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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

http://www.uws.edu.au/newscentre/news_centre/more_news_stories/uws_appoints_australias_first_professor_in_digital_humanities

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researchers and academics whose work involves aspects of textual studies: the scholarly editing of literary works and historical documents, the study of versions of works, editorial theory, physical bibliography, codicology and history of the book.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.

The Donald Horne Institute Centre for Creative and Cultural Research presents the 2013

DIGITAL TREASURES SYMPOSIUM

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.

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.