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Workshop: Pragmatic Mapping for the Humanities, 15 - 16 April, Univ. of Sydney
If you want to get a good introduction to understanding spatial data and learning how to create maps quickly and easily, this workshop is for you.
The workshop will cover free and low-cost sources of map data (including digitising and geo-referencing printed maps), methods for collecting and analysing location data, and simple methods for creating printed maps and interactive maps on the web. It is an opportunity to develop a new set of skills and should interest anyone who wishes to use geographic location to interpret data or present information through maps - researchers and teachers, museum curators and exhibition designers, librarians and archivists, web developers and graphic designers etc. Examples will be drawn from a wide range - anthropology, archaeology, art history, digital encyclopaedias, history, linguistics, news media, religious studies, research networks, theatre, urban and settlement studies etc. The workshop is aimed at Humanities scholars, graduate students and professionals who need an introduction to the collection and use of location data and the creation of maps.
For those with data or an existing project, the workshop is followed by an optional one day data clinic where we will assist you to get your data ready for delivery.
Sydney: University of Sydney: Madsen Building Room 302
Workshop dates: 2 day workshop Wed 15 - Thu 16 April 2009
Workshop costs: A$400 full registration or A$200 concession* rates
Clinic date: 1 day data clinic Fri 17 April 2009
Clinic costs: A$200 full registration or A$150 concession* rates
*Concession = full time students and members of the Faculty of Arts.
Out of Sydney: Australia or New Zealand: Organised Site
For the workshop and clinic and presenter to travel the following is required: a workshop organiser/organisation; 10 attendees; a training space with adequate computers and broadband Internet connection; and travel and accommodation costs are paid by the workshop organiser. Workshop and clinic prices in Australian dollars stand.
This workshop is organised by the Digital Innovation Unit for the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney. More information is available in the workshop brochure and registration form.
Please contact Ingrid Mason (email: ingrid@acl.arts.usyd.edu.au or telephone: 02 9351 3142) for further information.
Records of our past events in the Events archive.
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Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities
Steven Hayes (ACL) and Ingrid Mason (DIU) blogged in a round-the-world recording of day in the life of scholars and professionals working in digital humanities. The Day in the Life of the Digital Humanities was organised by colleagues at TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) at the University of Alberta (Canada) using the blogging application Wordpress.
in the spotlight
In the last several weeks, PARADISEC has won a prestigious research prize, two ARC grants and featured in an important government document!
eResearch Prize VeRSI
The Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) eResearch Prize (HASS category) for 2008 goes to PARADISEC, a consortium of four universities: the Universities of Sydney, Melbourne, New England and the Australian National University. In the words of the judges: 'PARADISEC is an outstanding application of ICT tools in the humanities and social sciences domain that harnesses the work of scholars to store and preserve endangered language and music materials from the Asia-Pacific region and creates an online resource to make these available'.
ARC grants
Researchers in PARADISEC obtained a Linkage and a Discovery grant.
Sustainable futures for music cultures: Toward an ecology of musical diversity received a Linkage grant.
Investigators: Prof Dr H Schippers; Dr P Dunbar-Hall; Prof PR Hayward; A/ Prof LM Barwick; Prof K Howard; Prof P Campbell; Prof J Drummond; Dr H Lundstrom; Dr RA Letts
Administering Organisations: International Music Council, Music Council of Australia, Lund University
Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s): Griffith University
Nick Thieberger, Project Manager in PARADISEC, obtained a Discovery Grant for the project Doing great things with small languages: Safeguarding Indigenous language material of Australia's region by clever use of new technology.
Investigators: Dr NA Thieberger; Dr R Nordlinger
Administering Organisation: The University of Melbourne
PARADISEC in the Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Culture
In the recent government document, Strategic Roadmap for Australian Research Culture, PARADISEC is used as a case study and described as a project with immense potential (See p. 42 of the document. )
News from the Archaeological Computing Laboratory
ABC Earth developed in cooperation with the DIU
“The ABC Earth content layer (to be viewed using the Google Earth 4.3 application) is a trial that consists of video, images and content developed by the ABC. The layer includes national news and video news updated every 5 minutes, stories from 50 Years of national and international news, Foreign Correspondent as well as Local Radio” ( http://www.abc.net.au/apps/earth/). The Archaeological Computing Laboratory, a partner in the DIU, has worked with ABC on the project development.
TimeMap on ASK-OSS website
TimeMap, developed by the Archaeological Computing Laboratory, is featured as this-month's case study by Australian Service for Knowledge of Open Source Software ( http://ask-oss.mq.edu.au), a DEST-funded initiative. "ASK-OSS provides a national focal point for advice, management, governance, storage and dissemination of Open Source Software (OSS) for research and higher education. ASK-OSS has also featured iSphere, another online tool developed by, among others, the Archaeological Computing Laboratory.
