Author Archives: David

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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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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arts-humanities.net

arts-humanities.net – Another key resource for the digital humanities, with links to many projects searchable via ‘methods’ and ‘tools’. There are many connections with what we are doing, and it is well worth checking out in more detail. This, from … Continue reading

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Cloud culture

Cloud Culture, by Charles Leadbetter, is available for free download as a PDF. Here is a screenshot of a diagram from the book:

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First project Workshop

On September 17th we held our first Project Workshop for the Circus Oz Living Archive project team. We were hosted by Circus Oz at their Port Melbourne homebase, and had an exciting and constructive afternoon – a chance for all … Continue reading

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Digitisation workflows

Jane Mullett and I had a very good meeting recently with Robyn McGregor from Circus Oz, following other discussions I had with Trish Stokes and with Russell Fewster from the University of Sydney, who is working with us on an … Continue reading

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…’design for generosity’

Clay Shirky, in this Ted talk, introduces a number of ideas I found useful. He talks about ‘cognitive surplus’ as being the trillion hours of participatory value (leisure time) in the world that can now be tapped by new media … Continue reading

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on the transformation of archives…

Interesting quote, from an interview by Morgan Currie conducted on May 18th with Paul Keller of Kennisland: …with the aid of Creative Commons, large amounts of digital objects are being released by massive silos, such as Flickr, Youtube, and the … Continue reading

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CALL FOR EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST PhD Scholarship (Media and Communication)

CIRCUS VIDEO ARCHIVE MEETS WEB 2.0 – OPPORTUNITY TO JOIN AN EXCITING INTER-DISCIPLINARY TEAM THE PROJECT: The Circus Oz Living Archive: developing a model of online digital engagement for the performing arts The successful applicant will have demonstrated capacity in … Continue reading

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