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March 2013

Having as enjoyable a day as one can when on methotrexate: getting all Orbit articles 100% NLM-journal-tagset-compliant.

In fact, it's just a totally cynical nostalgic marketing of protest implying "look at those past protests for real issues". So disappointing

Gather possession order served against @occupysussex. Interesting how, at graduation though, @sussexuni is proud to show history of protest.

Massive technical problem with @britishlibrary announcement system. It's replaying an amplified drilling noise through the reading rooms!

If you don't take advantage of digital preservation mechanisms, how can you complain about permanence? #ECHIC2013

Damousi speaking on permanence of digital resources. Nobody has mentioned CLOCKSS, LOCKSS or Portico. #ECHIC2013

Damousi notes the importance of quality control in online publication. What about Shirky's "filter failure"? #ECHIC2013

Future of the book: if the best scholarship is being done elsewhere in other forms, that's the new book says Joy Damousi #ECHIC2013

Really enjoying Schreibman and Edmond's talk at #ECHIC2013 - on how we evaluate digital humanities scholarship.

a DOI after the linking object is published, is there an obligation to update the link? How would we know about the new DOI?

Quick CrossRef question... There's an obligation for publishers to use DOIs for links when available. If another publisher assigns...

Speaking at Nottingham on the future of the scholarly book tomorrow. There /was/ quite a bit of Marx in there already, but now w/ added Gove

This is a far better way to get the news than reading the stuff itself! Thanks @respros, @jonhickman, @drdaveobrien and @ambrouk

Can somebody briefly tell me what Gove has written in the Mail so that I, too, can be angry, but without visiting the Mail?

If not, I might start hacking this together. As far as I can see, the current transforms don't do bibliographies, though (which is a PITA).

Quick q: has anybody developed the TEI xsl-fo transform to produce aesthetically nice hums PDF journal articles? I've done this for NLM...

Speaking on digital media alongside a great lineup tomorrow at City University! @ElizaTalks, @TranscriBentham, @ndalyrose. @ernestopriego

Spent this afternoon preparing a talk for #CityLIS next Friday, which should be enjoyable. That and visiting a pet shop to look at hamsters.

Slightly passive aggressive tweet: love it when somebody treats you like an idiot in an email because they've misunderstood the issue.

Take it that Pope Francis will be selling off the obscene wealth of the Vatican, then, to help the poor? We'll see...

I always find the "making slides/presentation" component to be the least enjoyable part of giving a lecture. Love the writing bit.

So I'm going to roll my own Tiny Tiny RSS instance to replace Google Reader. Wondering if I should wean myself off Gmail also...

Good comment on article: "How about retrospective legislation to claw back money from private-public partnerships, bankers & politicians?"

A great time speaking at Sussex today with great people. @filmstudiesff, @chriskeene, @jharvell and many more. Dinner with @liannedemello!

Don't quite get this "RCUK decision tree is confusing" stuff. Sure, it's different, but following a flowchart isn't that hard...

Outcome of hospital today good. Funding application submitted to local authority for Tocilizumab, a monoclonal antibody against IL-6. #rheum

Wouldn't the long view be to point out how regimes have historically changed from moderate to genocidal extreme in short time period?

Guardian piece on how we should accept changing standards of privacy worries me. Especially as it urges us to "take the long view".

How can two different news sites report the same news in such diametrically opposed ways? (I know, I know: don't answer that)

Not entirely sure what the picture of George Orwell hung in this Pizza Express is supposed to symbolize. Am I being watched?

Suspect I should have done that in more detail, but feel it's well covered elsewhere (and have a billion other things to do today!)

A few people pointing out that I neglected to mention specific problems of Finch in implementation of OA in that post.

If you think that people should have to get your permission to cite you. Well, I don't know where to begin. Publisher FUD I suspect.

Things are getting done. Lecture on Riddley Walker: sorted. Talk for Sussex Seminar: ready. Lecture on Waters' Affinity: getting there!

Good to see that, a full day before @GdnHigherEd panel on women & HE, there's a troll screaming "blame teh womenz for having babies".

Sure, there's no manager telling us at the moment and OA policy fears are of institutional direction, but policy just shows extant truth.

Aren't we already coerced by structures into publishing in the historically prestigious journals based on brand? Doesn't sound free to me.

Need to blog about this, but I have a problem with the academic freedom article. I'm not sure we currently have it.

Whenever writing/speaking about the gatekeeper function, I want to jam in references to the keymaster. #bustingmakesmefeelgood

Don't currently have time to do a citation analysis as thorough as @pj_webster's, but I'd anticipate a high rate of monograph citations.

Not sure I'd class Waters' Affinity as a crime novel. The fact it won a best translated crime award in 2004 makes me query the translation!

Today struck a sponsorship deal with the word "wonderful". Teaching /The Black Album/, meetings with good people and a drink with @heresfinn

Teevan addressing notions of the limits of liberalism and liberal thought while acknowledging moral dilemmas #bbkiraq

Teevan on notions of freedom, quoting Taliban leader (I think): "your freedom doesn't give us the freedom to reject your freedom" #bbkiraq

Norton-Taylor suggests that theatre can be just an extension of investigatory journalism. I think this can be problematic... #bbkiraq

Teevan pitched to BBC: I think I know what's going to happen (re Iraq) because Xenophon wrote about it 3000 years ago! #bbkiraq

Next at #bbkiraq is a panel on Iraq on stage and screen with Colin Teevan, David Loyn and Richard Norton-Taylor

Dinnen points out commercial platform and framing of these Iraq videos are shown. "Click to buy track on Google play" #bbkiraq

Dinnen points out that YouTube videos made by US soldiers is "a war away from a war" - created in downtime #bbkiraq

Dinnen examining "Refresh Refresh" - tale of young boys refreshing their email, waiting for news of their soldier fathers #bbkiraq

NB this is done critically but interesting for tie in with Mickwitz' previous point of personal and public identities #bbkiraq

McBean examining a Bechdel strip "Metaphor as Illness" that uses the Iraq War, specifically, to talk about personal cancer #bbkiraq

McBean shifts frame to Bechdel's "Dykes to Watch Out For" as one more closely related to the Iraq War #bbkiraq

McBean relating Bechdel's Fun Home to Oppenheim's Iraqi sunsets - both frequently use the intruding hand to unite two temporalities #bbkiraq

Oppenheim and "the sun is always setting somewhere else" being discussed by McBean. Transposes Iraqi sunsets onto US perspectives #bbkiraq

Zara Dinnen and Sam McBean on next, talking on locating the Iraq War in contemporary visual culture #bbkiraq

Mickwitz now using the notion of critical utopia/dystopia as a way of framing potential - a la Tom Moylan #bbkiraq

Mickwitz arguing, along with McCracken, for the formation of identities through the personal and impersonal in contemporary fiction #bbkiraq

Interestingly, the presentation of DMZ seems to be similar to the interior exteriority framed by an earlier panel #bbkiraq

Nina Mickwitz now taking over from @contemporaryfic to talk about DMZ comics - demilitarised zone. #bbkiraq

"sense of the nation" privileged over accuracy of image in Mirzoeff's theorisation of war, says @contemporaryfic #bbkiraq

Southland Tales also plays on remediation, argues @contemporaryfic, but this is specifically framed in a post-cinematic mode #bbkiraq

. @contemporaryfic talking about Dan Goldman and "Shooting War", which specifically foregrounds remediation.

Now we have @contemporaryfic up at #bbkiraq, speaking on comic and graphic novel representations of the Iraq War.

En route to Birkbeck to talk about representation of the second Iraq War. I'll be dealing with Don DeLillo.