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Though I have been critical of https://www.academia.edu/ I can also see good, and I greatly appreciate the feature where people can comment on why they want to download an author’s paper. When an...
View ArticleCrafting the past-resources and chapter
http://www.digit2017.com/discover/ See esp http://www.digit2017.com/discover/crafting-the-past/resources-crafting-the-past/ I met Jeff Saunders last year at the Interactive pasts conference, he and...
View Article“power of archives” food for thought.
We regularly hear about the ‘power of the archive’ and know about the importance of the archive for accountability and identity within our societies. But do we ever actually stop to think about the...
View ArticleUpdated UK/France/QATAR itinerary
Still being planned (Newcastle is still a tbc): Mo We 20-22/11 UCL QATAR, workshop and talk on 3D and the archives Th Fr 23-24/11 AM only UNESCO Paris Mo 27 Glasgow Tu 28 am session at School of...
View ArticleCybermaps in 3D heritage
A journal asked that I respond to a paper that briefly mentions the above. Notes to self include these general questions that I seldom find answers to in virtual heritage papers and not mentioned in my...
View ArticleNew edited book out
Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities (Hardback) – Routledge Cultural Heritage Infrastructures in Digital Humanities Edited by Agiatis Benardou, Erik Champion, Costis Dallas, Lorna...
View ArticleDigital Humanities 2017 tech talk
I was one of 3 presenters to give a talk at the below (today) My slides are at https://www.slideshare.net/nzerik/computing-3d-models-and-intangible-heritage Dr Miller spoke about Paradisec (and VR...
View ArticleIntangible and Invisible, Canberra 20.10.2017
Intangible and Invisible, Canberra 2017 Recognising intangible cultural heritage in place Friday 20 October, 1.30pm-4.15pm Museum of Australian Democracy at Old Parliament House, Canberra The Australia...
View ArticleThe problem with player-focused virtual heritage
In February 2016, Mathew Tyler-Jones wrote (about my Critical Gaming book): There’s only one point I take issue with. Drawing from this blog, he says: Playing in a digitally simulated world can leave...
View ArticleCultural Presence in 2002
I presented this paper at the Presence 2002 conference in Porto, Portugal. Bits were conveyed in Playing With The Past, but the initial ideas have been taken up and applied by others beyond my original...
View Article#CFP CHRC Annual Meeting: The GLAMorous Humanities | November 9-10 @ ANU...
Join us in at the Australian National University in Canberra for the Australasian Consortium of Humanities Research Centres’ 2017 Annual Meeting with the theme of The GLAMorous Humanities: Working with...
View ArticleAugmented reality development: ARKit or ARCore?
Augmented reality is both promising and cutting edge, even interaction paradigms may need to change: There are two new major augmented reality frameworks, one for Apple iOS (see Peter Jackson’s Wingnut...
View ArticleCFPs
*START* DUE CONFERENCE THEME LOCATION 30-Nov-17 21-Jul-17 DCH2017 Digital Cultural Heritage Manchester UK 07-Mar-18 05-Nov-17 DHN2018 Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries Helsinki Finland...
View ArticleFidus Writer
This is an online writing app that allows you to automatically reference then export into various academic-friendly format. Collaborative editing. Open source as far as I can see. Fidus Writer is an...
View ArticleFree UT (Unreal game engine) assets
I’m having some trouble finding suitable Unreal engine assets for an intern to use the latest Unreal engine on our (stereo) cylinder and semi-dome at Curtin, but in the meantime.. UPDATE: here is the...
View ArticleErik’s conferencing planning
Notes to myself on some conferences to consider or prepare for in 2018: *START* CONFERENCE LOCATION THEME Have paper? Will go? 11-Apr-18 VHN2018 Dublin Ireland Virtual Heritage Network Not unless...
View ArticleFred Brooks Jnr 2002
In Portugal at a Presence conference, Fred Brooks Jnr (or Wikipedia), famous for an article on the slowness of software development) said something very important: when doing your research predict what...
View ArticleAnnouncement: This blog is under review..by me
I have been surprised and charmed by the number of overseas strangers who tell me they read this blog but the recent shockingly untrue adverts wordpress are running on this blog have given me pause....
View ArticleCritical Archaeological Gaming Workshop UCLA
The Critical Archaeological Gaming Workshop was held 25-26 January at UCLA Los Angeles and I was lucky enough to be invited (at short notice). Luckily LA is only two flights for me, one via the...
View ArticleCFPs
*START* DUE CONFERENCE THEME LOCATION 11-Apr-18 02-Feb-18 VHN2018 Virtual Heritage Network Dublin Ireland 02-May-18 15-Feb-18 Best Practices Best Practices in World Heritage: Archeology (blog) Menorca...
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