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Public talk, 12 October, Valetta Malta
Image By Frank Vincentz – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31999344 Title: Talk on Game Design, Virtual Heritage and Digital History by Professor Erik Champion...
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Kinect GUI for Minecraft and others..
In Semester 1 (March to June) and from July Karen Miller of the Library Makerspace and Information Studies and myself are ‘clients’ for Curtin software engineering students. Their brief is to build a...
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Supporting digital scholarship in the humanities
31 August, I was part of a panel in Curtin’s research week to discuss digital scholarship. And from my notes I was asked to email here are some of my suggestions that might be of some interest and not...
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PhD Scholarships-Cultural Heritage & Visualisation
There are 2 PhD scholarships now open at Curtin University, for students interested in 3D models of heritage sites, community participation, heritage issues and preservation of the 3D models...
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Digital scholarship, makerspaces and libraries
Originally posted on infoliterati: I first came across the concept of ‘digital scholarship’ around 3 years ago when I was the Faculty Librarian for Humanities at Curtin University and first learned...
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How do you create past-ness through place?
I remember walking though Berlin once. I didn’t know the exact history of where I was but I could ‘feel’ it. That night I researched where I had been and the associated events. I was right, I had been...
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PhD Scholarships at Curtin University
The call for PhD scholarships (UNESCO Cultural Heritage and Visualisation) at Humanities, Curtin University, has now been extended to 17 October 2016. See...
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Research Fellow Opportunity
UNESCO Research Fellow in Cultural Heritage & Visualisation, Curtin University. Direct Link here or at the Curtin University Vacancies, Perth, Western Australia. The role starts in 2016. Position...
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talk in Malta tomorrow: ‘Role of computer games in national heritage’
if you are in Valetta, stop by at 6PM, I am talking about computer games and history/archaeology....
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How many journals should you review for?
If like me you are asked every week or so to review for a journal, then I have the following suggestion (for both of us). Write to the best journal in your field that you wish to support (after all,...
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Curtin Cultural Makathon
Hack/slash/cut/bash/scrape/mod/mash – it’s a culture thing Join the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts and Curtin Library Makerspace to hack cultural datasets and heritage information. Use...
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Book Chapter Abstract
Book Chapter For Book On Computational Archaeology, redTDPC, INAM, Mexico Title: A Schematic Division of Game-Learning Strategies Relevant to Digital Archaeology and Digital Cultural Heritage Abstract...
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What are the Big (not only Grand) Challenges in Virtual Heritage?
Seems to me we leave this sort of topic to keynote speakers who almost accidentally argue for a field/issue/method/tool that they themselves (research centre, department) and associates are currently...
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Curtin Cultural Makathon 11 Nov 2016
Hack/slash/cut/bash/scrape/mod/mash – it’s a culture thing Join the School of Media, Culture and Creative Arts and Curtin Library Makerspace to hack cultural datasets and heritage information. Use...
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Notes to self: Parkour History and Assassin’s Creed
Notes to self on the above game. How can the parkour mechanic of Assassins Creeed be better utilised? The game does not have an editor You cannot export assets Can you game play with an avatar Can you...
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WebTundra based VirtualOulu at Web3D Conference
Originally posted on realXtend: University of Oulu’s realXtend Tundra & Webtundra based VirtualOulu environment was presented and analyzed at Web3D 2016, presented in late July in Anaheim,...
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New Journal Article Published
I have a new article out online: Digital humanities is text heavy, visualization light, and simulation poor, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, Oxford Journals,...
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Curtin Cultural Makathon
Thanks to a Curtin MCCA Strategic Grant six reseachers and Library staff at Curtin University bought Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality equipment and ran two events to help staff develop digital...
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Thoughts on Keynotes
I’ve been helping a conference or two lately on the topic of invited speakers and keynotes. I enjoy conferences where there are no keynotes and no parallel sessions (often because I can’t often tell my...
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Digra2015 paper in TODIGRA journal
Free online at http://todigra.org/index.php/todigra Worldfulness, Role-enrichment & Moving Rituals: ABSTRACT Roles and rituals are essential for creating, situating and maintaining cultural...
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