Today: Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities

Today I'll lead a workshop with James Baker in Oxford as part of he DH Crowdscribe Project's Promoting Interdisciplinary Engagement in the Digital Humanities AHRC Collaborative Skills series.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute: #dhsi2014 in Text and Numbers

I created some charts from the data and then I used some of the findings to create a poster/infographic with some quantitative stuff about the archive. As usual I have uploaded it to figshare.

Digital Humanities Summer Institute 2014: A #dhsi2014 Archive

This week I archived tweets from the Digital Humanities Summer Institute. (2-6 June 2014). I have uploaded to fighsare an .XLS file containing an archive of tweets tagged with #dhsi2014 , including other goodies.

At the LSE Impact of Social Sciences Blog: Publicly available data from Twitter does not constitute an “ethical dilemma”.

The Impact Blog of the London School of Economics and Political Science has published today my post from yesterday ("Twitter as Public Evidence and the Ethics of Twitter Research") under the title Publicly available data from Twitter is public evidence and does not constitute an “ethical dilemma”.

ACLAIIR AGM & Seminar 2014 – OPEN ACCESS: The future of academic publication?

Looking forward to participating in the ACLAIIR AGM & Seminar 2014 in Cambridge on Open Access: “The future of academic publication?” (17 June 2014).

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AGM 2014 wordle picJoin us in Cambridge for the ACLAIIR AGM & Seminar 2014, the topic of which is Open Access. We are pleased to welcome speakers from a variety of areas to give their perspectives on OA and its impact on the world of research, teaching and publishing.

Speakers: Ellen Collins (OAPEN UK); Daniel Pearce (CUP); Dr. Rupert Gatti (Open Book Publishers); Dr. Martin Eve (University of Lincoln); Dr. Ernesto Priego (City University, London); Dr. Jenny Bunn (University College, London)

Open Access is curently a hot topic across the globe due to its wide-ranging effects. Many policies and practices are in a state of rapid change, so we hope you will join us to keep up to date with this important subject and contribute to the debate.

The full programme including speaker profiles and registration form are available on our Events page. Please register by Monday 9 June to secure your place!

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Twitter as Public Evidence and the Ethics of Twitter Research

Scientific American asks: "Is the use of Twitter as a research tool ethical, given that its users do not intend to contribute to research?" I say: yes.