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DIGITAL HUMANITIES AUSTRALASIA 2014: Expanding Horizons

The Australian Association for Digital Humanities will hold its 2nd conference at the University of Western Australia, 18-21 March 2014. The conference webiste is at http://dha2014.org/ The deadline for submissions is 14 September 2013.

Crunching Literary Numbers - Google's Ngram database

An interesting example of using Google's Ngram database: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/opinion/sunday/crunching-literary-numbers.html?_r=1&

Cuckoo's Calling - cracking the authorship mystery

The revelation of JK Rowling as the author of mystery novel "The Cuckoo's Calling" has been widely reported. Perhaps the more interesting story is that of the software used by Patrick Juola to determine Rowling's authorship. Patrick Juola (widely named incorrectly as Patrick Juoma) is an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Duquesne University. More is at http://www.bizjournals.com/pittsburgh/blog/innovation/2013/07/how-did-duquesne-professor-patrick.html?page=all

book:logic and AustESE Workshop

The book:logic series of symposia was established in 2010 to bring together postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, independent researchers and academics whose work involves aspects of textual studies: the scholarly editing of literary works and historical documents, the study of versions of works, editorial theory, physical bibliography, codicology and history of the book.

The 2013 Symposium will meet at UQ on Friday 4 October. For more information and to register, please visit the Symposium blog: http://booklogic2013.wordpress.com/

In conjunction with the book:logic symposium, the AustESE Project (http://austese.net/) is running a workshop on electronic scholarly editing on Thursday 3 October. Information and registration details will be posted on the book:logic blog.

Digital humanities pedagogy

Digital humanities pedagogy edited by Brett Hirsch asks us to start thinking critically not only about what is taught under the banner of "digital humanities" and how it is taught, but also to consider the broader institutional implications and political consequences, of doing so. The book is divided into sections: practices, principles and politics. Essays on practice include Willard McCarty's on the first PhD program in digital humanities, established in 2005 at the then Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London; "Teaching digital skills in an archives and public history curriculum" by Peter Wosh and others; and Olin Bjork's essay on "Digital humanities and the first-year writing course". Essays on principles cover what is "more important than the use of machines" in the digital humanities - that is, "new ways of thinking." The final section of the book on politics proposes a political vision for digital humanities - for digital humanities classrooms to create a more inclusive, diverse environment.

Roslyn Follett, Director, Research Information Service

New UQ Digital Humanities Blog

Dear members of the UQ Digital Humanities community,

The Library has established this Digital Humanities Blog to start a conversation about digital literacies and engagement with digital humanities pedagogy at UQ. It is open to all so please send us your views. We will start posting soon some of our ideas about establishing a digital information literacy program as well as information about parts of the Library's collection that we are digitising.

Bob Gerrity, University Librarian