Digital Humanities 
JISC digital festival 2014
The Jisc Digital Festival 2014
to be held in Birmingham, 11 March to 12 March 2014 will be an opportunity to get together and discuss real solutions to improve teaching and learning and enhance the student and research experience.
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Developing students' digital literacy
Learning Literacies for a Digital Age was a research study aiming to find out what literacies learners require and what UK higher education institutions are doing to support them. The full report is on the JISC website:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/media/documents/projects/llidareportjune2009.pdf
A shorter version with a list of general recommendations on developing students' digital literacy has been prepared by the Caledonian Academy, Glasgow Caledonian University.
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Digital Humanities Series from the University of Michigan
The University of Michigan has recently launched a new series of books on Digital Humanities "to provide a forum for ground-breaking and benchmark work in Digital Humanities". More at http://www.digitalculture.org/books/book-series/digital-humanities-series/
The first 2 titles in this series can be accessed via the UQ Library catalogue:
Teaching History in the Digital Age http://library.uq.edu.au/record=b3268601
Hacking the Academy: New Approaches to Scholarship and Teaching from the Digital Humanities
http://library.uq.edu.au/record=b3292421
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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.
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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
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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&
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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.
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Digital Treasures Symposium, Canberra, Friday 21 June
The Donald Horne Institute Centre for Creative and Cultural Research presents the 2013
Our present is characterised by a data deluge that is transforming society and culture. The holdings of our cultural institutions are becoming digital treasures - vast collections of data that present new opportunities, and new challenges, in how we represent, interact with, and understand our shared heritage.
This symposium marks the launch of the Digital Treasures program, an initiative
of the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research at the University of Canberra.
Our aim is to address the challenges and opportunities of digital collections
through partnerships with cultural institutions and practice-led digital
research. Our key themes are:
representation - creating rich representations of digital collections
interaction - engaging audiences for digital collections
understanding culture - supporting new forms of cultural knowledge
Registration is free but essential for catering purposes!
Speakers
Tim Sherratt - Digital historian and Manager of Trove at the National Library of Australia
Marian Dörk and Tom Schofield - CultureLab, Newcastle University, UK
Zoe D'Arcy - Director, Digital and Online Access, National Archives of Australia
Paul Hagon - Senior Web Designer, National Library of Australia
Liz Holcombe - Web Manager, Australian War Memorial
Mitchell Whitelaw - Digital Treasures Project, CCCR, University of Canberra
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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
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