Humanities Links
Australian
e-Humanities Gateway
The Australian e-Humanities Gateway is designed as a reference
point for those involved in or seeking information about projects
and events concerned with the use of digital resources in humanities
disciplines in Australia.
Publishing
Guide: Editing
Here is a useful list of electronic publishing guides from a
Canberra Based consultancy.
Welcome
to the TEI Website
More news on the Text Encoding Initiative
CCH
Projects
The Centre for
Computing in the Humanities at Kings College London, Project
and Organisations.
CATH
Research Projects
Here are the projects that the Centre for Advanced Technology
in the Humanities are working on.
Phil
Agre's Home Page
There are some useful articles here from Phil Agre from UC Berkeley
who does human-centred Internet research.
a.(o).i.r
home
Association of Internet Researchers.
(Snip)
The Association of Internet Researchers is an academic association
dedicated to the advancement of the cross-disciplinary field
of Internet studies. It is a resource and support network promoting
critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional
disciplines and existing across academic borders. The association
is international in scope. (Snip)
W.
McCarty, Newcastle symposium
A research topography for Humanities Computing.
Knowledge
Representation in Humanities Computing
Here is a Paper by John Unsworth, the Director of IATH in Virginia
on Humanities Computing.
eheritage
entry page
Here is a project from Tasmania. It relates to the preservation
of and advancement of historical knowledge in electronic form
in communities within the State of Tasmania.
Association
for Computers and the Humanities
(snip) The Association for Computers and the Humanities is an
international professional organisation. Since its establishment,
it has been the major professional society for people working
in computer-aided research in literature and language studies,
history, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines, and especially
research involving the manipulation and analysis of textual
materials. (snip)
Centre
for Literary and Linguistic Computing (CLLC)
One of the few centres in Australia that concerns itself with
Humanities Computing. This centre has a focus upon literary
and linguistic computing, perhaps the major focus of the Humanities Computing field.
Humanities
computing: institutional models
Here is some excellent research by Willard McCarty and Matt
Kirchenbaum that provides an overview of many of the institutional
models for humanities research.
Journal
for MultiMedia History - Volume 3, 2000 Contents Page
The (Snip) Department
of History at the State University of New York at Albany presents
The Journal for MultiMedia History, the first peer-reviewed
electronic journal that presents, evaluates, and disseminates
multimedia scholarship. The journal also provides in-depth reviews,
including audio and visual clips and links, of multimedia resources
such as CD-ROMs, videos, and Web sites.(Snip)
Encyclopaedia
of Melbourne
One of the most ambitious history projects in Melbourne, this
project's aim is to build an historical encyclopaedia of the
city.
The
human elements :: weather, climate and culture in Australia
Here is site from Tim Sherratt of Melbourne. It uses an interesting
application of a portal software system called post-nuke.
Nurturing
Our Digital Memory: Digital Archiving and Preservation at the
National Library of Australia
Here is a paper from Dr Hilary Berthon of the National Library
of Australia that is about the libraries' digital preservation
initiatives.
Oral
History Online
Here is yet another wonderful contribution to on-line history
from George Mason University in the US. This is a useful critical
guide on how to use oral history on-line.
Guardian
Unlimited | Special reports | People's history
An Interesting article from Simon Schama on digital archives
Digitisation
Here is a very useful site from Canada that is about the Creation
and Maintenance of Digital Content.
DICTIONARY
OF NEW ZEALAND BIOGRAPHY
Here is an innovative site from New Zealand.The site contains
over 3000 biographies of important figures in NZ history.
InterMedia
UiB: Prosjekter
Intermedia at the University of Bergen is Involved in many aspects
of Humanities computing and broader new media research.
W.
McCarty, "What is Humanities Computing?"
Here is a paper that seeks to define Humanities Computing form
one of the leaders in the field, Willard McCarty of King's College
London.
Bibliography
of Humanities Computing
This Bibliography is produced by Willard McCarty of King's College
London.
(snip) This bibliography provides a selective list of notable
and essential publications in Humanities Computing organised
chiefly according to interdisciplinary methods and tools rather
than by discipline. It is designed for the beginner rather than
the specialist. (Snip)
Computers
and the Humanities
This is the official Journal of the Association for Computers
and the Humanities.
American
Social History Project -- Home Page
(snip) The American Social History Project/ Centre for Media
and Learning aims to revitalise interest in history by challenging
the traditional ways that people learn about the past. (Snip)
Maryland
Institute for Technology in the Humanities: MITH
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities appears
to be modelled on The Institute of Advanced Technology in the
Humanities at the University of Virginia. There are some projects
that are worth checking out here.
(Snip) MITH is a collaborative community of scholars, an interdisciplinary
institute and an electronic space dedicated to exploring the
use of new technologies in university research, teaching, and
community outreach (snip)
The
Pasts and Futures of Digital History: Edward L. Ayers
Here is an interesting introduction and reflection upon digital
history by Ed Ayres of the Virginian Centre for Digital History
at the University of Virginia. Ed is one of the founders of
the well-known Valley of the Shadow project.
Welcome
to Barani
This site tells the story of the indigenous history of Sydney.
In terms of matching culturally sensitive historiography and
good design it is one of the better sites I have come across,
although the meta data is a little inadequate.
eNarrative.org:
Hypertext, Education, Space
ENarrative is a conference series for the who's who in the hypertext
world. The fact that Simon Schama and Ed Ayres was at the conference
in 2002 is indicative of just how much hypertext scholarship
has grown in recent years.
Guardian
Unlimited | Special reports | People's history
Here is a paper by Simon Schama, certainly one of the more innovative
and well known American Historians. Schama is arguing that digital
archives have assisted in the democratisation of historical
knowledge.
Writing
hypertext
Here is a paper from the History Department at the University
of Bergen. (Snip) Why should history students learn how to write
hypertext on the World Wide Web (WWW) in a history curriculum?
In Norway it has been a common belief that the hard sciences
should be responsible for both developing and teaching new technology.
Social sciences were allowed to study the impact of new technology
on social life and Historians were allowed to study technology
when it was out of use. (Snip)
I find this utilitarian critique of new media refreshing, especially
from Melbourne where technological discourse is dominated by
one section of the academy.
Hypertext
Structure as the Event of Connection: Miles: JoDI
Here is a paper by Adrian Miles of RMIT University in Melbourne
on hypertext theory and practice. Its hypothesis is that 'simple'.
(Snip) While it is clear that context is fundamental to link
interpretation, and that context is largely reader (i.e. pragmatically)
determined, in no manner is the significance of the link exhausted
by the particular context in which it occurs. (Snip).
I would be a challenge to see this paper as an actual hypertext.
Archaeological
Computing Laboratory
This Archaeology Computing Centre at the University of Sydney
is a beacon for Humanities Computing in the region. The Centre
is involved in software development, GIS, database issues, and
the wonderful TimeMap. This centre is also one of the driving
forces behind ECAI (Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative)
The
WWW-VL History Index
This site is the list of list when it comes to finding history
on-line.
The
Victorian Web: An Overview
(snip) This site
is excellent for all aspects of nineteenth century English history,
created by George P. Landow of Brown University. Intended to
provide resources for teachers and students of Victorian literature,
it is also of interest to Historians. (Snip)
The
University of Sydney - SETIS - Scholarly Electronic Text and
Image Service - Related Sites
The University of Sydney is pretty much the leader in Humanities Computing in Australia. The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image
Service (SETIS) is one of the countries few electronic text
centres.
Web
Academic Resource Publisher (WARP)
(quote) The Web Academic Resource Publisher is a database tool
developed by the Australian Science and Technology Heritage
Centre, to enable the scholarly web publication of reference
texts. Promoting more than just online reproduction of texts,
the WARP facilitates the creation of a knowledge space which
becomes a research tool from which new connections, insights
and ideas can be discovered and explored. (Quote)
AlternaTime:
Historical TimeLines on the Web
Here you will find a interesting list of historical timelines
The
Internet Archive
Here you will find an interesting project. It is the Internet
Archive, a site that claims to house much of the digital heritage
of the Internet. It is unfortunately US-Centric in that peculiar
US style of not even realising it.
The
Electronic Journal of Australia and New Zealand History
This is presently the only on-line history journal in Australia.
Founded in 1996, it is a peer reviewed journal that has had
mixed success.
The
Association for History and Computing Journal
The Association for History and computing is perhaps the most
influential body on the scene. Here you will find the on-line
version of their journal that has a number of refereed articles,
reviews, and assistance in using electronic resources in teaching
and research.
Pandora
Project: National Library of Australia and Partners
The main goal of this project is to preserve and provide access
to some of Australia's most important on-line resources. This
is of course the function of a library, but I am not sure what
selection criteria is used. Selection must be difficult considering
that most on-line works are self-published, and some times not
in the public's interest.
Australian
Libraries Gateway: Digitisation Projects
Here you will find an extensive list of digitisation projects
being undertaken in Australia
electronic
theses and dissertations in the humanities
This is a directory by Matt Kirschenbaum, formerly of the University
of Virginia, but now at the University of Kentucky. He lists
many of the first postgraduate projects and dissertations undertaken
in the humanities up until 1999. Sadly, the site is now closed,
but well worth a visit (if you have nothing else to do).
Charles
Booth Online Archive
Produced by the London School of Economics, the Charles Booth
Online Archive is a archive of maps and other resources into
Booth's famous survey into London Poverty. The maps can even
be compared and contrasted with modern maps of London.
The
Whole World Was Watching
This oral history project is of a well researched scholarly
standard and is a collaboration between the South Kingstone
High School in and Brown University's Scholarly Technology Group
(USA).
Talking
History
This wonderful resource is well worth a visit:
(quote) Talking History, based at the University at Albany,
State University of New York, is a production, distribution,
and instructional centre for all forms of "aural" history. Our
mission is to provide teachers, students, researchers and the
general public with as broad and outstanding a collection of
audio documentaries, speeches, debates, oral histories, conference
sessions, commentaries, archival audio sources, and other aural
history resources as is available anywhere. (Quote)
Humanities
Computing Unit (HCU) home page
Perhaps one of the largest Humanities Computing centres anywhere,
this centre at Oxford has a focus upon maintaining and creating
access to humanities collections as well as providing tools
for their analysis.
MyICAAP
Pages
(quote) The International Consortium for the Advancement of
Academic Publication is a research and development organisation
devoted to the advancement of electronic scholarly communication.
(Quote)
From
Lunchroom to Boardroom Project - Oral History Search
This project is built on a simple access database and indexing
software developed by Distributed Systems Technology Centre
(DSTC) in Brisbane, Australia.
ZKM
| Center for Art and Media
ZKM in Germany is one of the leading new media arts centre's
of it type.
Centenary
of Federation - History
This is the official government site of the Centenary of Federation
celebrated in Australia in 2001. There is some informative information
here, but it is not a very innovative use of the technology.
An
Atlas of Cyberspaces- Historical Maps
These historical 'maps' of the growth of the Internet come from
the Cybergeography project.
Pandora
Archive : The REAL Jeff Kennett site
The Pandora Project's aim is to preserve some of our Internet
culture. Check out how the project has so kindly preserved examples
of the democratic use of the medium during the 1999 Victorian
state election in Australia. Lets hope that in the future, that
the medium can be used in as equally productive ways.
Federation
and Meteorology, Home
This well-researched site was developed by Australian Science
and Technology Heritage Centre at the University of Melbourne.
It mostly uses text and text based evidence, perhaps not always
the most innovative use of the technology, but certainly a great
resource. It attempts to arrange the work within an analytical
context.
(Quote) The site takes as its starting point some of the parallels
between the development of federation and the organisation of
meteorology (as described in Home and Livingston's article on
the site), but covers a wide range of topics from Clement Wragge's
1902 rainmaking attempts to the discovery of El Nino. The full
text of over 20 articles is included. (Quote)
The
University of Melbourne - Researching History
This is a useful research tool for students of history. It outline
the basics of the historical craft.
Introduction
to the Virtual Society? Programme
The Virtual Society
programme at Oxford University is a social science research
centre that examines the social impact of new technologies such
as the Internet.
NGSW
Project Information Site
This archive in the US is an expansive, fully searchable, online
database of 20th Century aural resources, educational and research
tools.
http://chnm.gmu.edu/us/www.taf
As with milkbar.com.au, George Mason Uni have an annotated list
of web resources. (Quote) This feature is our annotated guide
to the most useful websites for teaching U.S. history and social
studies. We have carefully selected and screened each website
for quality and provide a paragraph annotation that summarise
the site's content, notes its strengths and weaknesses, and
emphasises its utility for teachers. (Quote)
History
Matters: The U.S. Survey on the Web
George Mason University in Washington (like the University of
Virginia) has is whole centre dedicated to history and new media.
One of the founders of this centre is Roy Rosenzweig who created
one of the first history CD ROM's (1994) called Who Built America.
This site has a lot of resources on how to do history. Well
worth a visit.
The
University of Sydney - SETIS - Scholarly Electronic Text and
Image Service - Digitisation Projects.
This centre was originally founded with the assistance of David
Seaman from the University of Virginia's E*Text centre.
(Quote) The Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS)
at the University of Sydney Library provides access to a large
number of networked and in-house full text databases, primarily
but not exclusively, source texts within the humanities. In
addition to these literary, philosophical and religious texts
the service is engaged in a number of text and image creation
projects. (End quote)
Australian
Periodical Publications 1840-1845 - Australian Cooperative Digitisation
Project
One of the most ambitious history projects in Australia the
project's aim is to to make available a digital library of all
Australian periodical journals that began publication in the
important period between 1840-1845.
Women
Writers Project
This project based at Brown University in the US has a goal
is to bring pre-Victorian women's texts out of the archive and
make them accessible to a broader audience.
H-Net,
Humanities & Social Sciences Online
H-Net maintains probably the largest community of academic discussion
lists in the world as well as numerous history and new media
initiatives.
The
Electronic Journal of Australian and New Zealand History
Yet another innovation of Paul Turnbull of ANU, this journal
is one of the few on-line journal's in Australia dedicated to
History making.
Pandora
Archive - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources
of Australia
Maintained by the National Library of Australia, the Pandora
Project has developed policy guidelines and procedures for the
preservation and provision of access to Australian online digital
publications.
Australian
History on the Internet
An extensive bibliographical resource of historical documents,
history organisations and journals on-line.
Project
Endeavour - temp home
The Endeavour Project produced by Paul Turnbull and Chris Blackall
of ANU in Canberra is an attempt to place the diaries of James
Cook, Banks and Hargraves on-line. The diaries relate to the
first pacific Voyage of cook (1768-1771) and utilise innovative
and best-practice Humanities Computing standards. These standards
relate to the creation of a publishing engine and mark-up.
The
Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil
War
Produced by Will Thomas and Ed Ayres of The University of Virginia,
the Valley of the Shadow Project is one of the first and most
well known history sites on the web. "(Quote) The Valley of
the Shadow Project takes two communities, one Northern and one
Southern, through the experience of the American Civil War.
The project is a hypermedia archive of thousands of sources
for the period before, during, and after the Civil War for Augusta
County, Virginia, and Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Those sources
include newspapers, letters, diaries, photographs, maps, church
records, population census, agricultural census, and military
records. (End quote)
Virginia
Centre for Digital History--University of Virginia
This centre at the University of Virginia in the US is one of
the universities many innovative digital scholarship initiatives.
This centre produced the well known Valley of the Shadow Project,
one of the first serious attempts at web-based history, as well
as Virtual Jamestown. Virtual Jamestown contains many of the
important documents of the first British settlement in the US.
Australia
Street - INTRODUCTION
The Australia Street Archive is a snapshot taken in 1994-5 of
a small number of Australian homes and the people who have made
them. It is a joint project of UTS and the Australian Museum.
From
Lunchroom to Boardroom Project - Oral History Search
This
is a great project produced within a library environment. It
is built on an Access database that can search the oral-history
transcripts and start the MP3 recording at various points.
