferences Publication Details and/or Folio – if you have authored, exhibited or produced works relevant to your application please provide full details of the publication or exhibition including level of authorship, extent of involvement and whether the work was refereed, assessed or judged. Continue reading

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Some Interesting Things (November 4th – November 6th)

These are my links for November 4th through November 6th: Social Media Design Pattern Library – paper.li – read Twitter as a daily newspaper – David Barrie: \’Open source\’ place-making –

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Video Tests

Compression software estimates that 1 hour of video = 880MB Clip Two Video: H.264, 24 frames per second, automatic (natural) keyframes, data rate restricted to 1000 kbits/sec and multipass encoding enabled. 720 x 405 pixels (16:9) Audio: MPEG4 Low Delay AAC, 48.00 kHz. … Compression software estimates that 1 hour of video = 439MB Clip Three Video: H.264, 24 frames per second, automatic (natural) keyframes, data rate restricted to 800 kbits/sec and multipass encoding enabled. 360 x 202 pixels (16:9) Audio: MPEG4 Low Delay AAC, 48.000 kHz. Continue reading

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DAAO

The Dictionary of Australian Artists online is worth following, as it develops – being redesigned by Gillian Fuller. I like the ‘Random Biography’ and ‘On this day’ searches on the front page. I think these simple ideas for engagement are … Continue reading

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Some Interesting Things (October 25th – November 4th)

These are my links for October 25th through November 4th: Clay Shirky\’s Internet Writings – Content Providers Guide – Content Providers guide from the Australian National Data Service. About storing and making research data available. http://club.fom.ru/books/reckwitz.pdf – burnmap » mapping … Continue reading

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Australian National Data Service

Federal body that has funding and is developing resources about making research data accessible and open. … The Australian National Data Service has an excellent guide for content providers that is intended to be introductory and discusses such things as metadata and RIF-CS. Continue reading

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