David Puttnam on Ireland - Digitality and Research infrastructures

Interesting piece here on David Puttnam's vision for Ireland - his role as Digital Adviser to Gordon Brown has made clear his vision for innovative research communities -

What is DH and why is it relevant for PhDs

This is Melissa Terras' blogpost of her proposed talk on Big Tent Digital Humanities (now given) at 'Interface 2011' at UCL - it cuts through a lot of posturing to the core what key terms like 'humanities' and 'scholarship' are and is well worth a read - and yes - it is an endorsement of continuing professional development, the TEI and XML amongst other topics

Innovation - Intermediality and Bjork

Here's a link to some creative work by Bjork - each song on the new album has its own app, each one by a rival developer.

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.