ESF Humanities Spring- "Changing Publication Cultures in the Humanities".

I'm attending this European workshop on publication in the humanities - based on themes of engagement, impact, language and future. There are 19 grantees and many languages with a broad range of views - tweeting at #humspring11.

There are interesting debates on everything from bibliometrics, to open access with the scholar Gudrun Gersmann giving a masterclass on digital publishing this morning. She gave excellent examples such as OAPEN, Francia(at Perspectivia), and recensio.net

Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative

Just published - here's the link:

The interface as narrative device

This is a visual treat of a TED talk on data, visualisation, meaning with humanity and creativity at the centre of it ...

Blogging the tsunami

This is a link to a Guardian article, and a link to a translation from Japanese to English of a blog created by a disaster nurse. The translator remains anonymous. The writer has had an overwhelming and immediate online response to her blogs, and has resisted calls for them to be published in book form preferring to let people come to the writing online.

Policy Document on the Open Access Agenda - Arcadia.org.uk

This is a brilliant, comprehensive document detailing the scholarly and societal need for an urgent implementation of the open access agenda. Click here for the link to the document.

Knowledge shared online

After the stimulating discussion and debate at last Friday's Honest to Blog, organised by Pue's Occurrences, and having had many discussions about the relative merits of social media, I took the plunge in to the twitterverse tonight.

And I found a lively, stimulating online debate amongst fellow scholars about what is happening at Glasgow at present and also a host of useful links and online discussions useful to my own interests. Paperless Archaeology is one at the Digital Classicist list.

I should have known that epigraphers would be ahead of the crowd with new media.

Honest to Blog - A Symposium on Web Legitimacy

The second symposium - under the auspices of Pue's Occurrences - is being held in TCD this Friday 4th March. It promises to be a wide ranging discussion of the Irish blogosphere.