Introduction
Survey and audit of current e-Humanities research in Australia and internationally
Opportunities for e-Humanities research in Australia
December 2003 workshop
Structure of the proposed Network
Report of the Print Cultures Network
Print Cultures Network: Annotated hyperlinks
Database
List of annotated hyperlinks
Participants in Special Research Initiative Projects
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Professor Margaret Harris (Convenor) is Professor in English Literature and Director of the Research Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Sydney. Her current research is focussed on Victorian fiction, especially George Eliot, and on the Australian novelist Christina Stead. She has a long-standing interest in e-humanities, having been the inaugural chair of the Advisory Committee for the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) of the University of Sydney Library. She collaborated with John Tranter and Dr Kate Lilley on a web-based edition of Tranter's first book, Parallax http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/tranter/ , and with Dr Judith Barbour on her edition of Mary Shelley's Life of William Godwin http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/godwin/index.html http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/english/staff_harris_m.shtml Dr Linda Barwick (Department of Music, University of Sydney) has worked for 14 years on projects involving indigenous Australians, specialising in Aboriginal song and ceremonies from a number of different areas, including Central Australia, Northern Australia, and the Kimberleys. She is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Music, University of Sydney, and also conducts freelance research for clients, who include Aboriginal organisations, Universities and publishing houses. One of Dr Barwick's main research interests is digital conservation. She is Director of the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC): http://www.paradisec.org.au/ http://www.zipworld.com.au/~lbarwick/ Associate Professor Steven Bird (Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Melbourne) is interested in formal and computational models for linguistic information, with application to human language technologies and to the description of the world's ~7,000 languages. Before coming to Melbourne University he did doctoral and post-doctoral research at the University of Edinburgh (1987-94). From 1995-97 he conducted linguistic fieldwork on the languages of western Cameroon, published a dictionary, and helped develop several new writing systems. From 1998-2002 he was associate director of the Linguistic Data Consortium at the University of Pennsylvania, where he led an R&D team working on open-source software for linguistic annotation. Dr Markus Buchhorn (Department of Computer Science, Australian National University) has a PhD in astrophysics. His post-PhD background is as a programmer, system administrator and technical manager for high performance computing and networking research groups. In 2002 he started as Head of the Internet Futures group at ANU http://www.if.anu.edu.au and also began as the Grangenet Grid Services Coordinator http://www.grangenet.net http://feit.anu.edu.au/personnel/staffDisplayNames.html? Mr Philip Chung (Executive Director, Australasian Legal Information Service, University of Technology, Sydney) is a graduate in Economics and Law from the University of Sydney, with a major in Computer Science. Mr Chung manages the staff and resources of AustLII (http://www.austlii.edu.au/) and jointly oversees the technical development of AustLII's projects and system administration. In addition to his responsibilities as AustLII's Executive Director, Philip manages the primary legal materials, and has developed all of the facilities to automate the receipt and processing of cases and other materials. Philip lectures in computerised legal research at UTS. He is experienced in large scale legal publishing on the Internet, computerised legal research, computer legal applications and automated text processing. http://www.law.uts.edu.au/staff/philip.html Professor Margaret Clunies Ross (Department of English, University of Sydney) has particular research interests in the area of old Norse-Icelandic studies. She currently heads a project which will produce a new edition of the known corpus of Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry, to be published electronically, as well as in book form: http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu.au/docs/papers/drrh2001.html http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/english/ Dr Creagh Cole (Library, University of Sydney) is the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) coordinator at Fisher Library, University of Sydney. SETIS provides access to a large number of networked and in-house full text databases, primarily but not exclusively, source texts within the humanities. In addition to these literary, philosophical and religious texts the service is engaged in a number of text and image creation projects. The networked texts are sgml-encoded texts converted on the fly to html for display. http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/index.html Mr Ross Coleman (Library, University of Sydney) is the Collection Management Librarian at Sydney University's Fisher Library. He has been involved in various digitisation projects, including the setting up and maintenance of the Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS). http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/index.html Professor Hugh Craig (English, and Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Newcastle) has research interests in English Renaissance literature, including Renaissance literary theory, and in literary statistics. He is the author of Sir John Harington (G K Hall, 1985), and has edited Ben Jonson: The Critical Heritage (Routledge, 1990). His current work is based on the statistics of very common words in English Renaissance Drama, especially in relation to authorial styles and wider shifts over time. The Centre for Literary and Linguistic Computing ( http://www.newcastle.edu.au/centre/cllc/ ) which he heads, was established to pursue the development and application of statistical and computing tools for the analysis of (literary) texts. http://www.newcastle.edu.au/school/lang-media/ Associate Professor Bharat Dave (Architecture, Building and Planning, University of Melbourne) has an international profile of research and teaching in design computing and 3D visualisation. He has taught at the Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh USA), Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (Zurich, Switzerland), and Australia. Additionally, he currently serves as Associate Dean (Research) in the faculty. http://www.arbld.unimelb.edu.au/research/ Professor Paul Eggert runs the Australian Scholarly Editions Centre at the University of New South Wales at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra where he is Professor of English. He prepared critical editions of The Boy in the Bush and Twilight in Italy in the Cambridge works of D.H. Lawrence and is general editor of the Academy Editions of Australian Literature, in which he co-edited The Recollections of Geoffry Hamlyn and is working on Robbery Under Arms . He has published widely in the area of editorial theory and has been engaged in recent years in the ARC funded Authenticated Electronic Editions project (for the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2004) and the Electronically Enabled Collaboration in Humanities Research project. http://idun.itsc.adfa.edu.au/ASEC/ Associate Professor Nicholas Evans (Department of Linguistics, University of Melbourne). Over the last decade Associate Professor Evans has been carrying out research on a number of languages of Northern Australia, particularly focussing on Kayardild and Mayali, for each of which he has prepared a grammar, dictionary and text collection. More generally, he is interested in morphology, language typology, the morphology-syntax interface, pragmatics, semantic change, Australian historical linguistics, Macassan-Australian linguistic contacts, and the linguistic prehistory of Australia. http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/contact/staff/evans.html Dr Maggie Exon is a Senior Lecturer in Information Studies at Curtin University. She is a professionally qualified records manager, archivist and librarian and interested in all aspects of information organisation and retrieval, especially in automated environments. She also still considers herself to be a historian, her doctoral degree being in the field of the history of the book. http://smi.curtin.edu.au/StaffDetails.cfm?EmpID=15 Professor Graham Greenleaf (Australasian Legal Information Institute, University of New South Wales) is co-founder and co-Director of the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII), one of the largest free access law sites on the web. AustLII also jointly created the British & Irish Legal Information Institute (PacLII). Most of Professor Greenleaf's research work is concerned with the inter-relationships between information technology and law. http://austlii.edu.au/~graham/ Mr Jason Grossman (History and Philosophy of Science, University of Sydney) specialises in the philosophy of contemporary scientific methodology, especially the philosophy of statistics. Jason has also held positions in computer support for the humanities (at the University of Cambridge) and health policy (at the University of Sydney, and in the NSW Health Department and NSW Cabinet Office). http://www.usyd.edu.au/hps/staff/Jason/main.html Dr Jane Hunter is a Distinguished Research Fellow at the Distributed Systems Technology (DSTC) Cooperative Research Centre, at the University of Queensland ( www.dstc.edu.au ). She is also Project Leader of DSTC's MAENAD (Multimedia Access for Enterprises across Networks And Domains) project. She is investigating data models, ontologies, metadata standards (Dublin Core, MPEG-7, MPEG-21), schemas (RDF, XML), software tools, web services and query languages to enable the indexing, archival, discovery, analysis, integration, management and preservation of large, complex mixed-media and data collections. The primary objective of this research is to develop interoperable tools and services to enable knowledge management, mining and capture within the educational, cultural and scientific domains. http://archive.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/jane-hunter.html Dr Ian Johnson 's (Archaeological Computing Laboratory, University of Sydney) principal interests lie in the integration of databases and spatial information through the use of Geographic Information Systems, their application to archaeological data, and the education of archaeologists to use appropriate computer tools. He has a particular interest in distributed databases and time-enabled GIS (the TimeMap project), field methods of data collection, and extensive fieldwork experience in Europe and Australia. http://acl.arts.usyd.edu.au/acl/people/management.html Professor Christian Matthiessen is in Linguistics at Macquarie University. His research interests include development of theoretical and computational models of systems capable of taking part in spoken dialogue; modelling of the ideation base, interaction base and text base of a text processing system; and exploration of the integration of text generation and speech synthesis technology. http://minerva.ling.mq.edu.au/xian/CM_Resume.html Professor Iain McCalman (Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University) is a cultural historian who specializes in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His cross-cultural writings traverse Britain and Australia, Britain and the West Indies, Britain, Ireland and Australia, and Britain and France. In March 2003 he was awarded an Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship. Professor McCalman's project will result in a book, video film and a digital (CD Rom/DVD) publication. He aims to explore the life and work of Philippe de Loutherbourg -- an eighteenth-century European artist, scientist, engineer and set-designer who pioneered revolutionary developments in the technology and culture of multimedia through the agency of 'spectacles.' These multi-sensory displays for entertainment and knowledge foreshadowed modern cinema and multimedia, and provide models for new ways of understanding and practicing history. http://www.anu.edu.au/hrc/about/staff/iainbio2.htm Ms Alison Moore (Centre for Language in Social Life, University of Macquarie) recently completed her PhD, and currently holds an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship. http://www.ling.mq.edu.au/clsl/ Dr Simon Musgrave (Department of Linguistics, Monash University) is interested in the syntax of languages of the Austronesian family, particularly Indonesian and Sasak; non-deriational formal models of syntax; syntactic typology; and computational tools for handling linguistic data, especially data management for linguistic field work and the archiving of linguistic data. www.arts.monash.edu.au/ling/musgrave.htm Dr Peter Otto is a Reader in Literature and Head of the Department of English at the University of Melbourne. He has been closely involved in the development of information technology and multimedia policy and initiatives in the Arts Faculty. He has co-edited two collections of articles on Romanticism and authored two books on William Blake - Constructive Vision and Visionary Deconstruction (1991; 2001, Oxford UP) and Blake's Critique of Transcendence (2000, Oxford UP). A microfilm collection of Gothic Texts (338 volumes), coedited with Alison Milbank and Marie Mulvey-Roberts, and an accompanying monograph, were published by Adam Matthew Publications in 2002-03. His most recent research project "Multiplying Worlds: Romanticism, Modernity and the emergence of Virtual Reality" maps the emergence of virtual reality in the Romantic period, in the interplays between new optical technologies, popular entertainment, Enlightenment and Romanticism. http://www.english.unimelb.edu.au/staff/ottop.html Professor Huw Price is ARC Federation Fellow and Challis Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sydney, where he heads the Centre for Time in the Department of Philosophy. He was formerly Professor of Logic and Metaphysics in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Past President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy. He is also a consulting editor for the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy , an associate editor of The Australasian Journal of Philosophy and on the editorial board of The Philosophical Quarterly . Dr Jane Simpson (Department of Linguistics, University of Sydney) is a descriptive linguist who works on Australian Indigenous languages and Australian English, and is interested in syntax, lexical semantics, lexicography, language maintenance, digital archives and ethnography. http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/linguistics/ Mr Nicholas Thieberger (Department of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne) is currently Project manager for PARADISEC, an ARC LIEF project run by a consortium of Sydney University, ANU and Melbourne University, which aims to establish an archive of digitised material on languages of the Pacific, PNG and Indonesia: http://www.paradisec.org.au/ Mr Thieberger is also a consultant on linguistics issues including Native Title and computer based linguistic tools. http://www.linguistics.unimelb.edu.au/contact/ Professor Paul Turnbull of James Cook University is Australia's first Professor of History in Digital Media. He also holds an Adjunct Professorship at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, Australian National University. He is internationally recognized for his work in the theory and practice of history in networked hypermedia, and was the founding President of H-Net: Humanities and Social Sciences Online. He has received various fellowships and awards and is a member of the scientific advisory boards of the MATRIX Centre for Humane Arts and Letters Online at Michigan State University, and the Austrian Academy's Digital Corpus Project. He recently completely a highly successful ARC SPIRT project with the National Library, aimed at creating an online resource focused on James Cook's momentous first Pacific Voyage (1768-1771). Dr Tarrin Wills (Department of English, University of Sydney) recently completed his PhD, entitled An edition of the first section of the Old Icelandic Third Grammatical Treatise . He is currently working as a Research Associate on the Skaldic Verse project. This project will publish, in both electronic and hard copy, a new edition of the known corpus of Norse-Icelandic skaldic poetry. |
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Associate Professor David Carter , Director, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland (Convenor) Mr John Arnold , Head of School of Political and Social Inquiry, Monash University Professor Bruce Bennett , School of Language, Literature and Communication, Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), University of New South Wales Ms Delys Bird , Senior Honorary Fellow, English, Communication and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia Associate Professor Patrick Buckridge , School of Arts, Media and Culture, Griffith University Ms Margy Burn , Assistant Director-General, Australian Collections and Reader Services, National Library of Australia Dr Toby Burrows , Principal Librarian, Scholars' Centre (Reader Services), University of Western Australia Mr Ross Coleman , Collections Coordinator, University Library, University of Sydney Associate Professor Denis Cryle , Faculty of Informatics and Communication, Central Queensland University Professor Robert Dixon , Professorial Fellow, University of Queensland Dr Tim Dolin , Research Fellow, Curtin University of Technology Professor Paul Eggert , School of Language, Literature and Communication, Australian Defence Force Academy (ADFA), University of New South Wales Dr Anne Galligan , Postdoctoral Researcher, Australian Studies Centre, University of Queensland Professor Denis Haskell , English, Communication and Cultural Studies, University of Western Australia Ms Kerry Kilner , Executive Manager, AustLit, University of Melbourne Dr Andrew McCann , Senior Lecturer, English with Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne Dr Lynette McCredden , Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University Dr Michael Meehan , Head of School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University Dr Simone Murray , Postdoctoral Fellow, The University of Queensland Professor Richard Nile , Director, Australian Research Institute, Curtin University of Technology Dr Wenche Ommundsen , Senior Lecturer, School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University Ms Janine Schmidt , University Librarian, University of Queensland Associate Professor Meg Tasker , Humanities, University of Ballarat Professor Elizabeth Webby , Professor of Australian Literature and Convenor of Australian Studies, University of Sydney Professor Gillian Whitlock , School of English, Media Studies and Art History, University of Queensland Professor Gus Worby , Head of Australian Studies Program, Flinders University of South Australia |
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Professor Andrew Christie , Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia, University of Melbourne (Convenor Dr Sandrine Balbo , Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne Associate Professor Joseph Davis, School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney Dr Mari Davis , Bibliometric and Informetric Research Group, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, UNSW Professor Peter Drahos, Research Fellow, RegNet, ANU Dr Suelette Dreyfus, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne Mr Peter Eckersley, IPRIA and Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, University of Melbourne Professor Brian Fitzgerald, Faculty of Law, QUT Dr Martin Gibbs, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne Ms Lisa Gye, Australian Centre for Emerging Technologies and Society Swinburne Associate Professor Michael Gilding, Australian Centre for Emerging Technologies and Society, Swinburne Professor Stevan Harnad, School of Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton Mr Benjamin Mako Hill, Software in the Public Interest/Debian Dr Tim Hubbard, Head, Human Genome Analysis , Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Assistant Professor Dan Hunter, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania Dr Andrew Kenyon, Melbourne Law School Professor Stephen King, Melbourne Business School Ms Miranda Lee, Australian Digital Alliance Dr Tim Mansfield, UTS / Distributed Systems Technology Centre Associate Professor Jim McGovern, School of Computer Science and Information Technology, RMIT Dr Scott McQuire, Media & Communications Program, Melbourne Andrian Miles, RMIT Associate Professor Elspeth Probyn, Department of Gender Studies, University of Sydney Dr Matthew Rimmer, Faculty of Law, ANU Mr Ned Rossiter, School of Humanities, Communications and Social Sciences, Monash Dr Rens Scheepers, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne Professor Liz Sonenberg, Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne Professor Leon Sterling, Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, University of Melbourne Professor David Vaver, Oxford Intellectual Property Institute Ms Kim Weatherall, IPRIA and Melbourne Law School Associate Professor Connie Wilson, Bibliometric and Informetric Research Group, School of Information Systems, Technology and Management, UNSW |